Korea Car Sales By Brand : 2000-04

2004 Ssangyong Rexton 

Korea experienced economic downturn on this period as well, but not at a crisis level this time. Local car brands suffered although imports didn't, as they steadily made inroads, albeit at a low level of unit sales.

Local: The Hyundai Group clearly held top spot with both brands comfortably ensconced at the top. GM Korea had a steady downhill run through this period and was fending off Samsung for 5th spot.

Imports: Premium brands were now the main imported vehicles. Foreign cars must have been noticed with some regularity on Seoul roads by now. I got Mazda's figures years ago from somewhere, but they seem to have disappeared from sources now. How can car sales disappear? As 2005 showed no sales, this indicated they left the market.

00	01	02	03	04	Make	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
1	1	1	1	1	Hyundai	426,275	475,779	525,577	424,861	390,779
2	2	2	2	2	Kia	304,314	273,694	307,289	225,539	197,128
4	4	4	3	3	Ssangyong	78,192	93,389	134,430	125,176	97,851
3	3	3	4	4	GM Korea	221,977	151,651	141,121	116,049	89,999
5	5	5	5	5	Samsung	26,862	70,648	116,793	110,249	82,220
6	6	6	6	6	BMW	1,650	2,717	5,101	5,438	5,509
17	9	7	7	7	Lexus	24	841	2,968	3,774	5,362
8	7	8	8	8	Mercedes	665	1,216	2,142	3,124	3,188
7	8	9	10	9	Chrysler	704	896	1,508	1,341	1,736
-	19	18	18	10	Honda	-	73	101	209	1,475
9	11	10	9	11	Ford	328	470	1,247	1,580	1,388
10	10	11	12	12	Volvo	307	554	931	1,024	1,148
14	13	13	11	13	VW	86	272	685	1,048	929
15	12	12	13	14	Audi	56	338	749	886	807
-	23	22	19	15	Peugeot	-	13	28	156	528
12	16	15	16	16	Cadillac	182	136	214	251	385
11	14	16	14	17	Saab	207	149	213	382	357
-	20	23	23	18	Mazda	-	27	11	12	266
13	17	14	15	19	Land Rover	159	102	241	255	258
-	15	17	17	20	Nissan	-	144	135	222	196
16	21	20	21	21	Jaguar	26	34	73	126	143
-	18	19	20	22	Mitsubishi	-	81	77	144	115
-	22	21	22	23	Porsche	8	18	34	80	99
-	-	-	24	24	Ferrari	-	-	-	9	13
-	-	-	25	25	Maserati	-	-	-	7	8
-	-	-	-	26	Maybach	-	-	-	-	7
-	-	-	-	27	Rolls Royce	-	-	-	-	5
18	-	-	-	-	Citroen	12	-	-	-	-
					Total Import	4,414	8,081	16,458	20,068	23,922
					Total	1,062,034	1,073,242	1,241,668	1,021,942	881,899

Data sources: Thanks to KAMA and KAIDA.

To see 2005-09, please click here.
To go to the first in the series (1985-89), simply click here.