As of October 2008, Nissan plans to sell its own cars here in Korea. The models that are being imported are the SUVs Rogue and Murano (pics below, the Rogue is the SUV on top) and the Altima sedan.
Personally, Nissan cars coming to Korea is good news, because it means more choice to the Korean consumer. If only the importers would stop pumping up the retail price of the imports. And I’m not talking about the local taxes.
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I wonder if the government will once again feel threatened by the foreign vehicle imports and audit the taxes of the car buyers.
My wife told me that she saw on the news that a Japanese car maker (she can’t remember which one) will begin selling its economy subcompacts in Korea in 2008. They are supposedly going to be priced between 6 million and 8 million won.
The Toyota Yaris is an interesting car and I would buy one if I could.
the yaris is cool. when i was back in the New World recently, i rented a car and i was hoping and praying for the yaris. of course, i got stuck with the the chevy cobalt. granted it was a rental version but… damn. what a piece of shit!
by the way, toyota may be one of the few companies that can supply this market. nissan is bringing cars here but you’ll notice it’s not even close to their full line. the reason is that can’t meet the demand fast enough and they are servicing other markets first.
I don’t expect Korean consumers to be given a fair shake with respect to Korean automobile distributors gouging via price collusion under this type of current government.
Perhaps the new administration will address the price-fixing problem, but I predict illegal collusion will continue well into the future with the government either looking the other way or unable to gather enough evidence to make an effective prosecution.
Hyundai car sale is slowing down in America and in China. Those Hyundai factory workers were getting higher and higher pays.
Monopoly engineered by Kim DaeJung is finally going down. All monopoly is bad. Just like corrupt policitians. No competition and no progress.
Samsung should make cars.
Samsung makes cars for the domestic market only. Actually, they ripped off Nissan designs to make a couple of the SM series.
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I wouldn’t call it “ripping off” Nissan designs. Yes all of the SM lines resemble Nissan cars, but Samsung did it with the permission of Nissan. Besides Renault owns a piece of both Samsung and Nissan, which makes the, for a lack of a better term, Koreanization of the Nissan cars by Samsung that much easier.
I heard the replacement parts for Samsung cars aren’t cheap. If that isn’t a sign that Renault owns that company, then I don’t know what is.
Could be worse — Citroën could be the owner…