Yearly, automakers construct just a few dozen idea automobiles that encourage the press and the car-loving public with their visions of design route for brand new automobiles. And yearly, most of them fade into obscurity.
However, now and again, one lights hundreds of thousands of imaginations on hearth.
Final yr, Hyundai confirmed off an idea automobile that obtained the press buzzing. It was all the pieces good about Seventies automobile design with a powertrain straight out of an alternate universe future.
Known as the N Imaginative and prescient 74, it took design cues from one other idea automobile that by no means noticed manufacturing. The 1974 Hyundai Pony Coupe idea was an aggressive wedge of a automobile. That automobile was penned by famed Italian automobile designer Giorgetto Giugiaro (say it, it’s enjoyable), the thoughts behind the DMC DeLorean.
Now, a report in Korea’s Cash In the present day says the N Imaginative and prescient 74 is headed for manufacturing.
The latest idea automobile took the perfect of the outdated Pony Coupe design and turned the dial to 11, with boxy retro-wedge traces, large vents, and lots of of tiny sq. lights like pixels in an arcade recreation that swallowed loads of quarters within the Reagan years.
The N Imaginative and prescient 74 idea used a mixture of electrical batteries and a hydrogen gasoline cell for energy. That strategy is unlikely in a manufacturing automobile. Automakers promote hydrogen-powered autos 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 probably as a pure electrical automobile. The look is radical and in contrast to anything on the market in 2023. However Hyundai’s different electrical autos are every excessive expressions of a design pattern 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 could match proper in on the pleasant Island of Misfit Toys that’s the electrical part of a Hyundai dealership at this time.
Korean press studies say Hyundai will formally announce the automobile on Might 27.
