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Hyundai is at the Geneva Motor Show with a concept that is supposed to show off the company’s future design direction. That future, apparently, includes a big stupid grille.

The car is called the Le Fil Rouge, which is French for “common thread,” a nod to how Hyundai is trying to connect its past, present, and future designs with this concept. The company says that the Le Fil Rouge is a “reinterpretation” of the 1974 Hyundai “Pony” Coupe Concept, which set the design for its earliest cars.

In some oblique ways, the body of this new concept resembles that early forebear. The overall silhouette somewhat resembles a more smoothed, stretched-out version of the Pony concept, though with none of the hard angles that were all the rage in the…

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https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/6/17085868/hyundai-le-fil-rouge-concept-geneva-motor-show-2018