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2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 N First Drive: This Is Revolutionary

•    Auto123 gets in a first drive of the 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 N.

Seoul, South Korea – These days, it’s not often we can say a car is “revolutionary”. Changes are generally “evolutionary”. Even all-new cars usually carry a lot of the past with them. Think of the Nissan Z, or the new Volkswagen Golf GTI.

Here, though, after driving the performance N – not N-Line, but all-out N – version of the award-winning Ioniq 5 EV in South Korea, I am going to go there. Here’s why. 

See also: Los Angeles 2023: The 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 N Makes its Debut

Design of the 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 N – 9.5/10

Let’s start here. There’s little question the N is, indeed, an Ioniq 5. You have the digital origami-like cuts across the doors, you have the pixel-style taillamps and you have the glowering front end. But beyond that, we’re on another plane.

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