If you were to wake up one morning and decide that you wanted a hot hatch for some weekend driving adventures, where would your mind turn? Be honest, would you be likely to think of a Hyundai? After all, you’d be able to find plenty of Volkswagen GTIs or Honda Civic Type Rs, which are renowned for pushing engineering limits and setting some high bars. Yet Hyundai can certainly stand up against those icons with its quick, aggressive, and early-model, stick-shift Veloster N.
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