It’s impossible to overstate how good Hyundai’s Elantra N is. The model just fot a facelift last year, and for 2025 Hyundai is making an already good thing even better by adding some motorsport-inspired bits to a new special-edition Elantra N. Called the Hyundai Elantra N TCR Edition, it’s inspired by the Elantra N that competes in the Touring Car Racing (TCR) series.
TCR vehicles are usually production-based sport compacts from a variety of companies, with everything from Hyundai and Honda to Audi and Lynk & Co competing. Engine sizes range from 1.7 to 2.0 liters, and all are turbocharged. The Elantra N is Hyundai’s third entry in the series, having debuted in TCR with the i30 in 2017.
The biggest difference for the TCR Edition is its massive carbon-fiber rear wing. The lightweight swan-neck wing is completely adjustable, and Hyundai says it provides optimum downforce. Other changes included lightweight 19-inch forged wheels and four-piston monoblock N Performance brakes. Inside there’s a special racing inspired Alcantara steering wheel with Hyundai N’s signature Performance Blue color denoting the 12 o’clock position, seat belts in the same color and TCR Edition badges. Bigger changes come for Hyundai’s home market of South Korea. KDM Elantra N TCR Editions get huge Hyundai N logo decals in black, white and red that cover the rear doors.
Joon Park, Vice President of N Brand Management Group, says the Elantra N TCR edition is a culmination of the brand’s motorsport experience. “Hyundai Motor has incorporated the experience and expertise accumulated in motorsports into ELANTRA N TCR Edition,” he said in a statement.
Hyundai says the TCR will go on sale in South Korea in December; other markets around the world, including the U.S., will have to wait until sometime next year. Hyundai isn’t talking pricing just yet, but it’s safe to assume that the Elantra N TCR Edition will come close to, if not crest the $40,000 mark, considering that a new Elantra N with the automatic transmission is already over $36,000.