Hyundai Motor India Limited
The Hyundai Motor India Limited is a subsidiary incorporated on 6 May 1996, the South Korean Hyundai Motor Company with corporate headquarters Chennai. The company is recognized with an annual production of 600,000 units, the second largest car manufacturer of India. In about 2,400 workers (factory 2) are currently employed in the works of Irrungattukottai (plant 1 ) and Dindia. At the beginning of the vehicle identification number of the manufacturer uses the world manufacturer code MAL and in eleventh position the letter M as a factory code.
Company History
After a two-year construction phase, the Hyundai Motor India Limited was finally able to start work on 23 September 1998. The work covered an area of 2.2 km ². The maximum Jahreskazität stood at 200,000 units. The company's first product was the Santro, which developed contrary to expectations, Hyundai, suddenly become a market success. The model was made at that time in the Kia Visto licenses. The company used model names that originated from the Korean production in order to ensure greater production capacity for the model to export. He said in most countries Atos Prime.
1999 then took the second assembly line to work. On this the Accent GTX was assembled. The top listened to the designation GTX Tornado. During the year 2001, the construction work, been following the construction of a third assembly line, complete. On this, the current Sonata rolled gold from the tape. Thus, the maximum annual production rose to 300,000 units.
In 2002, the Accent a facelift has undergone and is now carried the designation Accent Viva. The Santro, however, experienced a generational change in the following year. Unlike the Korean built Atos, there is this generation exclusively manufactured in India. The export numbers have been maintained easily changed. In the UK as well as in Poland and Ireland, the model name has been shortened to Amica. In the other countries, however, he was still under the name of Atos Prime known. For the home market, they decided to use the model name Santro Xing.
In the same year, the company expanded its model range with the importation of imported vehicles. With the SUV model Terracan was made to start with. In March 2004, the Elantra was added. At the same time, the new Accent GLS came on the market and replaced the Viva from. The design was similar to that of the larger Elantra and should reach with its fresher design a younger clientele. The trend of the new design also followed the Getz. Only in 2005 was supplemented with the Tucson as the third import model, the model range.
But the style of the new models brought his problems. The Sonata, the former top model, worked by smaller, which ultimately necessitated the launch of the new generation. This came schöießlich under the model designation Sonata Embera in the Indian market. After the failure to be successful for the redesign of the Accent on the domestic market, the end of 2005 it was decided to take up the original design of the model concerned. The said from now on Accent GLE differed only slightly from the Viva, but in particular, the new headlamps, the grille as well as the new bumper not to be overlooked. As the model name of Accent is occupied with it, and the current generation of which had been announced for India, put this one under the name Verna, which had already established themselves successfully in other markets as parallel naming.
Model Overview
- Car models from our own production of Hyundai Motor India Limited.
- Import vehicle from production of the Hyundai Motor Company in Ulsan.
- Import vehicle production from the Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama in Montgomery.
- Import vehicle production from the Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia in West Point.