LG Corp.’s announcement that it will jointly build electric cars with General Motors Friday is brining hope to Renault Samsung, which wants to sell the vehicles here. However, the debate over next-generation cars remains very much alive with Hyundai on the hybrid side.Lee Ki-sang, director of Hyunda

Ingolstadt, Germany (DPA) ― Audi has revealed an ultra-light concept car designed for congested urban areas combining what it says are elements of a racing car, a fun car and an urban car fitted intoa radical new idea. Audi urban conceptOrientated strictly on light weight construction the wheels are

Munich (DPA) ― BMW is offering the X3 Sports Activity Vehicle with an extended range of engines promising more performanceand greater fuel efficiency as well as options including a real-timetraffic information function. BMW X3From the European autumn this year the X3 will come with a choiceof three

Global automaker Volvo is recalling 447 cars in South Korea due to a detective hose that could lead to leakage of power steering fluid, the government said Thursday. Volvo-S80The vehicles subject to the recall are the S80 passenger sedans produced between March 8, 2006, and May 16, 2007, according t

Kia Motors Corp. and GM Korea Co. have been in keen competition to dominate the growing “city car” market at home as high fuel prices continue to burden households.According to the Korea Automobile Manufacturers Association, local sales of automobiles with engine displacements of up to 1 liter grew

Toyota Motor Corp.’s Lexus, set to lose its position as the top-selling U.S. luxury car brand after 11 years, is revamping its line to regain sales lost to Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz and Bayerische Motoren Werke AG’s BMW. The 2013 Lexus GS 350 goes on sale in February with a new look, larger interio

 Diesel-powered mid-sized sedans are growing ever more popular among a slew of new models launched this year.Diesel cars took up more than 30 percent of the import market share for the first time in July, Korea Auto Industries Corp. Association said.The economically cheaper option has been in h

Foreign carmakers are expected to capture 10 percent of Korea’s automobile market in about a year after they saw the market share surpass 1 percent for the first time in 2002.Buoyed by active sales of smaller sized sedans among newcomers such as Peugeot and Honda Motor in early 2000s, import vehicle

Hyundai Motor and Kia Motor are posting a rapid growth in sales of hybrid sedans at home, following outstanding performances in the U.S. market.In July, about 15 percent of Hyundai-Kia’s customers who purchased the automakers’ Sonata and K5 picked the hybrid version of the sedans, Hyundai Motor Grou

Japanese automaker introduces new models to attract consumersNissan is set to wage a sales battles with German automakers in Korea by aggressively marketing its Infiniti series and the Cube, a characteristic box-like model.The second-largest automaker in Japan has set the goal of making the Infiniti series become one of the top three import brands in the premium luxury segment.“We are mapping out

The Actyon of Ssangyong Motor Co.At Ssangyong Motor Co., South Korea’s third-largest maker of sport utility vehicles, just about everything that could go wrong did in the past two decades. The company switched owners four times, faced bankruptcy and suffered one of the most violent strikes in modern Korean history in 2009. Workers in that clash took control of a plant for almost three months, usin