Krafcik Confirms Turbocharged Hyundai Veloster to Debut at Detroit Auto Show
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Krafcik Confirms Turbocharged Hyundai Veloster to Debut at Detroit Auto Show
As we reported back in January, Hyundai will be launching a turbocharged Veloster in 2012 as a 2013 model. Hyundai CEO John Krafcik made the announcement today at SEMA where he also announced the car's public reveal: The 2012 Detroit Auto Show.
Boost will come not from the 2.0-liter found in things like our Optima SX Turbo, but rather from the new 1.6-liter T-GDI. This turbocharged and direct-injection four-cylinder makes 208 horsepower at 6,000 rpm and 195 pound-feet of torque at 1,600 to 5,000 rpm. The engine is ULEV-2 certified. But we knew that.
Currently, the Hyundai Veloster makes do with a 138-horsepower, naturally aspirated 1.6-liter that produces only 123 pound-feet of torque. Adequate is a good word to describe how that feels lugging around the rather light 2,740-pound Veloster. (You can read more about that, of course, in our first drive on the naturally-aspirated Veloster.)
These renderings of the turbo Veloster take what we've gathered from spy photos (1,2), and pile them onto an existing Veloster, which Takahashi has gone and painted a vibrant orange instead of spy-camo black. We'll be surprised if the production version doesn't look very similar.
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