Audi A4 Beats BMW 320d in Korean Girl Pick Up Test
6 Jan 2014, 18:01 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Thanks to the Gungnam Style, Hyuna and popular soap operas, South Korea has become a major player in the world. This also applies to the automotive market and… you thought we were going to t...
Rebadged Captur Receives 1,000 Orders in 7 Minutes in Korea
4 Dec 2013, 10:06 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The rebadged version of Renault Captur was made available under the QM3 name in Korea on November 20 and has become quite a hit. This fifth model in the Renault Samsung lineup targets a younger g...
Korean Commercials for 2014 Kia Soul Are Really Funny
24 Oct 2013, 09:34 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The second generation of the Kia Soul has arrived with more personalization options, which means it's funkier than just about any car in its class. But I'm probably too old to be using wor...
Holden Trax Specifications and Pricing Released in Australia
14 Aug 2013, 12:27 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / You guys might be tempted to think that the Australian market Holden Trax is 100% identical to the Chevy Trax and Opel Mokka sold in Europe, after all, they are all made on the same assembly line. ...
Opel Mokka Production Moving to Spain in 2014
11 Jul 2013, 08:26 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / One month ago to the day, a rumor surfaced suggesting Opel would move production of the Mokka crossover from South Korea, where it's made alongside the Chevrolet Trax. Demand for the "Germ...
Koreans Prove You Can Catch a Baseball in a Chevy Cruze
14 Jun 2013, 11:06 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Up until this moment, we had no idea just how popular baseball is in Korea. We thought the only sport they liked to play is Starcraft, but they have their own national league, which Chevrolet seems ...
Opel Could Move Mokka Production from Korea to Spain
11 Jun 2013, 11:02 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / South Korea has played a crucial role in recent times for General Motors, being responsible for the development of cars like the Chevy Aveo and Spark. The platform used by its 3 subcompact crossover...
K-Pop Star HyunA "Goes Places" in Toyota Corolla · Video
29 Mar 2013, 10:49 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Even though the Harlem Shake is steadily replacing Gangnam Style, our mind still occasionally wonders to the beautiful K-Pop starlet that HyunA, who did her own version of the song with PSY. The ...
Renault Captur Becomes Samsung QM3 in Korea
29 Mar 2013, 09:06 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Renault Samsung Motors unveiled a new urban crossover at the 2013 Seoul Motor Show yesterday. It's called the QM3, but we know it as the Captur, a jacked-up derivative of the Clio. For those...
Chevrolet Trax Coming in Korea, Appears in First Commercials
15 Feb 2013, 15:30 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Chevrolet might be an American brand, but about half their cars or technology comes either from Korea or Germany. One example would be their B-segment crossover, the Trax. It's mechanically ide...
Hyundai Dealer Creates Gungnam Style Ad
9 Jan 2013, 13:46 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Korea is known for two things in this world: cars, Gungnam Style, soaps and a big war. OK, that’s four things, but only the first two are really important and at the same time relevant for thi...
Toyota to Export Venza from US to South Korea
14 Nov 2012, 18:19 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Toyota today announced that the US-assembled Venza compact crossover will is being exported to the South Korean market at a pace of about 600 a year. The 2013 model year Venza is currently produced ...
2013 Kia K3 aka New Forte Receives 20,000 Pre-Orders
12 Nov 2012, 11:50 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Despite only being available in Korea, the new K3 sedan that will replace the Forte is already a success story in its domestic environment. Some 20,000 orders have already been received, according t...
2013 Kia K7 / Cadenza Facelift Revealed
29 Oct 2012, 16:06 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Today, Kia officially revealed the 2013 K7 sedan for the Korean market. This model is a facelift based on the lines of the new K9 (Quoris) flagship and the European Cee’d, which leads us to be...
Hyundai Creates Korean Pop Songs for i30, i40 and Veloster
26 Oct 2012, 12:36 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Hyundai has created a music album with some of the biggest names in K-Pop music in order to promote some of the Automobiles it sells in Europe. The songs draw inspiration from the the all-new i30, t...
Sexy Korean Girl Takes Ride in Lamborghini Gallardo
23 Oct 2012, 15:55 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Because we don’t follow the latest soaps, we were not familiar with the viral power of the Korean media and thought the only automotive material to come from them would be Kias and Hyundais. N...
2013 Kia K7 / Cadenza Facelift First Photos
21 Oct 2012, 08:40 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / In 2009, Kia launched the Cadenza or K7 in South Korea, a full-sized sedan built on the new front-wheel drive Type-N platform shared with the Hyundai Grandeur / Azera. Despite being mainly a Kore...
Sebastian Vettel Does Gangnam Style Dance
15 Oct 2012, 14:22 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / It’s been an interesting weekend for Red Bull. Not only has a new world record for human freefall speed been set by Red Bull Stratos, but the F1 team won in Korea. After the victory of Seba...
Vettel Wins Korean GP
15 Oct 2012, 10:04 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Sebastian Vettel has crowned himself as the victor in the Korean Grand Prix, held on Sunday, around the Korea International Circuit. This is his third win, in just as many races, and it was a domina...
Nissan Brand Heading to Korea
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Nissan today announced that it has expanded its coverage to Korea by launching several models on the local markets in combination with four new showrooms supposed to help the Japanese company gain a...