Hyundai Ioniq 6 2025 facelift revealed, Ioniq 6 N confirmed

Three years after it launched in its dwelling market of South Korea, the Hyundai Ioniq 6 exclusively-electrical sedan has received a total facelift that slims down visible vital points while further emphasising the model’s dedication to aerodynamic effectivity.

Dubbed by its maker because the “electrified streamliner”, the revised Ioniq 6 ditches the conventional version’s sizable headlight assemblies for considerably more avantgarde ruin up models combining a skinny daytime working gentle above a neat main beam assembly.

Flatter bonnet styling items as more of a two-dimensional form while the front apron loses its old vertical canards to emphasise the width of the sedan.

Plus, a original N Line version joins the worldwide differ in a deliver in self assurance to produce consistency across Hyundai’s models and to carry out a more assertively-detailed replacement to the identical old version.

At the rear, the convoluted spoiler plot of the conventional Ioniq 6 has been replaced by an prolonged ducktail, while radical alloy wheel designs characteristic across the facelifted differ.

Nearly all of the sources expended on the facelift had been focussed on cleansing up the exterior plot, with minimal adjustments to the Ioniq 6 cabin taking in guidance wheel and door dapper arena topic alterations and the addition of a higher local weather administration panel.

The incoming N Line’s reign at the high of the Ioniq 6 lineup will most certainly be immediate-lived, on the opposite hand, because the existence of the Hyundai Ioniq 6 N has been at the original time confirmed for the main time—beforehand, it changed into as soon as most effective teased (extensively) by the existence of the RN22e prototype version.

Hyundai Motor Firm Australia (HMCA) has already confirmed that this will lift the Ioniq 6 N to Australia as an “vital halo model”. The automobile will most certainly be exclusively published in mid-2025 and could perchance reach Aussie shores in early 2026. This is able to perchance spend core Ioniq 5 N mechanicals.

That will most certainly be about six months after HMCA launches the facelifted Ioniq 6 in Australia in the second half of of 2025. The N Line version has no longer been locked in at this stage but could perchance be a part of the differ at start, or later.

HMCA concedes that the Ioniq 6 is a rather behind seller for the impress and that there stays genuinely intensive stock of the sedan on the bottom in Australia. It’s seemingly that further trace cutting will most certainly be viewed to obvious that stock before the advent of recent steel.

Since start the Ioniq 6 sedan has been a arena of interest automobile for Hyundai in Australia, with its 2024 and 2023 supply numbers (374 and 623 respectively) dwarfed nearly fiftyfold by these of its chief rival, the Tesla Mannequin 3 (17,094 and 17,347).

Yet the Ioniq 6’s blend of accurate-world effectivity, supple scramble quality, sexy dynamics and a excessive-quality cabin had been ample to gaze it acquire the Chasing Vehicles Automobile of the twelve months title in 2023 in a reflection of its pattern.

Mild, the Ioniq 6’s rather excessive pricing in Australia (from $67,300 sooner than on-motorway funds, or $73,300 BOCS for a protracted-differ version) locations it nearer to top fee competition than the omnipresent Tesla sedan (from $54,900 BOCS).

Whether the advent of the facelift in Australia will coincide with a tricky—but in all chance well-known—decision to reposition the pricing of the “electrified streamliner” is no longer yet known.

A name could perchance even be made to slim down the Ioniq 6 differ in the community, which for the time being sits at six variants spanning $67,300 to $86,500 BOCS with fifty three.0kWh and 77.4kWh batteries readily accessible to Australian possibilities along with quite a lot of rear-wheel force and all-wheel force.

The sibling to the Ioniq 6, the hatchback/SUV-fashioned Ioniq 5, is faring about three instances higher in the Australian gross sales speed with that model taking part in 933 local deliveries in 2024.

To this point this twelve months, the Ioniq 5 N ($110,383 BOCS) excessive-performance model which launched in Australia ultimate twelve months—and which shares key internals with the Ioniq 6 N—has stumbled on 57 Australian shoppers in the main three months of 2025.