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Everyday Driver Car Debate

TestDrive: Hyundai KONA N

Everyday Driver Car Debate

Everyday Driver

Leisure, Hobbies, Automotive

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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The KONA N test drive. Write to us with your Car Debates, Car Conclusions, and Topic Tuesdays at everydaydrivertv@gmail.com or everydaydriver.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey look, we're in the cone of N. Yep. This is the hot version. This is the car that you need.

0:05.5

This is the only car that you will ever need forever and ever. Wow. Okay. SUV versatility.

0:11.6

And you can take it on track. And if your only car gets good gas mileage, it's small enough to park it.

0:16.8

You will never need another car. This does it all. Are you riding the marketing brief for this car? No,

0:21.9

I read the marketing. Oh, there you go. That makes more sense. Okay. Yes. That is that is exactly

0:26.4

what's going on. The key thing to think about here is this is the penultimate result penultimate

0:33.7

of us going by SUVs. What's combination? Yes, it is the final straw because here's what's

0:40.7

happened because the whole world wants SUVs and maybe we all want them or maybe we just thought

0:46.3

he wanted a coconut smile. That was years ago. That includes years ago. Now we all want SUVs and we

0:52.8

don't want them to color nobody. These are key. All right. Because the US specifically has an

0:58.6

aversion to wagons. What's happening now is they're even taking away the hot hatchbacks. Yeah.

1:05.3

Because this is the entire running gear of the Hyundai Veloster in which we really like. Now I will admit

1:12.0

the Hyundai Veloster in is a weird three door thing. I understand that. But ultimately what is it?

1:15.9

It's a hot hatchback. Yeah. And Hyundai first killed the Veloster and left the Veloster in.

1:21.2

Now they are killing the Veloster in. And if you want the closest thing they now sell the Veloster in.

1:25.7

It's now this the Kona M. I like this car. It's good. I like that it exists. I like that N is now

1:33.8

very special Nomenclature from Hyundai. I like that it means developed in Nambyang and developed

1:40.5

on the Nürburgring. Yes. And stands for so many things. It does. Most of all performance. And

1:46.2

nobody is ready for this because you're probably most people on the road think,

1:50.2

oh, a little SUV hatchbacky thing. And then you're gone. Yes. You can beat pretty much everybody

1:57.0

off the line. Well, there's a little bit of turbo lag and the car can't quite decide if you're

2:01.2

serious or not. And then if you stick your foot in it and you keep it there, it knows your

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