Hyundai is on a roll in relation to its electrical program. The South Korean producer has the brand new Ioniq 5, which is a really attractive-looking electrical car with respectable traits. Hyundai additionally shocked everybody with the lovable Heritage Sequence Pony, a throwback to the model’s very first manufacturing mannequin.
At present displayed within the Hyundai Motorstudio situated inside Korea’s second-largest and seaside metropolis of Busan, the idea has been completely detailed by the Woopa TV channel on YouTube. Sadly, the video hooked up on the high of this text doesn’t have English subtitles, although you’ll be able to study rather a lot by simply watching.
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Most likely the best factor about this idea is that it’s really based mostly on a first-gen Pony. It has been disassembled, re-engineered with an electrical powertrain and lots of different upgrades, and assembled again collectively. Hyundai didn’t reveal a lot in regards to the examine from a tech perspective, although it stated the automotive encompasses a digital contact transmission, cradle house for cell phone, and a voice-activated steering wheel. What precisely all of those applied sciences imply, at this level we don’t know.
One notably cool contact is the pair of fender-mounted exterior mirrors, which reportedly use little cameras. The general form of the automotive stays mainly unchanged from the unique however the LED headlights and taillights give it a contemporary twist. We haven’t had the possibility to have a look contained in the boot however Hyundai says there’s “a last-mile mobility machine, comprising a stainless-steel case.”
For sure, Hyundai has no plans to supply the reborn Pony. Nevertheless, it’s in all probability not that tough to search out an instance from the model’s first manufacturing car on the market. In case you do – and if you wish to convert it into an EV – the video right here may offer you some good concepts.