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That's only the Veracruz, There is a LARGE assembly plant in Kaesong NORTH KOREA, about five miles north of the DMZ. Every Day trainloads of cars go north, assembled cars come south. It has the South Korean Auto Workers Union up in arms. I wouldn't buy a scab built car anyway. You can thank Senator Portman for that deal, he negotiated it so Hyundai could bring the cars in as built in the south
That's only the Veracruz, There is a LARGE assembly plant in Kaesong NORTH KOREA, about five miles north of the DMZ. Every Day trainloads of cars go north, assembled cars come south. It has the South Korean Auto Workers Union up in arms. I wouldn't buy a scab built car anyway. You can thank Senator Portman for that deal, he negotiated it so Hyundai could bring the cars in as built in the south
Which cars are assembled in North Korea? Where is your evidence of this? And what the hell does a senator from the U.S. have to do with a trade agreement between two other countries?
I'm pretty sure Hyundai is a South Korean company.
Hyundai has some investments in NK. However, I have found zero evidence that their automotive division is among the divisions invested there, much less that they're assembling cars there and then exporting them while passing them off as ROK-assembled vehicles.
So I was talking to a friend yesterday about their 2-ish yr old Hyundai. This vehicle is parked under a couple of oak trees that apparently house some kind of insect that dropped a bunch of eggs on it. It is regularly kept clean but the eggs stayed on there for about 1 week, and after washing them off, they melted the paint to the metal and created dozens of orange rust dots the size of pinheads all over the hood. We all have the same oak trees, bugs, climate in this area I've lived in all my life, and this is the only vehicle I've ever seen this happen to.
About 1 year ago, on this same Hyundai, the roof paint started peeling back from the windshield area, exposing the grey metal. Now the bare patch covers several square inches and keeps peeling back in the wind.
When the vehicle was a few months old it completely shut down and wouldn't start back up, necessitating a tow to the dealership (with small kids in tow as well).
Right now at 2-ish yrs old, the engine sounds like "bearing death" for a half-second, when it starts up after sitting for a little while.
Decent build on the interior, and not bad looking to boot, but based on the reliability and body integrity issues, this individual is swearing off Hyundai and looking for something else. Perhaps this is the bad one and all the rest are great. But with my experience working in an auto shop for 2.5 yrs and watching the problems with this one, all I have to say is you people financing compact Elantras in the mid-$20k's are on some other ****.
Being that I keep my vehicles for about 8 years, it's going to take another 5-10 years of my observation before I'd even consider looking at Hyundai.
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