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THE 2018 Hyundai Veloster has had yet another tease ahead of its official arrival, this time showing more of the visual form that will add to the excitement of the all-new four-door coupe.
Due for a full reveal at next month’s Detroit Motor Show, we can see the new Veloster loses some of the goofy looks of the model it will replace. The trapezoidal grille now sits much lower, taking up less space than the black maw that dominates the current Veloster. The headlights become more aggressive, with a Ford Falcon FGX-style LED light display tracing the trailing and bottom edges of the smaller, more modern-looking headlight assembly. Even the bonnet, now featuring a subtle power bulge rather than the odd-look recesses, looks vastly improved.
The lower air dam is punctuated by angular, almost Lamborghini-esque features that are likely to house the fog lights on more pedestrian versions of the Veloster, and adapt to feed cooling air to the brakes on Turbo and Veloster N versions of the hatchback.
The side profile shows the Veloster will keep its quirky four-door looks, featuring a rear door behind the front passenger side one. The raked windscreen now flows back into a subtle ducktail, while the wheel arches lose some of their hard lines. The rear glass now seems to run even deeper into the C-pillar, with something of an inverted Hoffmeister-knick about it.
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