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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.
Ok, I love it, clearly this thing is a futuristic love letter to the 1996 lincoln town car, the best 'Murican car ever made
Anyone who doesn’t love the Grand National needs a smack with a spanner.
I don’t like them. Then again I like Trabants, Rover Metros, series land rovers and zaphorezyets.
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.
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.
https://youtu.be/kIPU4TLDyRw
Man, $250,000 for the one in the video. It’s a beautiful car though.
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.
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?