Hyundai BLUE-WILL plug-in hybrid concept debuts in Seoul
By Donald Melanson 
posted March 25th 2009 3:07PM
posted March 25th 2009 3:07PM
Hyundai recently broke a few molds with its dolphin-inspired cellphone, and it now looks to be doing the same with its latest plug-in hybrid concept, which is set to make its public debut at the Seoul Motor Show next week. Of course, Hyundai isn't just letting the car, dubbed the BLUE-WILL, get by on those eye-catching lines alone, with it also cramming a direct-inject 1.6-liter gas engine with a CVT transmission and a 100kw electric motor under the hood, and taking a number of other measures to make the vehicle even more eco-minded. That includes some solar cells on the panoramic roof, which you can still see through, and some eco-friendly plastics throughout, including headlamp bezels made from recycled plastic bottles, and other plastics derived from plant extracts. No word about it actually going into production, of course, but you can get a bit of a closer look by hitting up the link below.
The lines (creases) are a weight saving measure. They stiffen panels that would otherwise be too thin and flexible.
If they can make enough weight-saving through this, the aero effieciency won't matter so much.
The Prius is one butt-ugly car though.
Concept car, meaning the chances of this actually coming to market is practically zero. Hence completely irrelevant for anyone interested in cars you can actually buy.
What is a concept car "debut" by the way? A debut for what? Showing off is all a concept car does. They don´t do anything else!
finally make something worth looking at
Pfffff who gives a f*** concept cars are never commericalized. Stop teasing me and make something like that for sale!!!!
American cars will never win..
That's just the hard truth.
great, now as long as they remember to conceptualize some door handles hahaha
I WANT ONE
Oh, is this Honda? lol
I wonder why many korean companies steal japanese ideas and technologies.
It's time the world should notice the korean dirty tricks.
Fuck you Hyundai come up with something fucking original. That couldn't be more of a ripped off copy if I've ever seen one.
I love the design of this car. I hope it makes it to production without too many changes.
The design of this car and/or its name is inspired by a Blue Whale (Blue Will), right? It certainly looks the part - the front, and those beautiful lines on the side are very wave-like. Very impressive. And, In a pinch, you can sift tons of krill through the radiator, but the horn is really eerie sounding. :-) (long work-up for that joke).
Beautiful.....
Grotesque, evil, horrid, self loathing, the Joker.
Rivals the Aztec and Pacer as ugliest ever created.
The lines down the side are vestigal running boards on acid.
The lines are pointless, serve no function, exist only flaunt the ego of the
likely fancy schooled designer.
Relentlessly horrible.
It looks like a facelift gone horribly wrong.
The advantage goes to Hyundai because it won't take them years and years to put this into production, a-la the Chevy Volt.
more like Blue Whale... Eeeew.