The long version

Depreciation here is not a warning sign, it is practically a feature — nobody buying an i30 N is pricing in resale, and the steady value decline just confirms the car is doing what it was bought to do: commute all week, get thrashed on a track day, repeat, with no residual-value anxiety weighing on any of it. It has not built the cult mystique of the older hot hatches on this list, partly because it is still too new and partly because Hyundai never built a legend around it, just a genuinely sorted chassis. That absence of mythology is itself the tell.