Hyundai Pony
Overview
Automobile
An automobile, autocar, motor car or car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor...
produced by the Hyundai Motor Company
Hyundai Motor Company
Hyundai Motor Company is a Korean multinational automaker based in Seoul, South Korea which, along with Kia, comprises the Hyundai Kia Automotive Group, the world's fourth largest automaker as of 2009. As of 2011, it is the world's fastest growing automaker for two years running...
from 1975 to 1988 (until 1990 in South Korea).
When Hyundai
Hyundai Motor Company
Hyundai Motor Company is a Korean multinational automaker based in Seoul, South Korea which, along with Kia, comprises the Hyundai Kia Automotive Group, the world's fourth largest automaker as of 2009. As of 2011, it is the world's fastest growing automaker for two years running...
wanted to develop their own car, they hired George Turnbull
George Turnbull (autoindustry executive)
Sir George Henry Turnbull, CEng, FIMechE was a UK automobile executive best remembered in the UK for his period as Managing Director of the Austin-Morris Division of British Leyland....
, the former Managing Director of Austin Morris at British Leyland. He in turn hired five other top British car engineers, Kenneth Barnett body design, engineers John Simpson and Edward Chapman, John Crosthwaite
John Crosthwaite
John Crosthwaite was an English race car designer and engineer, active in both the United Kingdom and the United States.John worked with Cooper Cars, Colin Chapman at Team Lotus, and Mickey Thompson as well as drivers Graham Hill, Dan Gurney, and Jackie Stewart. He designed and built cars for...
as chassis engineer and Peter Slater as chief development engineer.
