If you are familiar with The Drifting King, Keiichi TsuchiyaYou know, he loves driving cool cars and taking them to the track. Hyundai Ioniq 5N is a great car, as well RN22e And Vision N 74 concepts. So naturally, when Hyundai handed Tsuchiya the keys to all three, he wasted no time in kicking them out.
In a video for Best MOTORing magazine, Tsuchiya got the chance to interact with Hyundai representatives and drivers as he experienced some of the company’s best cars: Ioniq 5N (including a special version prepared for drifting), the RN22e and the N Vision 74, as well as Elantra N-TCR and a i20 WRC standard.
Tsuchiya didn’t get to drive the WRC car, instead sitting in the passenger seat while Hyundai driver Thierry Neuville took the wheel, but DK got to try everything else. The result? Both the stock car and the drift-ready car. Ioniq 5NLike the RN22e, it slides nicely, but the N Vision 74 has so much grip that it can’t really lean sideways.
Likewise, Tsuchiya isn’t trying to let the Elantra N TCR slide. Remember, Tsuchiya has also competed in the Japanese Touring Car Championship and Le Mans—he knows how to drive with grip, he just often chooses not to.
As usual for Best MOTORing, the entire video is in Japanese, but YouTube’s auto-translated subtitles get the gist of it. It’s Friday, and you’re not doing anything anyway, so let’s put on 40 minutes of Drift King honking Hyundai horns. Then, if you have time left during the workday, Watch Pol Tarres do the same magic on two wheels
