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Hyundai wants you to remember its N" performance arm exists, so at this month"s Busan International Motor Show in South Korea, it revealed this: the RM16.RM stands for Racing Midship" us neither after Project RM, which kicked off in 2012 with the aim of testing and refining "high-performance technologies" for use in future Hyundai road cars. The N" sub-brand followed in September 2015.The 16 comes after the RM14, RM15 and insane N 2025 Vision Gran Turismo Concept from the Frankfurt Motor Show. It has a mid-mounted 2.0-litre four, which drives the rear wheels through a six-speed manual gearbox and electronic limited-slip diff". An electric supercharger and special variable exhaust mean it makes around 300bhp, which is plenty. The body is carbon-fibre reinforced plastic draped over an aluminium space frame.Hyundai says RM cars act as kind-of rolling test-beds for its forthcoming N cars. Does this mean it"s giving us mid-engined hot-hatches a la Renault Clio V6? Unlikely, but we can dream. Share this page: FacebookTwitterGoogle+WhatsAppMailtoCopy link
Date written: 2 Jun 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 3689
Hyundai wants you to remember its N" performance arm exists, so at this month"s Busan International Motor Show in South Korea, it revealed this: the RM16.RM stands for Racing Midship" us neither after Project RM, which kicked off in 2012 with the aim of testing and refining "high-performance technologies" for use in future Hyundai road cars. The N" sub-brand followed in September 2015.The 16 comes after the RM14, RM15 and insane N 2025 Vision Gran Turismo Concept from the Frankfurt Motor Show. It has a mid-mounted 2.0-litre four, which drives the rear wheels through a six-speed manual gearbox and electronic limited-slip diff". An electric supercharger and special variable exhaust mean it makes around 300bhp, which is plenty. The body is carbon-fibre reinforced plastic draped over an aluminium space frame.Hyundai says RM cars act as kind-of rolling test-beds for its forthcoming N cars. Does this mean it"s giving us mid-engined hot-hatches a la Renault Clio V6? Unlikely, but we can dream. Share this page: FacebookTwitterGoogle+WhatsAppMailtoCopy link
Date written: 2 Jun 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 3689
