Yearly, automakers construct a couple of dozen idea automobiles that encourage the press and the car-loving public with their visions of design course for brand new automobiles. And yearly, most of them fade into obscurity.
However, on occasion, one lights hundreds of thousands of imaginations on fireplace.
Final 12 months, Hyundai confirmed off an idea automotive that acquired the press buzzing. It was every part good about Nineteen Seventies automotive design with a powertrain straight out of an alternate universe future.
Referred to as the N Imaginative and prescient 74, it took design cues from one other idea automotive that by no means noticed manufacturing. The 1974 Hyundai Pony Coupe idea was an aggressive wedge of a automotive. That automotive was penned by famed Italian automotive designer Giorgetto Giugiaro (say it, it’s enjoyable), the thoughts behind the DMC DeLorean.
Now, a report in Korea’s Cash As we speak says the N Imaginative and prescient 74 is headed for manufacturing.
The current idea automotive took the most effective of the outdated Pony Coupe design and turned the dial to 11, with boxy retro-wedge traces, large vents, and tons of of tiny sq. lights like pixels in an arcade sport that swallowed loads of quarters within the Reagan years.
The N Imaginative and prescient 74 idea used a mix of electrical batteries and a hydrogen gas cell for energy. That method is unlikely in a manufacturing automotive. Automakers promote hydrogen-powered automobiles in 2023, just like the Toyota Mirai and Hyundai’s personal Nexo. However they’re restricted to sale in California, the place nearly all of America’s hydrogen refueling stations are situated.
A manufacturing model appears extra possible as a pure electrical automotive. The look is radical and in contrast to the rest on the market in 2023. However Hyundai’s different electrical automobiles are every excessive expressions of a design development as properly, just like the swoopy Ioniq 6 and boxy, ’80s-inspired Ioniq 5.
The N Imaginative and prescient 74 might not look very like these automobiles. However these automobiles don’t look very like one another. It might match proper in on the pleasant Island of Misfit Toys that’s the electrical part of a Hyundai dealership immediately.
Korean press reviews say Hyundai will formally announce the automotive on Might 27.
