YOU CANNOT BUY THIS HYUNDAI. YOU HAVE TO BE ASKED.

Hyundai is putting the N Vision 74 into production, and the terms are extraordinary.

Two hundred cars. That is the entire run, built at Ulsan from mid 2026. Most are destined for motorsport. What remains goes to private buyers by invitation only, and the invitation is not issued on the strength of a bank balance. Reporting from Korea indicates buyers must demonstrate genuine motorsport credentials and arrive with peer recommendation. Wealth alone will not open the door.

For a marque that has never built a halo car, it is a remarkable opening position.

The shape is the reason people care. Drawn from the 1974 Pony Coupe concept, itself the work of Giorgetto Giugiaro, the man behind the BMW M1 and the Maserati Merak. Rectangular lamps, a hard wedge silhouette, straight lines that refuse to soften. It looked like nothing else when it appeared in 2022 and it still does.

Beneath it sits something rarer than the styling. This is not a straightforward electric car. Twin hydrogen tanks feed an 85 kW fuel cell working alongside a 62.4 kWh battery on an 800 volt architecture, driving two rear motors with independent torque vectoring. Reports put output near 775 horsepower, nought to one hundred in roughly three seconds, and around 600 km on a hydrogen fill.

Korea’s first hydrogen supercar, in other words, and the first serious argument that hydrogen belongs at the top of the performance market rather than in a delivery fleet.

Patent filings reveal a carbon fibre tunnel running between the seats, housing electrical components and freeing the cabin. There is dedicated stowage for helmet and gloves. The intent could not be clearer.

Estimates place the price somewhere between 300,000 and 375,000 US dollars. Given the allocation rules, the figure may be the least difficult part of ownership.

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