Hyundai’s Insteroid is an EV one-off for gamers

Hyundai has revealed a gaming-inspired “Insteroid” conception EV successful Seoul that takes its tiny all-electric Inster and gives it an over-the-top thoroughfare racing makeover. The automaker’s cutesy compact SUV was handed disconnected to Hyundai’s European plan squad with the extremity of merging “gaming influences with extended customization,” according to a property release.

The Insteroid gives the Inster a wide assemblage kit, monolithic spoiler, way wheels, and a stripped interior featuring bucket seats and a futuristic instrumentality cluster. In the release, Hyundai’s main decorator Eduardo Ramírez says that Insteroid “represents a modern instrumentality connected the thought of a imagination car.”

Hyundai is besides featuring the Insteroid successful an in-house-developed video crippled that volition beryllium disposable for anyone to play successful a web browser.

Hyundai hopes the Insteroid conception volition “spark further involvement successful the Inster accumulation exemplary already connected merchantability successful cardinal markets,” which continues to exclude the US. The regular Inster is launching arsenic the Casper Electric successful Korea this summer, followed by Europe and Asia, with pricing starting nether $26,000.