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Chung Ju-yung founded Hyundai Motor in 1967 at Ulsan in South Korea. At first it assembled Ford cars under licence. In 1975 it launched its first car designed in Korea. It bought Kia in 1998. Together they now form one of the biggest groups in the world.
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Hyundai
1990–present
Hyundai's compact is called Avante at home but Elantra abroad, as Avante sounded too close to Audi's Avant estates. In Australia and parts of Europe it was first the Lantra, to avoid the Mitsubishi Magna's Elante trim and the Lotus Elan. In Indonesia it was even sold as the Bimantara Nenggala.
Photo: Elise240SX (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Hyundai
2008–2016
Spy photographers caught camouflaged prototypes as early as May 2007, well before Hyundai's first rear-wheel-drive sports coupé went on sale in Korea on 13 October 2008. Hyundai USA's boss, John Krafcik, said it was designed to challenge cars like the Infiniti G37.
Photo: IFCAR (Public domain)
Hyundai
2002–2011
Australia's first commercially available electric car was a Getz: the Blade Electron conversion, sold from 2008 to 2014 for AU$52,000, of which about 50 were built. Elsewhere the Getz changed names: the Click in South Korea, the TB ('Think Basic') in Japan and the Dodge Brisa in Venezuela.
Photo: User:Two hundred percent. (CC BY-SA 3.0)
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