Hyundai

Hyundai Motor Company

Founded: 1967
Origin: South Korea
Nameplates: 4

Founded in Seoul in December 1967 by Chung Ju-yung, Hyundai began building cars under licence from Ford before launching the Pony in 1975 (the first mass-produced South Korean car sold under a Korean brand).^[1] It closes a real gap in this catalogue’s origin taxonomy: no South Korean marque had previously been catalogued here.

Hyundai is the flagship brand of the Hyundai Motor Group, which also owns Kia and the luxury marque Genesis; Hyundai itself is now one of the world’s largest carmakers by volume, with plants across Asia, Europe and the Americas.

Identity

Country of origin: South Korea
Founded: 1967
Owns: Kia
Website: hyundai.com

Nameplates (4)

Computed from every entry that names this brand, never a hand-maintained list. Each nameplate is a hub over its own generations.

Cars (8)

Every generation and halo trim from this brand, with the figures each one carries. Sort by any column; a car we have not sourced a figure for sorts last rather than as a zero.

8 of 8

Body style

Era

Cars from Hyundai

Hyundai Accent (BN7) BN7	2023–	118 kW	8.1 s	—	—
Hyundai Accent (X3) X3	1994–1999	74 kW	—	—	953 kg
Hyundai i10 (AC3) AC3	2019–	74 kW	10.5 s	185 km/h	—
Hyundai i10 (PA) PA	2007–2015	48 kW	—	—	—
Hyundai i30 (FD) FD	2007–2012	103 kW	10.3 s	205 km/h	—
Hyundai i30 (PD) PD	2016–	103 kW	8.9 s	210 km/h	—
Hyundai Tucson (JM) JM	2004–2009	129 kW	10.4 s	180 km/h	—
Hyundai Tucson (NX4) NX4	2020–	132 kW	8.8 s	201 km/h	—

Sources & attribution

Last verified: 2026-09-08
Origin axis: South Korea

Logo: File:Hyundai Motor Company logo.svg · Hyundai Motor Company. Displayed unmodified to identify this manufacturer's own vehicles, editorially and without any suggestion of endorsement or affiliation. Commons records the file as public domain for copyright purposes; the basis for display here is trademark nominative use, not a copyright licence.

Accent colour: Sampled from the dark blue fill (#003984) used for the H badge in the badge's own SVG source. No public brand-colour specification was found; the badge artwork is the only self-consistent source.

References

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Hyundai Motor Company. Wikipedia · revision 1372120637 · read 2026-09-08
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