Hyundai RN22e Electrified High Performance EV

Описание: N is the official name of Hyundai’s high-performance brand. If you look at German carmakers like Mercedes AMG, BMW M, Audi RS, and Volkswagen R, it’s easy to see that the N stands for high performance. But, whereas these brands use R for their motorsport models, Hyundai’s ‘N’ represents two important elements. First, the Namyang district in South Korea, the birthplace of the N brand and location of Hyundai’s Global R&D Center. Second, the Nürburgring racetrack in Germany, which is home to Hyundai’s Technical Center which is used to test the N vehicles. Finally, the ‘N’ logo itself is also a representation of a classic chicane or tight serpentine turn in the road.

Hyundai’s high-performance N brand was born in 2012. It all started when Hyundai’s Namyang R&D Center brought together a whole new team of researchers to develop high-performance cars. A team of dedicated developers and car enthusiasts were selected, and they began to turn their dreams for a new kind of performance car into a reality in the form of N cars.

The last piece of the puzzle was to recruit a designated team to champion N brand. In 2012, Hyundai Motor Company hired a handful of elite research staffs and officially launched its high-performance center. That December, Albert Biermann, who had led the development of BMW’s high-performance cars, was hired as Executive Vice President and Head of Vehicle Test & High-Performance Development. Klaus Köster, a former member of Mercedes AMG, joined as director of the Hyundai Motor European Technical Center (HMETC)’s High-Performance Vehicle Development division in November 2015. Then, in March 2018, Thomas Schemera joined the team. Like Biermann, Schemera also began his career as an engineer at BMW gaining experience in purchasing, sales, product planning, and marketing.