Giugiaro wants to work on more Hyundai design projects

Legendary car decorator Giorgetto Giugiaro says helium hopes helium tin enactment with Hyundai connected aboriginal projects, having played a cardinal relation successful shaping its historical and existent line-up.

The Italian down each mode of icons - from the Mk1 Volkswagen Golf to the Lancia Delta and the DeLorean DMC - precocious teamed up with Hyundai to recreate the long-lost 1974 Pony Coupé concept, a two-door reworking of the hatchback that established the Korean marque arsenic a measurement manufacturer.

His archetypal five-door Pony plan besides had a dense power connected today's Hyundai Ioniq 5 and extremist Vision N 74 concept.

And in an interrogation astatine the recreated Pony Coupé's unveiling, the 84-year-old decorator hinted that he's prepared to enactment with Hyundai connected aboriginal products too.

Asked by Autocar if determination is simply a aboriginal for the concern betwixt his GFG Style outfit (founded with his lad Fabrizio successful 2015) and Hyundai, helium said: “We hope. We would surely person the tendency to beryllium progressive successful caller projects.

"They person a very, precise large plan and originative team, but it's ever important to person power and originative ideas from idiosyncratic outside, due to the fact that a institution specified arsenic ours could efficaciously stimulate and make caller research and caller ideas - thing which could beryllium utile for their plan team."

Notably, Hyundai has been vocal astir its intent to revive elements of historical designs successful its caller cars, with plan brag SangYup Lee pledging to basal Hyundai's aboriginal plan strategy successful its "legacy" and pointing to cues specified arsenic the "parametric" pixel headlights of the Ioniq 5 and Ioniq 6 arsenic elements that hark backmost respective decades.

There remains nary denotation that the Vision N 74 could beryllium enactment into production, and the Pony Coupé has been designed faithfully to 1974 specifications solely for Hyundai's firm collection; but similarly angular, Giugiaro-inspired designs could beryllium connected the cards for upcoming models.

The adjacent Hyundai EV to beryllium unveiled volition beryllium the Ioniq 7, a boxy ample SUV previewed successful 2021 by the bold Seven concept. Beyond that, though, Hyundai remains tight-lipped astir what to expect successful presumption of positioning and design.