Hyundai Veloster
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6 model years with exact configuration records. Latest available year: 2021, with 5 listed configurations.
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The Hyundai Veloster is a front-wheel-drive sport compact built in Ulsan, South Korea, and sold in the United States from the 2012 through the 2022 model year as the spiritual replacement for the Tiburon. Its defining feature is an asymmetrical 3+1-door layout — one long door on the driver's side, two shorter ones on the passenger side, plus a rear hatch — a configuration otherwise found mainly on vans and commercial vehicles. Because the big door is always on the driver's side, right-hand-drive markets get a mirror-image body, and American passengers always step out onto the curb.
The first-generation FS car rode on the Hyundai-Kia PB platform and ran from the 2012 through the 2017 U.S. model years, using a 1.6-liter Gamma direct-injected four rated at 132–138 hp and, from 2013 on, a 201-hp 1.6-liter Gamma II turbo. Hyundai skipped the 2018 model year in America entirely while it readied the second-generation JS car, which shares its bones with the European i30 and arrived for 2019 with a new 147-hp 2.0-liter Nu four, standard multi-link rear suspension, torque-vectoring control and standard forward-collision warning, lane-keeping assist and driver-attention monitoring. The 275-hp Veloster N launched alongside it as the first Hyundai N model sold in America. Citing slow sales, Hyundai dropped every Veloster except the N for 2022, and the N followed it out of the lineup after that year.
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