Hyundai seems keen to make the link between the Ioniq 6′s streamliner styling and the art-deco look of the 1930s and 1940s, photographing it with a propellor-driven Douglas airliner from the 1940s.Are you missing Saab? Since the demise of the Swedish car maker in 2011, many have lamented its passing, but Hyundai seems intent on bringing back some of that Scandinavian style with this, the new Ioniq 6.
The styling does have some modern touches, of course. The wing mirrors can be optionally replaced by slim, wind-cheating cameras, while the brake light bar that runs the full width of the boot uses the same cube-like ‘Parametric Pixel’ design as the Ioniq 5.That teardrop shape, in spite of being 150mm taller than the Hyundai Prophecy concept that inspired the Ioniq 6′s styling , is very aerodynamically efficient, with a drag coefficient of 0.21Cd — comparable to that of the Mercedes EQE.
That slippery shape should bring with it range benefits. Hyundai — which was stung into revealing the 6 early thanks to leaked images on the internet — isn’t giving away any technical details yet. However, we do know that it uses the same E-GMP platform as the bulkier Ioniq 5. The steering wheel includes four pixel-style lights that Hyundai says ‘enable easy communication between the driver and vehicle’