The high-performance Hyundai Ioniq 5N has been confirmed to be coming to Gran Turismo 7’s next update in an announcement that was hidden in plain sight.
We have been expecting some Hyundai models for a while now, since the Korean marque announced a collaboration with Gran Turismo over the summer. Although that was only really flagged as a “various sim racing activities” deal, it seemed inevitable that there’d be some content making its way into GT7 before too long.
That has now been confirmed in a pretty strange manner which it appears passed just about everyone by, and connected to the Viewers Gift campaign for the 2024 Gran Turismo World Series World Finals in early December.
In all the web versions of this announcement, the reward for watching the Nations Cup stream is shown as a nicely wrapped, square box with “to be announced” displayed below it. However it transpires that the in-game version of this story is rather different.
Rather than this placeholder image of the web variant, both the thumbnail and the article itself in-game show the Hyundai Ioniq 5N as clear as day, and — somehow — just about everyone missed until it was flagged up today…
The rest of the information holds as before: the reward “will be delivered after the next update”. At present we don’t know when that update will be — we don’t even know what month it’ll be — but there’s a chance it could be towards the very end of December, perhaps even on December 26 as the final Thursday of the month per the usual update scheduling.
As for the car itself, the IONIQ 5N (as it’s styled in real life) has been very well received by the motoring press around the world, with many dubbing it the first truly enthralling electric performance car. It’s a dual-motor car, delivering 641hp to all four wheels — with a rearward bias — and a “simulated automatic gearbox” that mimics traditional gear changes, though you can revert to a more typical EV mode.
The 5N shares a lot of its underpinnings with the sibling Genesis GV60 — from the Gran Turismo World Series partner brand — and KIA EV6 GT, the latter of which was recently refreshed with the 5N’s motors and that gearbox feature, and would be a welcome addition to the game too. Meanwhile the GV60 is slated for a “Magma” performance model soon.
Thanks to Islaygaz, who was the first to flag this on our forums!
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