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Hyundai
Every year the students at the
Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) in Turin work up something new to unveil at the
Geneva Motor Show. It's usually a concept for an Italian automaker (like the
Alfa Romeo Gloria, the
Cisitalia 202 E or the
Abarth ScorpION) or at least something European (like
the concepts they worked up with McLaren or
the ones they did for Aston Martin). But this time they've wandered a little farther from home in designing a sports car for
Hyundai.
It's called the
PassoCorto - Italian for "short wheelbase" - and it was designed in collaboration between the grad students in the Master in Transportation Design program (under the supervision of
Pininfarina design Luca Borgogno) and the Hyundai's European design center.
The design (theoretically) calls for a 1.6-liter twin-turbo four, mounted amidships and driving 266 horsepower to the rear wheels. It looks pretty promising, and if Hyundai were ever keen on taking on the likes of the
Alfa Romeo 4C and
Porsche Cayman, this strikes us as a damn good place to start.
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