The rugged Hyundai Crater idea has been revealed on the Los Angeles motor present, exhibiting how the Korean model’s new design language works on a rugged off-roader.
Hyundai Motor America calls it a compact SUV, indicating that is across the dimension of a Tucson; like Hyundai’s mid-size mainstay, it additionally options monocoque building.
The Crater idea might due to this fact preview design parts that may seem on the subsequent Tucson, although a number of the rugged design cues might additionally characteristic on Hyundai’s upcoming Ford Ranger-rivalling body-on-frame ute due within the US by 2030.
Hyundai can be weighing an SUV model of this ute. The model hasn’t supplied a body-on-frame off-road SUV because the Terracan was axed in 2007.
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The Crater is described as an “excessive off-road present car”, combining Hyundai’s new-age pixel design theme with the model’s off-road succesful XRT factory-fit elements and equipment.
Within the US, Hyundai presents XRT variations of the Ioniq 5, Palisade and Santa Cruz ute; in Australia, XRT equipment are supplied on the Santa Fe giant SUV.
The Crater idea’s wild exterior “displays the panorama that it’s impressed by” – with its green-gold matte paint evoking the Southern California terrain.
The chunky appears to be like are bolstered by 18-inch wheels with 33-inch all-terrain tyres inside chunky ‘sheer fender’ formed wheel arches – with a tow-recovery hook doubling as a bottle opener and facet mirrors as flashlights.
Entrance and rear skid plates are built-in neatly, whereas there’s additionally auxiliary lighting and a roof platform for mounting storage or extra equipment.
The cabin sees the rugged theme mixed with tech, with a ‘Crater Man’ character seen all through the cabin throughout soft-touch supplies and daring shapes and colors.
An orange cylindrical sprint contrasts with ‘black ember’ leather-based inside and brushed steel accents, with wraparound leather-based seats embody racing-inspired four-point harness seatbelts and ‘cylindrical cushions’.
Hyundai mentioned the inside is designed to take a critical beating and can patina over time, including to the car’s rugged appears to be like.
There are not any conventional instrument cluster and infotainment screens, with a handful of small sq. shows as an alternative like Hyundai’s Insteroid idea from earlier this yr.
Different funky particulars embody a detachable Bluetooth speaker, seatbelt-strap helps, and a ‘squircle’ steering wheel exhibiting drive modes – Snow, Sand, Mud, Auto and XRT.
There’s additionally a downhill brake controller, trailer brake controller, compass and altimeter, whereas the Crater additionally has a hearth extinguisher and first-aid package and built-in roll cage as an uncovered structural component.
No powertrains have been recommended by Hyundai for the Crater, which stays a design idea.
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