Dead at 21: Why Would God Take Such a Promising Life?

[Firebird]

At the time it was sold in Canada (mid-80s), the Hyundai Pony was a rebadged Hyundai Excel

Since when?

Pony:

Excel:

They were completely different cars.

Did you guys ever get the Hyundai Stellar?

One of the great oxymoronic car names. Up there with Suzuki Swift.

I don't think the Renault Espace was ever sold in North America.

Nope, never.

 

[1X83Z]

It's interesting that not a single one of those pictures managed to show up.

I think the Pony was a rebadged US Hyundai, though until I see the pictures I can't be sure of which one. We never got the Stellar.

 

[Firebird]

Yeah, the only decent pics of the Pony I could find were on cardomain.com, and they don't particularly like having their bandwidth stolen.

The first four are Ponies (Ponys?); the last two arean Excel.

 

[1X83Z]

Was the Pony ever a sedan?

 

[Firebird]

All I remember was the frumpy 5-door hatchback.

 

[Firebird]

Actually, now that I think about it, the Stellar was basically a Pony in sedan form, with a new grille and headlights.

 

[1X83Z]

Man that thing looks bad.

 

[Duke]

All I remember was the frumpy 5-door hatchback.

Ahhh, so now we know what Volkswagen/Audi did with the tooling from the 1975 Dasher/Fox.

 

[Firebird]

As far as I know it was basically unchanged from the original Pony introduced in Korea in the mid-'70s. A lot of the mechanicals are borrowed from other cars. The chassis was borrowed from Ford of Europe (the Cortina's chassis, I think), while the drivetrain was '70s-fare Mitsubishi.

(The engines in particular were the G33B (1.4L) and G32B (1.6L) Mitsubishis. They were so old they preceeded the conventional Mitsubishi code scheme (i.e., 4G63 or 6G72))