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The original was posted on /r/cars by /u/BroxigarZ on 2025-03-24 01:54:03+00:00.

Firstly, I may just be crazy, but I’ve been around the car scene for a very long time. I live in a very congested place with a very large and established car scene.

Before COVID, I used to see Veloster N’s everywhere. I mean, everywhere. They were popular due to the price point ($24-30K USD) making it one of the absolute best price to performance cars of our generation. Then COVID happened and a very interesting event unfolded:

Used Car “buyouts” from places like Carvana were offering INSANE buyouts on Veloster N’s paying people $32-35K USD for cars that were purchased off the lot for nearly $10,000 less. And I knew many people who took advantage of this goldmine opportunity, I even watched people go buy off the lot VeloN’s and immediately flip them to Carvana for a payout. (Or equivalent locations buying Used cars)

But now, something is very bizarre - this model of car that sold 10’s of thousands of units in the States in my area has all but…vanished. You see them no where, I literally went to a very large car show this weekend and not a single N car was there.

It’s like they’ve evaporated from existence. I’ve seen a handful of Elantra N’s now (close to 10-20 on the regular in the area) but Veloster N’s have just…vanished.

Now if the car was 20 years old, sure I get it, they get into accidents and totaled out with time. But this car debuted in 2019 and ended production in 2023 - just 2 years ago.

Where did Carvana send all these cars? Who has them? No ones driving them, no ones selling them - Carmax in the states shows “3” just “3” NATIONWIDE. Autotrader only shows 42 of the 4,000+ that were sold NATIONWIDE. I find this fascinating; because I know a truckload of these things were traded in during the pandemic for the cash payout.

It’s like they’ve just been erased. Is anyone else noticing this? Did Carvana just ship these all overseas? Is Dubai loaded up on LHD Velo N’s?