Hyundai 4th Largest
 

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Hyundai-Kia overtakes Ford to become world's 4th largest automaker
by Noah Joseph (RSS feed) on Aug 18th 2009 at 1:20PM


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If you were shocked by the news from around this time last year that the Hyundai-Kia Automotive Group had jumped up to 5th in the global standings of the world's largest car manufacturers, you'll be just as surprised by the latest sales figures that place the Korean automaker this year in the fourth slot, leapfrogging past Ford to slot in (significantly) underneath Volkswagen.

The figures come from the Automotive News Data Center, which places Hyundai-Kia's global sales for the first half of 2009 at 2,153,000 units, just edging out Ford's 2,145,000 units so far this year. Of course, these numbers count the Nissan-Renault Alliance as two separate units, with 1.5 million and 1.1 million units respectively, but if combined they'd knock Hyundai (as well as Ford) out of position with over 2.6 million units. After Toyota, General Motors, Volkswagen, Hyundai and Ford, French automaker PSA Peugeot-Citroen comes in sixth, just barely ahead of Honda, with Nissan in 8th, Suzuki in 9th and Renault rounding out the top ten. Check out Kia's official press release after the jump.

KOREANS DRIVE FORD OUT OF FOURTH PLACE IN GLOBAL MANUFACTURER RANKING

Kia Motors (UK) Ltd. is pleased to announce that parent company, Hyundai-Kia Automotive Group, has become the fourth largest global automotive manufacturer, according to data just published.

Based on figures from the Automotive News Data Centre, the Korean manufacturer has overtaken Ford which saw it's sales fall by more than 30 per cent in the first half of 2009, selling 8,000 more vehicles than the US giant in the first half of 2009.

Results for all of last year saw Hyundai-Kia trail Ford by around 1,000,000-units, but by reducing the impact of the global recession by producing the right product for the right times, the group has managed to take fourth place much quicker than had been predicted.

Go back just 10 years and the newly unified company was in 11th place overall, but rapid globalisation has seen state of the art factories being built in several countries including Slovakia, the United States and China. The manufacturing facilities have been geared-up to build products that are designed and engineered for local markets. The Kia cee'd is a leading example, being designed, developed and engineered in Germany and built in Slovakia.


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i'm surprised to see honda and nissan near the bottom...

Their cars keep getting better and better, well done!

yet i still wouldnt even consider one


surprised hondas and nissans are at the buttom


JDM > KDM

You said it! .....except the buttom part.

USDM > *DM !!

Hummer , Escalade , Navigator , Denali , Challenger , Camero are where its at!

chrysler is nonexistent on the list... the end is near :o

fire sale on challenger srt-8's!!! :lol

why is peugeot and citroen grouped together? if they were separate, would they not be on this list?

Wow.. I had no idea! It's funny then how Peugeot and Citroën are racing against each other in the WRC...

Really surprised honda is below peugeot/citroen

this statistics actually makes sense. I've been seeing more and more Hyundai on the road.

yes and no...

sure there are more Hyundai in NA...the sales actually booming in asia-pacific area.
hyundai sells more commercial used vehicles in asia these few years.
Hyundai H1 is getting more popular than the Toyota Hi-ace
Hyundai Sonata > Toyota Camry
they are very affordable yet quality is not cheap at all