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Hyundai N Boss Declares Affordable Performance EVs as Top Priority
The Hyundai Ioniq 5 is a great electric vehicle, but the version we really want to drive is the Ioniq 5 N. After all, it makes more than 600 hp and can hit 60 mph in the low-three-second range while also behaving like a “corner rascal” on the track. We’re just not under any illusion that any Jalopnik staffers will…
Hyundai’s Determination to Win Pikes Peak | Giga Gears
Hyundai announced on March 1 that it would be tackling the 102nd running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb this June with a massive four-car effort. The Korean automaker is bringing a quartet of Ioniq 5 N racers to the hill, and judging by the drivers it has selected for its team, it is looking to break the…
“600 HP EV Kia Stinger Replacement with 500 Mile Range: Report”
If you’re like me, you’re still mourning the loss of the Kia Stinger. With the Stinger gone, the EV6 GT is carrying the performance torch for the Kia brand. But if a new report out of Korea is to be believed, that torch is going to get passed really soon to a new performance EV.
How Top Automakers Got Their Names | Giga Gears
Carmaker names are not nearly as celebrated as carmaker logos but they’re just as rich in heritage, both good and bad. Automobiles have been around since the late 1700s, but they didn’t take off until after the Industrial Revolution. World Wars I and II would catapult auto manufacturing into what we know today: a…
“Workers at Hyundai’s Alabama Plant Seek Unionization Amidst Low Wages and Job Insecurity”
Automotive workers in the American south are on the verge of ushering in a new era of unionized solidarity. Just weeks after workers in a Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Mercedes-Benz facility began campaigning to unionize, similar efforts are taking off at Hyundai’s plant just two hours away in Montgomery. Workers in the plant…