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2008 Hyundai Santa Fe
Hyundai

Hyundai recalls more than 200.000 units

The Koreans may be currently raising the bar and having what's their best sales period for years, but sometimes there are mistakes that come back to haunt you even at the best of times. Perhaps that's what's going on with Hyundai as they are now on the verge of a massive recall on what's one of their early successes the...

2012 Hyundai Veloster
Hyundai

Hyundai Veloster’s price introduced on Twitter

The Koreans at Hyundai seem to be bigger and bigger fans of the micro-blogging platform we all know as Twitter since they've recently shipped out another important detail about the upcoming Veloster on their USA channel. Cutting it short, their tweet said that the 2012 Hyundai Veloster will start at just 17.300 USD and that the full details on pricing...

Renault Samsung SM7
Renault

Renault Samsung SM7 meets the public eye

After a few issues with the French Government, Renault found themselves in the process of making more luxury cars. For an uncommon idea, it's starting to look like inspiration could be coming from South Korea. Going from making cheap hatchbacks to mid-level and luxury cars is something the Koreans have been doing brilliantly lately so Renault could learn quite a...

2011 Hyundai Elantra
Hyundai

Hyundai’s Alabama plant gets more investments

Lately we've been getting a lot of information regarding car makers, but not necessarily of new models or design directions. As Saab fans will clearly know, it's from the world of financing. Saab's financing future is a little shaky but others keep investing to the point where it's actually newsworthy. Another important investment will be made by the Koreans at...

2011 Kia Optima
Kia

Kia’s first quarter is even more than excellent

For some time now we knew that the Koreans were doing pretty well financially but the latest of sales figures proof just how much we might be underestimating Kia. Hard figures suggest that Kia's accountants drew the line at a total profit of $890 million for the first three months of 2011. Given the 465.9 million USD they managed in...