Did Hyundai Just Tease a Production Version of the N Vision 74?
It's wise to not get your hopes up too high about any shred of Hyundai N Vision 74 news. Conflicting rumors and reports about the hydrogen-powered retro-modern sports car have it feeling more like a ping-pong ball than a car — and now, there's yet another morsel of evidence that it might exist.
A Monday preview for Hyundai's new documentary, 'The Great Heritage: CAR,' features a shot of what could very well be a blurred prototype of the N Vision 74. First brought to our attention by Australia's Carsales, the subject appears for just an instant toward the end of the documentary teaser alongside the un-blurred N Vision 74 Concept car, rotating in sync with the prototype.
It's difficult to tell much about the blurred vehicle in the video, but its general shape mimics the lines and proportions of the retro-futuristic N Vision 74 Concept. The only bit that sticks out as clearly visible is an aggressive front chin spoiler. It's not an exact copy of the concept, but it sure does look close.
The wedge-like nose also sticks out prominently in the same fashion as the concept car, though there doesn't appear to be an enormous rear wing. That'd be an expected loss from concept to production. (But even if it's not standard, we'd love to have an optional wing to make the production car look like the concept.) The stainless steel-like appearance of the concept is also traded for a coat of bright red paint, but that's the last detail we can make out from the obfuscated image.
What does this mean? Well, it pushes more doubt to last year's report we saw from South Korean outlet iNews24 that claimed the N Vision 74 project was cancelled. That report from September was just one of the many back-and-forths we've seen in the frenzy around the sports car. As for the documentary, episode one is already out on Korea's WAVVE platform, and it's safe to say the N Vision 74 is definitely going to be an ongoing topic of discusssion.
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