Yahoo Autos Hyundai Pony Coupe Concept will live again thanks to Giugaro
Hyundai's charge into becoming a full-line auto manufacturer began when the South Koreans contacted Italian designer Giorgetto Giugaro about creating a car that would be the first mass-produced original offering from Korea. Giugaro designed and built five prototypes that would establish the Hyundai Pony lineup, one of them the Pony Coupe Concept that Hyundai showed at the 1974 Turin Auto Show. Hyundai began selling the five-door Pony hatchback in 1975, but not only did the Coupe Concept never make production, Hyundai destroyed it. Memories of the coupe have seen a revival in the past few years as inspiration for the 45 Concept that became the Ioniq 5, for the Pony EV restomod, and for the N Vision 74 Concept. To pay proper homage to origins, the automaker has announced it will work with GFG, the Turin design house run by father-and-son designers Giorgetto and Fabrizio Giugaro, to re-create the Pony Coupe Concept show car.
