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[flat4alfa]

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Shown at Frankfurt Motor Show on two weeks back

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Hyundai’s 45 electric concept car

“Inspired by looking back at the brand’s first model in the 1970s"

My first thought looking at the body shape and taillights was “DeLorean DMC-12.” But a more direct analog is the 1974 Pony Coupe

Pony?  Well.  That's not what I see.

 

What do you see?

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[Mally]

Ambassador.

[flat4alfa]

11 minutes ago, Mally said:

Ambassador.

Shirley not

[Supernaut]

50 minutes ago, Mally said:

Ambassador.

Looks more Princess to me.

[Mally]

26 minutes ago, Supernaut said:

Looks more Princess to me.

Splitting hairs.

 

[Mally]

1 hour ago, flat4alfa said:

Shirley not

That's a 'kin Oxford. No wonder it looks crap.

[dollywobbler]

4 minutes ago, Mally said:

Splitting hairs.

 

Not really. The Ambassador has extra side windows, so doesn't have the matching C pillar treatment, and also has different lights. I love how this thing nods to the Princess. Glory days! I hope it has hydragas suspension.

[Mally]

Yes, but I've had an Ambassador.

It was great while it lasted, which isn't saying much.

[vulgalour]

*nerd* Acshually, the Ambassador is very nearly a completely new car and only shares some parts with the Princess.  Most of the rear end was completely reworked to accept the tailgate, and the only interchangable panel between the two cars is the front doors and even those have different mirror arrangements. *nerd*

[GrumpiusMaximus]

It’s a bit like choosing between cheddar and Wensleydale.  Both are wedges with a slightly different tang...

[Asimo]

I see a wannabe Evoque, which is bad, but it is nice to see some sharp lines.

I've had an Ambassador as well. Good car, bad seats.

It should have been a six cylinder* but it is said that the E-series wouldn't fit under the Ambassador's  bonnet. Doh!

 

**This is true of most 4 cylinder cars. Nasty, buzzy things, 4 cylinder engines.

[anonymous user]

35 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

It’s a bit like choosing between cheddar and Wensleydale.  Both are wedges with a slightly different tang...

Wensleydale is nothing like Cheddar.

[HMC]

Tvr tasmin from the rear 3/4 view, if not the overbodied look relative to wheelbase/ wheels. Renault 17 coupe front end treatment

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, vulgalour said:

*nerd* Acshually, the Ambassador is very nearly a completely new car and only shares some parts with the Princess.  Most of the rear end was completely reworked to accept the tailgate, and the only interchangable panel between the two cars is the front doors and even those have different mirror arrangements. *nerd*

...yes in effect only carrying over just the front door skins.  Everything else was either new or substantially altered, which meant it was a far more thorough redesign than the Marina’s earlier makeover to create the Ital

BL said the programme cost £29m (£109m today).  Two years production, just 43,427 units built.  Forgetting that even the top of the range VdP version lacked a rev-counter, there was not even a 5-speed gearbox.  Such was its lack of popularity, it was not even produced in left-hand-drive form

Ambassador arse, for nerdish comparisons

[flat4alfa]

43 minutes ago, Asimo said:

It should have been a six cylinder* but it is said that the E-series wouldn't fit under the Ambassador's  bonnet. Doh!

Designed to be that way, E-series was a poor seller and not that frugal, so it was designed-out so the bonnet line could be lower and thus an improve the aerodynamic Cd

....negated by making the hidden wipers becoming unhidden.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

8 minutes ago, anonymous user said:

Wensleydale is nothing like Cheddar.

Inasmuch as the Ambassador shares very little with the Princess...

[flat4alfa]

2 hours ago, Mally said:

That's a 'kin Oxford. No wonder it looks crap.

while I'm Ramblering..

[RayMK]

All I can see is an ugly thing with spray-on tyres and tiny windows.  

[Mally]

1 hour ago, flat4alfa said:

...yes in effect only carrying over just the front door skins.  Everything else was either new or substantially altered, which meant it was a far more thorough redesign than the Marina’s earlier makeover to create the Ital

BL said the programme cost £29m (£109m today).  Two years production, just 43,427 units built.  Forgetting that even the top of the range VdP version lacked a rev-counter, there was not even a 5-speed gearbox.  Such was its lack of popularity, it was not even produced in left-hand-drive form

Ambassador arse, for nerdish comparisons

See, it's almost the same colour as well.

[Sausage5000]

Looks like a modern day washing machine, or kitchen appliance.

It will look even blander once it’s released with a blobbier crumple zones, US spec headlights and 5 foot high pedestrian friendly front end, and sat under grey February skies in a fifteen mile gridlocked m6 with 18 stone middle management Marcus at the wheel.