Hyundai will staff up with legendary Italian designer Giorgetto Giugiaro to recreate the unique Hyundai Pony Coupe Idea of 1974, an iconic present automobile designed by Giugiaro that laid the groundwork for the arrival of the Pony sedan a yr later.

The idea was amongst 5 designs Giugiaro got here up with for Hyundai within the early Seventies as a part of a authorities problem to develop South Korea’s first automobile in time for launch by 1975 (beforehand Korean automakers have been constructing vehicles for overseas automakers). The problem would finally be met by the Pony sedan.

A manufacturing model of the Pony Coupe Idea was because of observe however the challenge got here to a cease in 1981 because of an financial downturn. The automobile’s wedge-shape would reside on in one other Giugiaro design: the DeLorean DMC 12 that debuted in 1983.

Regardless of its significance, the Pony Coupe Idea not exists. Hyundai hasn’t stated what really occurred to it, however now the automaker needs to construct a brand new one as we method the fiftieth anniversary of the idea’s unveiling on the 1974 Turin auto present.

Hyundai made the announcement final week in Seoul at a gathering of designers, which included Giugiaro and his son Fabrizio. The 2 Giugiaros immediately run the design agency GFG Model, which they began after promoting their remaining shares of their earlier design agency, Italdesign Giugiaro, to Volkswagen Group in 2015.

The collaboration between Hyundai and GFG Model might prolong past the recreation of the Pony Coupe Idea, in line with Luc Donckerwolke, Hyundai Motor Group’s chief inventive officer.

“Not solely does this challenge maintain historic worth, but it surely additionally represents a cross-cultural alternate that might pave the way in which for extra collaborations down the street,” he stated in a press release.

The recreated Pony Coupe Idea can be unveiled subsequent spring.