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Hyundai Testing New Chassis On The Nurburgring With Veloster Mule

Hyundai engineers are working with a new mule near the Nurburgring circuit. Fortunately for us, our spy photographers were there to capture the moment.
Hyundai Veloster chassis mule 15 photos
Photo: Stefan Baldauf/SB-Medien
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Our friends at SB-Medien have granted us with a full gallery of spy shots of the mysterious Hyundai Veloster prototype. To the naked eye, this car is a slightly modified Veloster being tested on German roads.

Once you take a closer look at the car, you will notice the unusual fitment of the front bumper, the bulging headlights, and the unusual way in which the alloy wheels “fill” the wheel wells.

The rear bumper hides an unusual exhaust, which has twin pipes, but neither of them is connected to the regular exhaust tip, fitted in the center of the fake rear diffuser.

You do not have to be a specialist in colors to notice that the bumpers and the body are painted in different shades, or the unusual body color itself. The only thing that does match this model is the way the doors fit, which do not seem to have been modified.

The front wheels hide a set of generously-sized brake discs, while those on the rear of the Veloster mule do not seem small, either. This mule could be employed by Hyundai’s N division, which is in charge of performance versions of the typical models in the range, in addition to the corporation’s WRC effort.

At this point, we must admit that there is a hidden corner in our souls that hopes the prototype you can observe in the photo gallery is a mule for the Hyundai RM16 N Concept.

The latter was a rear-wheel-drive version of the Veloster, which featured a 2.0-liter turbocharged engine that provided 300 HP and 383 Nm (282 lb-ft). Hyundai’s N Division developed the one-off, but we do not expect it to be replicated in the form of the prototype shown in the photo gallery of this article.
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Sebastian's love for cars began at a young age. Little did he know that a career would emerge from this passion (and that it would not, sadly, involve being a professional racecar driver). In over fourteen years, he got behind the wheel of several hundred vehicles and in the offices of the most important car publications in his homeland.
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