Hyundai is already dropping hints about the next Elantra N.

The company's design boss wants to make the compact sedan look even more aggressive.

The Elantra N is expected to have a larger engine.

The new Elantra is unquestionably the biggest star at the ongoing 2026 Busan Auto Show in South Korea. Hyundai has revamped its compact sedan for its eighth generation by applying design cues derived from the spectacular N Vision 74 supercar concept, or so we'd like to think. This is just the beginning, as the Executive Vice President and Head of Hyundai and Genesis Global Design Center is already dropping hints about what lies ahead.

At the very end of the debut event, Sangyup Lee shared some juicy tidbits about the high-performance version. While he stopped short of calling it the Elantra N, we can easily read between the lines. CarSceneKorea quotes the design head honcho as saying: