2021 Hyundai Elantra N Line Sedan Teased: Here Are 3 Safe Assumptions
Hyundai has released teaser images of its first-ever Elantra N Line sedan, a little over a month after the redesigned 2021 Elantra sedan debuted virtually. There aren’t many details about the upcoming, sportier Elantra N Line, which we’ve known about since the unveiling, but we can suss out three (obvious) generalizations.
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1. It Will Be More Powerful
Duh. Just how much more powerful is unknown, but the non-N-Line Elantra will have two engine options: a 147-horsepower, 2.0-liter four-cylinder gas engine and a hybrid 1.6-liter four-cylinder gas engine with an electric motor and a 32-kilowatt lithium-ion battery, good for 139-hp total system output. Hyundai’s current engine lineup includes a turbocharged 1.6-liter four-cylinder making 201 hp, which seems like a solid candidate for the Elantra N Line — it’s already offered in the Elantra GT N Line hatchback, among other Hyundais.
2. It Will (Probably) Handle Better
The Elantra GT N Line gets some suspension tweaks and is also available with summer performance tires, so expect similar goodies with the 2021 Elantra N Line. Also like the Elantra GT N Line, it might be missing the torque-vectoring control system that Cars.com reviewer Brian Wong said would’ve pushed the Elantra GT N Line from fun to good in his personal performance index.
3. It Will Look (at Least Slightly) Different
How different is tough to tell with all the camouflage in the teaser images — we can’t see if there are different colored accents at the front or rear compared with the regular Elantra, but there are some telltale differences between the N Line and vanilla Elantras. First, the wheels are a slightly different and more aggressive five-spoke design. Second, the N Line has dual exhaust tips at the rear instead of the regular Elantra’s single exhaust.
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