What Makes Hyundai’s New IONIQ 5 N EV a True Monster Car

More than 35 years ago, Tom Cruise as “Maverick” Mitchell exclaimed, “I feel the need – the need for speed!” He was talking about fighter jets, but today those words could just as well apply to Hyundai’s new IONIQ 5 N, coming to Schomp Hyundai next March. Keep updated by signing up here.

As the Car and Driver review put it, “… the madmen within the N performance brand decided that anything worth doing is worth overdoing. The N treatment is far more than just a boost in power, a suspension return and some extraneous badging and spoilers.” Among other things, you’ll see the “N” everywhere in and on the 2025 IONIQ 5 N. 

The 2025 IONIQ 5 N is Hyundai’s fastest car yet – and it’s an all-electric monster car, with combined power of 641 horsepower that can deliver zero-to-60 mph in just over three seconds, do the quarter-mile in 11.2 seconds with a top speed of 162 mph. That doubles up on what the standard IONIQ 5 EV offers and its numerous awards point to how well it performs!

The 2025 IONIQ N doesn’t have a shabby estimated range, either: estimated at 195 miles with an estimated 74/80/70 MPGe fuel economy. It has a front and rear motor and front/rear direct-drive transmissions. 

This IONIQ N is lower by 0.79 inch, wider by 2.0 inches and longer by 3.2 inches and sports 21-inch wheels with Pirelli P Zero tires. The N-specific brakes are the brand’s most powerful ones yet. All-wheel drive is standard.

Here’s some other cool stuff:

• N Active Sound+ that, turned on, simulates the sounds of an ICE and can convince you you’re actually in a gas-powered fast car.
• N Torque Distribution allows the driver to vary where the power comes from – front, rear or both. It even has an “N-drift” mode in addition to Eco, Normal and Sport modes so the driver can choose between saving battery power or delivering max speed.
• N eShift offers the feel of a gas-powered cars’s dual-clutch transmission (even though it’s a single-speed direct-drive transmission) – complete with the simulated sounds of shifts and revs and paddle shifters
• Although it will be used mostly for street and road driving, the interior has the look of a track car with knee pads on the center console and side bolsters on the seats.
• The distinctive exterior sports contrasting black trim with orange touches and a rear spoiler.

Of course, there’s a lot more to the 2025 Hyundai IONIQ 5 N, and we’re waiting impatiently to have one to show in person (March can’t come soon enough!) For now, let this enthusiastic statement from MotorTrend.com sink in: “We love that Hyundai has taken steps to show a skeptical public that EVs can offer the same visceral thrills as an internal-combustion vehicle. … One thing is for sure: If you don’t think an EV can thrill, you must, must, must drive the Hyundai Ioniq 5 N. we think even the skeptics will find it as N-gaging as we did.”