SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The GV80, the first sports utility vehicle (SUV) produced by Hyundai Motor Co.’s Genesis marque, is drawing the attention of even company employees. Hyundai hosted a test drive for all management staff at company headquarters on Thursday. As many as 1,560 employees applied for 160 seats available for the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. said Wednesday it aims to sell 24,000 GV80 models, the first sport utility vehicle under its independent Genesis marquee, in South Korea. The GV80 is the fourth model of the Genesis lineup, which is currently composed of the G70, G80 and G90 sedans. “The Genesis’s first [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group, South Korea’s biggest carmaker by sales, said Wednesday it will launch the Genesis GV80 SUV in the domestic market this month to strengthen its SUV lineup. Hyundai has released the first images of the GV80, the first SUV model to be sold under Hyundai’s independent Genesis [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of Hyundai Motor Co.’s independent brand Genesis models jumped 57 percent in the United States in the January-August period from a year earlier, the carmaker said Friday. Hyundai sold 13,350 Genesis vehicles in the world’s most important automobile market in the first eight months, up from 8,490 units [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Genesis, the independent luxury brand of Hyundai Motor Co., said Monday it has introduced its premium city car concept at a U.S. luxury car exhibition. Genesis displayed the “Mint Concept” at Monterey Car Week 2019, which was held in Monterey, California from Aug. 14-18 (local time), Genesis said in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. said Wednesday it has set up a sales subsidiary in China for the sale of its independent Genesis brand luxury vehicles. The move is part of the South Korean carmaker’s stepped-up efforts to revive sales in the world’s biggest automobile market. Its sales in China fell [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co.’s premium Genesis marque topped Consumer Reports’ 2018 ranking for luxury auto brands, the company said Friday. The Genesis took the No. 1 spot in the U.S. magazine’s ranking scale followed by German rivals Audi and BMW, a Hyundai Motor spokesman said. He said Genesis vehicles exceeded [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s biggest carmaker by sales, said Thursday it will open an exhibition hall in Seoul to promote its sub-brand Genesis models. In the two-story Genesis Gangnam exhibition hall, which is set to open Saturday in the affluent Gangnam district in southern Seoul, visitors will be [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s largest carmaker by sales, said Monday it has strengthened its sub-brand Genesis lineup by adding a new model to help stimulate sales. The standalone brand launched the latest version of the G80 sedan equipped with either a 3.3-liter, a 3.3-liter turbo-charged, or a 3.8-liter [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. said Thursday it will launch an all-new fuel-cell electric SUV in South Korea early next year as part of its broader plan to diversify its lineup with more environment friendly vehicles. The country’s biggest carmaker by sales introduced its first fuel-cell electric car based on the [...]