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Hyundai Gave Its Smallest EV A Little More Off-Road Attitude

  • The Hyundai Inster Cross adds skid plates, matte paint, a roof box, special 17-inch wheels and embossed cladding to the standard Inster EV hatchback.
  • The Inster Cross still is mechanically the same as its standard Inster hatchback.
  • Hyundai also introduced a new base model of the standard Inster in South Korea, starting at $20,000 before any government incentives.

Every day I log into the internet, the more frustrated I get watching the rest of the world enjoy well-styled, well-designed, not-so-big, and not-so-expensive electric vehicles. The Hyundai Inster is one of them; Hyundai took its Korea-only city car, stretched the wheelbase a bit, made it electric, and now it’s headed basically everywhere but here. And Hyundai’s decided to rub salt in our wounds by introducing a more rugged version of its cutest little EV.

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