SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Chem Ltd., South Korea’s leading chemical and battery maker, said Sunday that it has signed a deal to supply electric vehicle batteries to a major SUV company in China. Under the deal signed with Great Wall Motor, LG Chem will supply batteries for plug-in electric SUV models that [...]
SEOUL, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Land Rover’s new Discovery Sport model has seen its number of pre-orders reach more than 1,000. Jaguar Land Rover Korea said that the company has been accepting pre-orders since December of last year, and that delivery would take four to six months for customers who place orders now, at the [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Ssangyong Motor Co. started exporting its Tivoli sport utility vehicle on Tuesday as it hopes to repeat its strong performance here in overseas markets, industry sources said. Ssangyong Motor began shipments of the Tivoli SUV toward Europe and Latin American countries, with more than 2,000 units bound for the [...]
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 [...]