Hyundai Vision N 74 shows up in a presentation about production cars

Not solely will rumors of the Hyundai N Imaginative and prescient 74 idea not die, Hyundai is now formally a purpose they persist. In the course of the Hyundai Group’s latest CEO Investor Day targeted on plans to double the company’s hybrid lineup, one presentation included the slide above, labeled, “EV Full Lineup: Present clients with a variety of choices from mass-market to luxurious/high-performance fashions.” Underneath a subheading of “Launch 21 fashions by 2030, the examples proven included 4 fashions from two of the group’s three manufacturers. Two of the fashions are already out: The electrical Hyundai Inster bought in markets like Europe and Australia, and the Ioniq N. Two others are imminent, the Ioniq 9 SUV and Genesis GV60 Magma. However one mannequin within the high-performance EV class is not proven — however is known as: The Hyundai N (vision 74). 

Hyundai confirmed the idea in July 2022 on its performance-focused N-Day, together with an Ioniq 6 N rolling laboratory known as the RN22e. The N74 shared the identical primary form of the 1974 Hyundai Pony Coupe idea designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro, its mien modernized and sharpened for the twenty first century. Blistered fenders might have come off an previous IMSA racer, pixel lights, and Turbofan wheels gave it a glance that Nineteen Eighties sci-fi wished, however did not have the know-how on the time, to be. Propulsion got here from two electrical motors on the rear axle, whole output north of 670 horsepower and 664 pound-feet of torque. Power got here from a 62.4-kWh battery pack and a 4.2-kg hydrogen gasoline tank tied to an 85-kW fuel-cell stack. Hyundai estimated vary at greater than 373 miles.

After the primary spherical of rumors about manufacturing kicked off in Could 2023, we gave our opinion: “Pony up, Hyundai. Build the N Vision 74 concept.” Hyundai denied the stories and stated the N won’t be a manufacturing automobile. The rumors continued to the end of the year, took a bit of break, then continued in May of this year. By that point, the street-legal model was anticipated to reach in 2026, include the idea’s dual-electric powertrain, put out greater than 775 hp, be restricted to roughly 100 or 200 models, a portion to be campaigned in a race collection within the U.S. and Europe, and price round $374,000 apiece at as we speak’s change charges. 

All we learn about how shut the corporate’s precise plans for the automobile match the rumors are on the above slide. We might assume it a disgrace if Hyundai actually made a pair hundred of them that will sit in collector garages or Bonhams auction catalogs. Nonetheless, if Hyundai bought a high-dollar know-how showcase that became a pure battery-electric model at a welcoming worth, we would not complain. Or, because the idea was reportedly constructed on a modified Kia Stinger platform, we all know a efficiency hybrid contradicts the title of the slide, however we would not complain about that, both.