Hyundai Veloster Turbo 1.6 TwinScroll

At the end of last year, we brought you spy photos of the Hyundai Veloster Turbo in light disguise, along with the first details that began appearing online. Today we are in a position to confirm the appearance of the Veloster Turbo at the Geneva show, with high expectations placed on the use of the TwinScroll turbo.

This Veloster, developed at the German technical centre in Rüsselsheim, features the 1.6 GDI engine, which gains 50 CV with the addition of the turbo, reaching 184 CV. But although the modifications to the Veloster make it a machine suited to plenty of hours of fun, some measures have been taken to keep fuel consumption at acceptable levels. For this reason, it incorporates direct injection, independent control of the intake and exhaust, and an air-to-air intercooler, which is not particularly sophisticated and is today the most common solution for cooling the air-fuel mixture.

Judging by the acceleration figures given for this Veloster Turbo, they are not exactly spectacular, but they fall within a normal range for this type of vehicle: 0 to 100 km/h in 8.4 seconds, beating the naturally aspirated Veloster by one second. Hyundai has also introduced some amenities typical of these models, such as steering that is quicker than in the non-turbo version and a suspension setup “adapted to the demands of European drivers”.

The gearbox fitted to the Veloster Turbo will be a six-speed manual, developed in-house by Hyundai, apparently with slightly longer ratios than in the model without turbo. For this reason, I get the impression that it is a little slow to accelerate according to the figures provided, although all of this in theory; before that, we must wait just a few more days to appreciate it more thoroughly in Geneva, and a little longer for our test team to carry out an in-depth road test.

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