The rumors a couple of manufacturing model of the Hyunda N Imaginative and prescient 74 idea have been enjoyable whereas they lasted. Hyundai reps in South Korea and within the U.S. put the kibosh on a report in South Korean outlet Cash Immediately alleging an N Imaginative and prescient 74 for the market. Supposedly, the design studio on the Asian HQ was going to host a Pony Day on March 27 the place assembled exec would present the automotive and announce the excellent news. Automaker peeps in Korea instructed Korean outlet WikiTree (translated), “There isn’t any plan to mass-produce the Pony Coupe, and there’s no Pony Day occasion deliberate.” Guaranteeing everybody obtained the memo, a U.S. rep instructed Carscoops, “We’re conscious of media speculations on the potential industrial manufacturing of the N Imaginative and prescient 74 rolling lab growth mannequin,” however that “[while] the heritage and spirit of Pony fashions have a long-lasting impression on the Hyundai Motor Firm, we presently haven’t any plan for a industrial manufacturing of the Pony Coupe Idea.”
So Hyundai did not need to hearken to us once we advised the corporate pony up on a retail mannequin and offered justifications for doing so. That is nice. We will not consider that is the tip of the highway for the coupe, although. Hyundai mined its Pony heritage to glorious impact and glorious gross sales with the Ioniq 5. There’s already a platform and a design language. If the approaching decade proves electrics make market, enterprise, and pure useful resource sense on the inexpensive finish of the car-buying spectrum, why would not a retail model of the N Imaginative and prescient 74 burst from the chute to run with an electrical Ford Mustang, electrical Volkswagen Golf, electrical Honda Civic, and a possible Nissan Max-Out Convertible?
Whereas we look forward to time’s reply, we all know there is a totally different particular on the way in which. Hyundai destroyed the Pony Coupe Idea proven on the 1974 Turin Auto Present to assist set up the Pony lineup. Recollections of the coupe have been inspiration for the 45 Idea that turned the Ioniq 5, for the Pony EV restomod, and for the N Imaginative and prescient 74 Idea on the eye of the most recent storm. To pay correct homage to origins, the automaker has introduced it’s going to work with GFG Type, the Turin design home based by father-and-son designers Giorgetto and Fabrizio Giugaro, to re-create the Pony Coupe Idea present automotive. Final 12 months, Hyundai stated the debut was penciled in for this spring. If there is a Pony Day, this might be its prize.
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