SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Sales of Hyundai Motor‘s Tucson compact SUV are expected to surpass 4 million units later this month, 11 years after it first hit the road, industry data showed Sunday. According to the data, the South Korean auto company had sold slightly over a cumulative 3.95 million units of the Tucson [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s top carmaker, is considering setting up a second plant in the United States in an effort to up its production of full-size vehicles in line with rising demand in the world’s No. 1 economy, industry sources said Wednesday. The new factory, which would be [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Ssangyong Motor Co. has sold more than 8,000 Tivoli compact sport utility vehicles in less than a month after its debut, possibly making it one of the biggest hit models for this year, market data showed Wednesday. Ssangyong Motor, the smallest carmaker in South Korea, started to sell the [...]
SEOUL, Dec 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Ford Korea is presenting an unusual marketing event targeting food connoisseurs. Since November this year jointly with magazine Bar & Dining, the sales unit of the Ford Motor Company of the United States has been giving out 150,000-won dining vouchers to its test driving customers who can pick and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – A photo of a vehicle thought to be Ssangyong Motor’s new Tivoli compact SUV is making rounds on the Internet. The Tivoli will be officially rolled out in mid-January next year. On December 9, on an online bulletin for auto-lovers, a photo of the rear of an SUV that clearly [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Infiniti started selling its flagship SUV model “New QX80″ in Korea from November 21. The Infiniti QX80 is the luxury large-size SUV model embedded with state-of-the-art convenience and safety specs. It boasts the length of 530.5 centimeters and width of 203.0 centimeters. The new model comes with a 5.6-liter V8 [...]
![[Photo] Ssangyong Motor Unveils Rendering Image for Its New XIV Series](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ss1.jpg "[Photo] Ssangyong Motor Unveils Rendering Image for Its New XIV Series")
SEOUL, Sep. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The rendering images of XIV-Air and XIV-Adventure, final versions of Ssangyong Motor Company’s XIV series were unveiled for the first time today. The concept sport utility vehicles will be making their debut at the 2014 Paris Motor Show slated for next month. The company said “The two concepts will [...]
Göteborg, Sweden, July 8, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–Volvo Car’s all-new XC90 will offer an unrivalled combination of power and clean operation when it is launched later this year. The all-wheel drive, seven seater offers drivers up to 400 horsepower but with carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of around 60 g/km (NEDC driving cycle). There has never been [...]
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Jun. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The 2014 Hyundai Tucson topped the Compact Crossover SUV category in the 2014 AutoPacific Vehicle Satisfaction Awards (VSA). AutoPacific’s VSA measures how satisfied an owner is with his/her new vehicle. AutoPacific’s VSAs objectively measure owner satisfaction with 50 separate attributes ranging from interior comfort and convenience to [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Jan 20 (Korea Bizwire) – There are some athletes who play better in international matches while putting up mediocre performance at home. In the same way, there are some car models that sell well overseas while selling fewer than 10,000 units domestically. The Kia Soul is one of such models. Last year, the [...]