Photo: Hyundai
In the auto industry we're used to having car concepts with flamboyant, abstract or wacky names. If anything, a concept's name is part of the design, an element that makes the car what it is, and usually among the first to be revealed. It's not very often that we get to see one wearing no name when presented.
At the 2019 Los Angeles Auto Show later this month, Hyundai will be showing a new plug-in hybrid SUV concept, the seventh designed by the carmaker's design center. The first images were released on Wednesday, November 13, accompanied (for now) by the dullest name ever to be slapped on a such a build: Plug-in Hybrid SUV Concept.
And it's not like the designers didn't have better ideas. When it comes to describing the car, magnificent and weird constructions are used, things like Parametric Fantasy and Transcendent Connectivity.
Supposedly, Parametric Fantasy and Transcendent Connectivity are the phrases used to describe how all of the Concept's surfaces connect the body with “either light or trim features.” We're not sure what that is supposed to mean.
The only thing we think we understand from the short official statement about the SUV, riddled by the abusive use of caps in weird places – see it in the press release section below – is the fact that the car has a shape-shifting grille of sorts.
This is made from number of cells that depending on whether the car is moving or not can open and rearrange themselves in a prescribed sequence, providing both shifting looks and airflow to the powertrain. A powertrain that has not been detailed in any way.
Chances are by the end of the month we'll learn a lot more about the SUV, and hopefully we'll get to know it under a different, more imposing name. That name could be Vision T, judging by one of the two photos released this week.
And it's not like the designers didn't have better ideas. When it comes to describing the car, magnificent and weird constructions are used, things like Parametric Fantasy and Transcendent Connectivity.
Supposedly, Parametric Fantasy and Transcendent Connectivity are the phrases used to describe how all of the Concept's surfaces connect the body with “either light or trim features.” We're not sure what that is supposed to mean.
The only thing we think we understand from the short official statement about the SUV, riddled by the abusive use of caps in weird places – see it in the press release section below – is the fact that the car has a shape-shifting grille of sorts.
This is made from number of cells that depending on whether the car is moving or not can open and rearrange themselves in a prescribed sequence, providing both shifting looks and airflow to the powertrain. A powertrain that has not been detailed in any way.
Chances are by the end of the month we'll learn a lot more about the SUV, and hopefully we'll get to know it under a different, more imposing name. That name could be Vision T, judging by one of the two photos released this week.
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