Hello, welcome to the Carcaste, I'm at Motorizer, the Andrew here with Alex

Grabweber for the Carcast Edmonds podcast.

Oh, it's kind of an interesting week of car news.

There's a lot going on this week.

It seems slow for a while that all of a sudden it's just kind of popping this this past week or so.

One of the things I wanted to get into was the Hyundai Ionic 5N and we brought this up several times. This was something that we saw at the

LA Auto Show and it was really kind of one of the cars for us both that we thought

would be one of the most exciting to drive get an opportunity

to get behind the wheel of this thing and see how it how it goes really kind of utilizing

the EV platform for performance I know everyone's going after range and whatnot but

putting it in a performance package which you only normally see really from the super car companies right using using you know from accurate

NSX and McLaren and in in the high-end cars like P1 and La Ferrari, but putting it into a car that's much more affordable.

I just thought it was kind of a fun idea to see what they can do with it.

I, you know, Portia is doing it, but...

We should start at the beginning actually, because I think the N-brand is really interesting.

We've seen like a Lanther End, things like that, but Hyundai, the whole Hyundai and Kia Car Company and Genesis have been really good at hiring top people, designers, engineers and then empowering them to get on with the job.

And this N division is basically, when you think of Hyundai N, this is not just badge

engineering, this is like a serious play to have a performance

brand so you've got to think of it like Ford Performance like BMW or M Power and that's

really not stretching it that is kind of where they where they are and they hired a really senior figure from

BMW Empower who recently retired but they also there was a guy I worked, guy called Toro and Johnson I worked

with on the, I shot a documentary years ago on the development of Focus

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