Hyundai N Vision 74 Concept Has A Design 50 Years In The Making

Hyundai'sN Vision 74 Concept is clearly retro, but did you know that its design - or at least something very similar - almost reached production 50 years ago? Hyundai has revealed the story of the N Vision 74's design origins and has also announced that it will once again avail itself of the services of the legendary Giorgetto Giugiaro torecreate the original Hyundai Pony concept carthat inspired today's concept.

As we already know, the Hyundai Pony production car became the automaker's first mass-produced model, but the original concept had a more significant impact than Hyundai even originally realized. When the company's designers began developing theN Vision 74 rolling lab, they stumbled across something special.

设计师们参观了现代的设计中心拱门ives and found a blueprint drawing orPiano di Forma(Plan of Form). This document appeared to be a sketch of the Pony Coupe Concept, but the date on the paper revealed that the sketch was drawn on 18 February 1977 - two-and-a-half years after the Pony Coupe Concept was unveiled in 1974.

This warranted further investigation and, following the paper trail, revealed to the designers that the blueprint they found was the first drawing handed over to the engineering team by the design team. This essentially confirmed that the Pony Coupe was not always meant to remain a concept. But why was a fledgling automaker considering something as radical as a coupe at the time?