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Rub your eyes. Yes, its a Hyundai soaring through the air.

Rub your eyes and look again. Yes, its a Hyundai Veloster soaring through the air on what looks to be a rally course.

Rub your eyes and look one last time. Yes, its a rally-prepped Hyundai Veloster soaring through the air on what looks to be a rally course.

From the photographic morsel sent to us by the Koreans – and no, not from Calvin Kim or I – Hyundai looks like theyre going to enter the U. S. rally foray via Rally Americas Championship and Rallicross competitions. And judging from the huge Red Bull on the passenger door and the OEs past involvement in drifting, the driver is most likely going to be Rhys Millen, the wonder from island neighboring Down Under.

The New Zealander, of the off-road, rally, and IMSA lineage, is no stranger to dirt—Rhys himself has competed for years in the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, campaigning a prototype Hyundai in the Unlimited class last year.

While details are sketchy as of yet, Hyundai will reveal its full rally plans at the 2011 Chicago Auto Show, Wednesday, February 9 at 9:45 a. m. Central time.