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No automotive comeback story of the past half-century beats Korea's. In the 1980s the first Hyundai Excel to reach America was a cheap, flimsy punchline; a few decades later Hyundai Motor Group, which owns Hyundai, Kia and the luxury brand Genesis, ranks among the largest car companies on earth and routinely embarrasses older rivals on design, technology and value. Its cars win comparison tests, its electric models charge faster than most, and its showrooms in America, Europe and India are packed with buyers who once would not have looked twice.
The climb was deliberate. Hyundai began assembling Fords in the late 1960s, built its own Pony in the 1970s and entered the American market in 1986. Quality problems prompted a bold fix: a ten-year, 100,000-mile powertrain warranty that persuaded skeptics to take a chance. Hyundai took control of a struggling Kia after the late-1990s Asian financial crisis, then hired European design talent and engineers from BMW's M division to sharpen styling and handling. Genesis became a standalone luxury brand in 2015, aimed squarely at Lexus and the Germans.
Today the group builds cars in Korea, the United States, India, Europe and elsewhere, including large factories in Alabama and Georgia, among them a dedicated EV and hybrid plant near Savannah. Its E-GMP electric platform underpins the Hyundai Ioniq 5 and Ioniq 6, the Kia EV6 and EV9 and electric Genesis models, and its hybrids are among the most popular in America. It also invests in hydrogen fuel cells, robotics and air mobility, and faces the same tariff, labor and EV-demand questions as every global maker.
Korea's car industry also includes smaller players such as KG Mobility, Renault Korea and GM Korea, but Hyundai, Kia and Genesis dominate the headlines. Follow the brands here for new-model reveals, reviews and awards, monthly sales records, recalls, factory and investment news, India market moves and the steady stream of electric-vehicle announcements that keep the group at the front of the industry conversation, along with the occasional reminder of how far the Excel's descendants have come.
Hyundai, Kia and Genesis: the Korean carmakers that went from punchline to pacesetter, now leading on design, hybrids and fast-charging EVs.
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