200hp - check Mechanical LSD - check Manual gearbox - check Sub 1200kg - check Under £25k - check Hyundai knew EXACTLY who this car was for and made sure every critical requirement was met. Had mine for 9 months and it genuinely made me smile every time I got in it... Even if it was just to drive to the local Tesco (where it'd always get attention in the car park!). Only sold it because we longer need 2 cars, though I managed to get my full deposit back plus an extra couple of hundred, but as soon as we're in a position of needing a car each again, I'll be looking at another... There isn't going to be another car like it again.
200 bhp is practically nothing.... My hatchback is 350bhp and that doesnt feel that fast. Ford and most other companys are going electric this is why they dropped it..
@@ogloftus im not saying its not. im addressing mr 200 bhp is enough for british roads which it isnt even close to 200bhp being the limit for the roads.
I’ve had mine for about a year now , every now and then these review videos pop up on my feed and I check them out to remind myself why I love it. The things I take for granted now I forget aren’t standard in all cars. The feeling of my i20N around corners let’s me have fun on my drive to work. Love this thing.
I think this car has real character above all else - love mine to bits - had it since July. You can throw it about and have so much fun in it, but you still feel so safe in the way that it hugs those bends!
@@jackiechanboy11 Just over £26000 - it was someone else's cancelled order and has Phantom Black paintwork and a Bose sound system as extras. The price he quotes in the review is the base price. Still excellent value for what you get!
Hyundai makes the best hot hatches ever period. All things considered the Veloster N is arguably the greatest hot hatch ever (in the US). It was Road & Track Performance Car of the Year, in it's very first year of production, something no other hot hatch has ever won, let alone a car under $100k. The VN DCT was the fastest FWD car that Car and Driver ever tested and anyone who's ever owned one knows it's the most fun car they've ever driven. "It's a $30k car that makes the Golf R irrelavent" Jason Cammisa
Absolutely agree with hot hatches needing to go back to basics of being small and fun. I've got a Golf R. My wife has a Fiesta ST. My Golf is the better car in every way yet when I'm given the choice of which car to take for a B road blat it's the Fiesta every time. I'm thinking of an I20n to replace the golf which is why I'm watching this.
@@ogloftus I have owned all three, mk7 st, mk8 st and a Mk7 Golf R manual with dcc in between. Personal favorite was the mk8 by far. Sucks that life got in its way of keeping it.
I ordered one in march and picked it up in June, driving it on a daily basis. The I20N's just a bang for the buck and after 5 month and almost 6k km my love keeps growing. You can go quiet and super efficiently, and then go all in and try to get the grin from your face afterwards.
I have i20N ca a year (11 months) and more and exited with that car and its generates more and more fun on roads and also on trak. It was worth to wait for that car - its best fun generator on the world 😀
This is an ultimate fun car, it's got a true sense of humour, it's nailed hot hatch 😊 The blue strip on the door is blue ambient lighting, it's gorgeous at night😍😍😍
Love Mine - gets louder in fruity when you run it in . Kona N is the wifes car Love it ... very addictive on the twisty roads (previously a Swift Sport Turbo )
The pop up message prompting you into selecting N mode when approaching a S bend can be simply turned off in the settings so shouldn’t be seen as a negative
I went to work for Hyundai in South Africa in 2013 and the first company wheels I got was a 1.4 i-20 "Fluid"...cheap, uninspiring but practical...I sold at least 5 of those a month, made target repeatedly and then got upgraded to the 1.4 CRDi...that little car was sooo much fun to drive compared to its stable mates...it didn`t have massive power but the added torque in a small lightweight package made it a little grin machine...let`s face it, in this overly regulated and oppressive world we now live in, what use can you really get day to day, on normal congested roads from any more than 150bhp...?
I have a love hate relationship with mine, driving in town with traffic it’s a very frustrating car to live with as it’s jerky and revs too high to crawl along smoothly. But this thing is designed to be driven very hard and when you get that opportunity it’s absolutely fabulous.
In town are you driving in Normal mode? I find that in Normal the throttle mapping is way to soft, which makes it quite awkward to drive smoothly. Weirdly in Eco mode the throttle is much sharper, so nowadays I'm either in Eco or N mode.
@@swesleyc7 Brilliant vehicle. No recalls, no power train issues. Only had a TPMS go in one wheel, and a climate system issue. And I put this car to work!
The UK gets all the fun cars. USA gets fat, slouchy SUV's that eat gas or need to be charged for 2600 hours after a 6min drive. They're trying to take the fun out of the cars. Mundane is what they want us to have. So feel lucky UK. You get all the fun it seems
@@Opera512 we already Lost the focus RS... Axed 2018.. ford fiesta STs / fiesta axed in 2023... And the Ford focus ST / focus will be scraped in 2025... Fun....... To replace them SUVs.. / electric
Sad thing that you will have to wait 13-14 months before it arrives, talked to my local dealer a few days ago think about order either the i30n or i20n, but that's too long to wait for a car
Same here, I ordered mine in march. Got told originally 3-6months. Now they tacked on another 2k to the price and have no idea on an estimated arrival date. Have a mate who ordered the week before me and she's had hers for 3 months now.
I have to admit I am a Fiesta ST owner and I love it to bits. The i20N may be a close match, but, sorry to say, I find it butt ugly. The looks are a100% show stopper in my book.
Fiesta ST all the way, any and every day. I've owned 82 cars and none were as engaging to drive anywhere near the price! Not to mention, you actually look back to admire it's handsome, cohesive design...as opposed to grimacing, looking back at the Hyundai 😖
Doesn't pipe any sound through the speakers! Uses a transducer under the windshield to add that awful sound, you can pop the cable off with a screwdriver and it's perfect!
Enough with bhp ots the fastest car in its class it destroys all the completion only the far more expensive and limited yaris is better there's such a thing as power to weight ratio and gearing and engine character the power to weight is BEST IN CLAS AND IT DESTROYS A ST IN PERFORMANCE AND THE POLO
Buy if you want an unreliable POS. People are already having transmission issues and not being covered under warranty. The old "you're beating on it" excuse of not covering warranty repairs.
It's borderline, at least in the UK where we have terrible roads. There's compliance to the suspension, so it doesn't crash over bumps, but you will know exactly what the road surface is like under the wheels whether you're in the mood or not. Personally I don't mind it, it shows a clear intent that this is purely a hot hatch and not trying to compromise like a lot of cars try and do nowadays.
A hyundai being the best hot hatch? Come on, be real, everybody knows hyundai makes cheap unreliable junk cars that are only being bought because they are cheap. not affordable, but cheap
I know it's shocking but the N cars really are something different. If you'd tell me 5 years ago that I would be buying a new Hyundai I would have laughed you out of the room, probably using the same rational you used. But the reality is pretty much every review of the I20N has said the same thing, that its fantastic, and now that I've owned one for a while I absolutely agree!
Sure, every motoring journalist around the world think its brilliant- but clearly you must know better. Right? Keep buying VW's see how you go with their after sales service - you probably deserve it.
