The 2020 Hyundai Veloster Turbo—save your cash and buy the manual
The Hyundai Veloster is a quirky little car with dramatic styling that reminds me of a baby Audi RS7 from the front. [credit: Jonathan Gitlin ]
It's rare, but occasionally a car comes along that blows the socks off everyone who drives it. Often, that won't be too surprising-you hope that the latest midengined Ferrari or Porsche 911 GT3 is capable of removing foot coverings, considering how much they cost. Sometimes though, the automotive journalism world gets caught by surprise. A good recent example of that is the Hyundai Veloster N, a Nurburgring-tuned hot hatch that's garnered plenty of praise for its smile-to-dollar ratio. Unfortunately, that's not the Veloster were reviewing today. Instead, I just spent a week with that car's cheaper, less powerful stablemate-the 2020 Hyundai Veloster Turbo.
Well, I say cheaper. In fact, although the Veloster Turbo starts at $23,350 for the R-Spec, our test car was actually the Veloster Turbo Ultimate, a fully loaded $28,350 model that actually costs a few hundred dollars more than the Veloster N. But enough about the car I'm not reviewing-let's talk Veloster Turbo.
Like all Velosters, it's a quirky little car. I mean, how many other hatchbacks do you know with one door on the driver's side but two doors on the passenger side? Yes, it is asymmetrical, which must make things complicated at the Hyundai factory when it comes to making left- and right-hand-drive versions for different countries. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that, but to this particular eye, the Veloster beholds quite well. When viewed from low down-the automotive photographer's favorite angle-and painted in our test car's combo of Racing Red with glossy black trim, it's more than a little reminiscent of super-Audis like the RS6 and RS7-cars that cost $90,000 more.
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