Summary
- The Toyota GR Supra and Hyundai Veloster N are both fast and relatively affordable performance cars, but they are very different from each other.
- Digital artist, Yasid Design has created a mashup between the two cars, imagining what a hybrid version would look like.
- The mashup features a more practical GR Supra with a more aggressive body kit, combining elements from both cars, and it actually works aesthetically.
Toyota GR Supra and Hyundai Veloster N are some of the hottest performance models, currently on the market. They are also some of the few properly fast cars that are relatively attainable. The GR Supra 3.0 starts from $52,500 while the Veloster N starts at a much more modest $32,500. The two cars couldn't be any different and comparing them would be comparing apples to oranges.
The only thing in common, really, is that they both come with a turbocharged engine. A mashup between the two cars may seem impossible, but digital artist and TopSpeed contributor, Yasid Designs, has given us an answer to a question no one thought of asking. What would a hybrid between the GR Supra and Veloster N look like? The answer is sheer madness, but also more plausible than you may think.
A GR Supra N Shooting Brake
The fifth-generation Toyota Supra shares its underpinnings and mechanicals with the BMW Z4 - a fact that was initially frowned upon by JDM purists. Toyota insisted that its engineers made their own tweaks to the GR Supra, but the Bavarian genes are obvious, spreading even to the BMW Z4-like interior. Regardless, almost no one makes a sports car on its own nowadays, and the fact the GR Supra is a consistent performer speaks tomes of BMW's abilities to produce a potent platform.
Since the Veloster N is a hot hatch and the GR Supra, a coupe, Yasid Designs aw an opportunity to give us a more practical GR Supra. Although we won't see this in real life unless a custom shop comes in and butchers a perfectly good GR Supra, it's worth remembering when BMW made the Z3 "Clown shoe". The recently-unveiled BMW Z4 Touring Concept showed what a modern-day "Clown shoe" could look like, and now we see what Toyota's equivalent could look like. But there's more.
The N Treatment
The Supra-Veloster mashup's exterior seems to be finished with Hyundai's Performance Blue color. The rendering shows a much more aggressive body kit, with the front apron combining elements of the two performance models. The Supra's headlights retain the same design but are now squinting. The side profile is quite busy and now features suicide doors similar to the Mazda RX-8.
Going to the rear, we see the GR Supra taillights have been squished for a rounder look compared to the original's more streamlined design. The ducktail is even more prominent, but is now part of a hatchback rear end, featuring the Velsoter N's top-mounted rear spoiler. The aggressive rear diffuser is an exaggerated version of the one found on the Veloster N, with two round exhaust tips rounding off the symmetrical looks.
To sum things up, this mashup of the Toyota GR Supra and Hyundai Veloster N is not easy on the eyes. The shooting brake features the Veloster N's two-tone exterior with dark gray at the bottom half and contrasting red accents. The exaggerated body kit makes the car seem like it's ready to tackle the Pikes Peak.
The Hyundai Veloster N represents the newly-formed KDM car scene, which was started by the Hyundai Genesis Coupe and to a much smaller extent by its predecessor, the Tiburon. The Supra, meanwhile, has always been a Japanese icon. It continues to do so even now when it is, essentially, a re-bodied BMW Z4.
Such automotive mashups are steadily becoming a trend among digital artists, but this one is by far, the boldest one we have seen so far. Until now, most other mashup renderings are limited to swapping a car's front end with another one, but this mix of JDM and KDM goes way beyond that. Front and rear-end swaps are already a thing, and there are whole Facebook groups dedicated to such builds. Such renderings are a good indication of what works and what doesn't, and somehow, this one works.