Hyundai
Hyundai Motor Company is a South Korean carmaker, founded in 1967. In 2025, it sold 4,138,389 vehicles worldwide, 961,812 of them electrified, for record revenue of 186.3 trillion won.
Their story
- Hyundai Motor Company is founded
- 1967
- Hyundai Motor Company is founded
- million vehicles sold in 2025
- 4.1
- million vehicles sold in 2025
- million vehicles produced, a mark reached in 2024
- 100
- million vehicles produced, a mark reached in 2024
- million Hyundai and Kia cars with LaListe’s restaurants in their navigation
- 4.7
- million Hyundai and Kia cars with LaListe’s restaurants in their navigation
The year after it was founded, it opened an assembly plant in Ulsan, where it built the Ford Cortina. It then designed its own car, the Pony, launched in 1975, which it describes as the first vehicle produced in Korea. On September 30, 2024, Hyundai produced its 100 millionth vehicle.
Its first exports to Europe, to Belgium and the Netherlands, began in 1978. It opened a research and development centre in Germany in 1994, then, in 1997, its first plant on the continent, in Izmit, Turkey. Launched in 2007, the i30 was developed for European drivers.
Hyundai is LaListe’s GPS partner: since 2019, LaListe has supplied its geolocated selection of restaurants to the navigation systems of Hyundai and Kia cars. According to LaListe, 4.7 million Hyundai and Kia cars have it. Hyundai was also a partner of LaListe’s Garden Party in 2022.
