Hyundai’s Wild New Sports Concepts Will Get You Hyped About Electric Cars

Let’s tackle the giant elephant in the room, the Hyundai N Vision 74. It’s an angular beauty with hints of a vintage Lancia Delta Integrale and Delorean DMC-12. It’s no secret the existing Ioniq 5, which started life as the Hyundai 45 Concept, got its wedgy, angular styling DNA from the Hyundai Pony, the automaker’s first-ever production car. What Hyundai did for the N Vision 74 is it took a Pony, stretched it a bit, gave it two doors, massive air intakes in the rear quarters, and finished it with a gigantic rear spoiler.

Motor Trend adds the DeLorean homage is intentional. In 1974, Hyundai debuted the Pony Coupe Concept at the Turin Auto Show, purportedly the automaker’s first-ever sports car. Designed by the legendary Giorgetto Giugiaro (who penned masterpiece classic cars like the Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta, Alfa Romeo 105/115 Coupes, and the VW Golf Mk1, to mention a few), the Pony Coupe never made it to production. However, Giugiaro continued refining the design and sold the new version to DeLorean for the production DMC-12.

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Look closer, and you’ll see the N Vision 74 has inherited the Pony Coupe Concept’s B-pillar and wedgy profile. We also like those groovy turbine-style wheels (20-inch front and 21-inch rear) wrapped in ultra-wide tires to seal the deal. The result is an epic-looking electric car, but the N Vision 74’s striking body style also hides some clever engineering.