The Saturn Sky roadster is apparently GM's two-seater for the global market (sorry, Solstice). A version has already found its way into the Opel lineup as the Opel GT. Now, GM's Korean connection Daewoo's getting its own Sky. Make that the G2X. First shown at the Seoul motor show earlier this year, the G2X will get the …
Kia Soul in the US Southwest
Early in 2006, we saw the Kia Soul
Another Side to the C'eed: Kia Reveals Back of Hatch
It may just look like the rear section of a run-of-the-mill European hatchback to you, but to Kia it's yet another facet of its new C'eed three-door, the company's most important model in the grab-a-piece-of Europe sweepstakes. Earlier this month we saw the front
Kia Reveals Three-Door Cee'd
It may not look like a big deal, but the Kia C'eed three-door hatch is the most significant vehicle to hit European shores since that 1911 Gräf & Stift Rois De Blougne tourer blew a rod, killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand and subsequently starting World War I. Maybe not quite that, but the C'eed three door is significant…
The Grim Life Of Korean Designated Drivers
We've all heard about various services that let folks who've swilled a few too many Everclear-and-Hawaiian-Punch cocktails dial a number and have a sober driver show up to drive them home in their own cars (Top Gear has documented such a service in London, for example). However, the South Korean version of this service …
Jalopnik Reviews: Kia Rondo Korean BBQ Tour, Part 1
One of the more inane ways to review an automobile is to lambaste the machine for something it was never designed to be. Carping about how a Lancer Evolution rides harshly, or has a budget interior is an example of this phenomenon. Tom McCahill wouldn't pull such shenanigans, and neither will we. With that bit of…
You Say Jeep, I Say Ssangyong Korando!
You like macho announcers and cheezoid Casio-derived action-movie music in your car ads? Korea's the place! This ad for the Ssangyong Korando, a license-built CJ-7 clone built in the 80s and early 90s, shows what a reliable horse-outrunning, trailer-towing machine looks like. Korando!
Hyundai Shows Dealers How To Sell RWD Vehicles
It used to be so easy being a Hyundai dealer — they've never had to sell a vehicle with anything but front-wheel or all-wheel drive. So we're glad to see the Korean company's helping their sales staff understand the differences between the various drivetrains as they ready the Genesis — their first V8-powered…
Seoul Motor Show: Renault-Samsung QMX
It's the Quest Motoring Experience, and it's a version of the Renault Koleos mini SUV for the Korean market. And by Korean market, we don't mean the place where we get our coffee, energy bars and the odd onion or copy of Sport Compact Car. It's got Renault's spanky 1.7-liter turbodiesel four under the hood, producing…
Seoul Motor Show: The GM Daewoo L4X
The amortizing of GM's Holden-built rear-drive Zeta platform continues on the Korean Peninsula. It's a rear-drive show car dubbed the L4X, intro'd at the Seoul auto show this week, amid well-dressed salarymen and the prom queens who sweat them. The pre-production model, whose design is based on several Holden models…
Hyundai Going Luxe? Carmaker "Not Ruling Out" Upper-Class Brand
If the sign of an automaker's maturity is the launch of an upscale brand, Hyundai may be preparing for its Bar Mitzvah. According to the Road not without bend, Hyundai hasn't ruled out creating a Lexusian marque under which to sell a line of upmarket autos. That word came from a Hyundai rep at a Veracruz test drive…
GM-Daewoo Limits Self To Only 30 Booth Babes At 2007 Seoul Motor Show
Some automakers are users and abusers of the "booth babes," including them in displays in order to create a visceral reaction from the high horsepower cars and attractive women perched atop them. The automakers that employ them are all over using them because they want the auto writing media folks to do two things —…
Korea To Get Engrish-Version "Corvetts?"
We're assuming this is some kind of odd translation error or perhaps the short distance between the "s" and the "e" keys, and doesn't actually signal a change in naming convention for the Korean market. Or, maybe it's just a Freudian slip of some sort about this
Spy Photos: Hyundai Equus Coming to New York
Later this year, Hyundai will up its ante in the US car market, to include a car in the $30,000 range. If you've been following along, you'll know the car may be called the Equus, in reference to the company's Equus concept shown in 2002, and the executive car of the same name Hyundai sells to Korean salarymen and…
Daewoo LeMans Commercial, Plus Holy Crap! Airwolf!
We knew this Daewoo-built vehicle wasn't only sold in the US to desecrate the name of Le Mans; it was also sold as the Opel Kadett (a name virtually impossible to malign), as well as under the Vauxhall banner. What we didn't know is that the Koreans also sold it under their own badge as the LeMans. But they did make …
As If You Hadn't Seen It: Hyundai Reveals Veracruz Crossover
Hyundai's released more shots of its Veracruz LUV (for those playing along at home, that's a CUV with leather seats). All pwning aside, the Veracruz looks like a contender in the luxury realm, with headlight washers, LED taillights, and park-assist system. Watchers expect Hyundai's 3.8-liter V6 to be offered along…
Pre-Release Action: Hyundai Veracruz
Hyundai's set to reveal its seven-passenger Veracruz crossover to the Korean market (and thus, the world), but Carscoop got there first. The site scored some leaked shots of the new Hyundai people-mover ahead of its official introduction this week. As has been reported, the Veracruz will get Hyundai's 3.8 liter V6…
Spy Photos: More on the Kia Rio Hybrid
Our Kia Rio hybrid tipster says some of the shots he received in his P.O. box have surfaced on CarSpyShots, including one showing the dash gauges (pictured). You'll notice the "charge/assist" gauge, which either means the model's got a hybrid-drive system, or someone's Korean-to-English dictionary has some pages stuck…
