Sangyup Lee, Hyundai’s design chief, and his team of designers discovered sketches and blueprints for a previously unknown production version of the Pony Coupe in Hyundai’s archives a few years ago. It would have been an excellent sports car counterpart to the Pony, but it never materialized.
Hyundai lacked a suitable engine for the vehicle, and the business case simply did not exist. Giugiaro, on the other hand, admired the Pony Coupe’s design and went on to create the DMC DeLorean. “Please don’t say there’s a resemblance to the DeLorean, because we did it first,” Lee said at the concept’s unveiling. The N Vision 74 does not resemble or replicate a Golf or a DeLorean; rather, it is a Giugiaro design. The N Vision 74 is a modern interpretation of the Pony Coupe that realizes Giugiaro’s vision of what a Hyundai sports car could have been.
