1975 Hyundai Pony

The first and second generation Hyundai Pony (1975-1990), ancestor of the i30, was the first Hyundai exported outside the borders of its country of origin, South Korea. The first generation was marketed until 1982 and the second from that year until 1990.

With a design that was not very oriental and to a certain extent "known", its raison d'être was that, in addition to development engineers and personnel of British origin -- mainly from British Leyland, where the one who was hired as development director of the Pony came from -- its design was the work of Giorgetto Giugiaro's Italdesign.

Presented at the 1974 Turin Motor Show as a five-door hatchback version, a year later it would also be marketed as a sedan - although visually it looked like a hatchback, it had a small door for the trunk, an element that would open next to the rear glass by 1981 and disappear as a sedan.