https://www.hyundai.com/worldwide/en/brand-journal/heritage/heritage-series-grandeur
We’re celebrating the 35th anniversary of our 1986 Hyundai Grandeur flagship sedan with an electrifying retro concept. With an electric powertrain and all-new light and sound features, the Heritage Series Grandeur will seduce you with its ‘80s nostalgia, cutting-edge technology, and luxurious interior.
I’m seeing some pre-Chrysler Mercedes in this, it really speaks to me. Some cars are bricks, and they are bricks in style. Modern Mercedes could never.
I’ve probably saved so much money in my adult life since my childhood “dream” car manufacturer is just making uninspired and overpriced blobs now. Hyundai at least show they have their ears to the ground, even if this is just a concept.
Take me back to an era when new things were cool. I’m sick and bored of novelty; I miss novelty.
I would definitely shoot at RoboCop hanging out the window of this car.
Ok, but physical buttons are a great heritage to inherit too imho.
Holy shit, let em cook!
Although I love the look of old cars getting a modern facelift, I still don’t get the appeal behind all that screens or digital gauges… I never liked the look of them, they’re touchscreen, thus hard to use while driving and way too ‘smart’. I don’t want or need all the nonsense modern cars have today… I just want a car that I have control over dammit.
Yeah, I think it’s a bit unnecessary and leaning too much into the modern EV digital dashboard appeal.
That dash confused the shit out of me at first since there’s no way they could’ve done that in 86. Guess I missed the whole reimagining/concept thing.
If KITT was a K car
You just summed it up! As I detail in my post though, this is a specific homage to the pre-1997 lincoln town car and more distantly the 1987 buick GNX (the rear ends look totally different, but still). There is no other conclusion you can make if you look at the styling, I mean obviously there are asian minimalist car design cues here too from cars of that era (particularly, and beautifully executed, in the rear face and lights of the car), not trying to downplay that, this is just such an obvious nod to a precise part of U.S. car culture and it is cool because whoever had the vision for this car has REALLY fucking good taste in cars.
Take my money that thing looks awesome
Boy, that’s hideous (I know many of you like this).
The “cassette futurism” part is fine, it’s the car itself is part of the bad design from the era, and I really like the boxy car esthetic. This one’s just not good, because it’s from the transition era - it’s not of the all-metal period (or mostly-metal at least), instead it’s that terrible plastic bleeding to the bumpers. The front looks like a (terrible) 1980’s Chrysler K Car. Shudder.
A slightly older car (perhaps 1-2 years) would’ve been better in general, but especially with the cassette futurism vibe, since the interior would be a juxtaposition to the exterior design. Or even the reverse, which CF does a lot - great exterior design around conventional internals (the Walkman, especially Sport versions, are peak example of this juxtaposition).
That interior though, wow, that’s some snazzy design work. The dash just works, it fits with the era so well. Impressive.
This is hitting people with early 90s nostalgia, if that’s before you cared about cars this isn’t going to strike you like it does for someone who got their licence to drive in the 90s
I’m loving Hyundai design lately
Ok, I love it, clearly this thing is a futuristic love letter to the 1996 lincoln town car, the best 'Murican car ever made
looks more like a Toyota Century to me
I mean, definitely, I wasn’t trying to say this was exclusively a reference to those cars only that the reference is there.
it’s just very funny to read a take like “obviously this is a tribute to 90s american cars” with massive amounts of detail, when the asian manufacturers have been building these luxury barges for domestic use since the 70s
very amerikapilled for a sopuli user
I have stated multiple times the influences on this car I am pointing out are not exclusive, so this is a waste of time to respond to, but I do find it hilarious that you think this car doesn’t reference at least the lincoln town car, we are talking about an era of car design with influences going in all directions, you are making an absurd argument to suggest that I am saying this is exclusively a 'murican thing.
This concept car is CLEARLY heavily influenced by the pre 1997 lincoln town cars… which were also influenced by lots of asian cars, I mean I don’t even like U.S. cars, I have never bought one and likely never will lol so it is funny that you are interpreting me being excited about a concept car from Hyundai as trying to claim it exclusively as a U.S. thing.
Also, I am from the U.S., and these types of cars are everywhere vs. I have definitely never seen a Toyota Century, so like yeah… I don’t mean to make this a U.S. centric conversation but rather point out connections to the culture/landscape I grew up in. The lincoln town car and cars like it were the grandpa car when I was growing up, I am sure you have grandpa cars wherever you live and they are probably a different type of car. Growing up as a USian I never thought of these cars as anything more than grandpa cars, but they are actually pretty cool and I was trying to shed some light on how these cars are more interesting than they seem especially if you don’t know much about U.S. cars to which I think the images I pasted clearly suggest an aesthetic link with this concept car whether it is direct or indirect.
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maybe it’s my view that’s eurocentric! this form factor was never popular in europe, so we never saw them except as imports.
but like, an asian company building a car that’s a throwback to their history as an automaker is quite obviously primarily influenced by their own cars, and cars produced in their area. hence, the Century. No shade on you, obviously, you write very well and structured your post amazingly. it’s just such a common trope.
Anyone who doesn’t love the Grand National needs a smack with a spanner.
To your edit - does Google know your Lemmy account? I have kept mine out of Google’s sight, never logging in on Chrome; not using Gmail in my accounts, or did you do a search that have them the hint?
Thank you for this comment. It was very insightful. I’ve also never seen the Buick GNX, it looks really cool. Not sure how I’ve never come across it.
That thing is fucking insanely fast too, it isn’t a muscle car, well it is in terms of power to weight ratio and ability to put wayyyyy too much power and torque into the rear wheels to be rational it is, but it isn’t an unwieldy tank like true american v8 muscle cars are.
McLaren started with the Grand National’s turbocharged and intercooled V-6, which already produced 245 horsepower (or more, but 245 is Buick’s modest claim), massaging it until 300 horses showed up on the dynamometer. The modifications are straightforward hot-rod stuff: ported and polished heads, a larger turbocharger with a ceramic turbine wheel, a dual exhaust system, a recalibrated PROM (programmable read-only memory) chip for the engine-control computer, and an insulated intercooler outlet tube, which keeps the temperature of the pressurized air from rising after it leaves the intercooler. Maximum boost has been increased to 16 psi, two more than the Grand National’s allotment, but a circuit in the engine-control computer still shuts off the fuel flow at 124 mph. The engine has enough grunt to push the GNX much faster, but Buick engineers feel the chassis wouldn’t tolerate much more speed without taking to the air like a Frisbee. The rest of the engine has been left untouched, a testament to Buick’s confidence in the soundness of the basic design.
Oh look damn, it is automatic, I guess it isn’t a real sports car right? Especially an automatic transmission from 1987? The thing is the way the turbocharger is tuned to SLAM torque into the wheels at low rpms a manual transmission clutch would be fucking toast wayyyy too quick. We are talking drag racing magnitudes of torque/acceleration potential, not normal race car amounts. The automatic transmission is a design choice to allow this thing to be a cruise missile especially at 90+mph.
0-60mph in ~5 seconds, ok fine, fast but nothing extraordinary especially nowadays, but the low 13 second quarter miles this thing can throw out in a near stock Buick GNX speaks to how fast this thing really is. The basic car is still just a buick regal, so yeah it doesn’t handle incredibly, but also it is a very straightforward platform to modify to make it handle better. Modified GNXs can do muchhhh quicker quarter mile times.
Man, $250,000 for the one in the video. It’s a beautiful car though.
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