{"id":70799,"date":"2026-07-01T09:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T09:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/70799\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T09:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T09:35:12","slug":"hyundai-motor-sells-1-96-million-vehicles-in-first-half-down-4-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/70799\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyundai Motor Sells 1.96 Million Vehicles in First Half, Down 4.9%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Hyundai Motor's &quot;The All-New Avante.&quot; Photo courtesy of Hyundai Motor - Seoul Economic Daily Finance News from South Korea\" title=\"Hyundai Motor Sells 1.96 Million Vehicles in First Half, Down 4.9%\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"w-full h-auto rounded-sm\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:contain;object-position:center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/news-p.v1.20260701.1abed03a137c421b9708d2dd6f7fec35_P1.png\"\/>Hyundai Motor&#8217;s &#8220;The All-New Avante.&#8221; Photo courtesy of Hyundai Motor<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Hyundai Motor (005380.KS) sold 1,966,267 vehicles globally in the first half of this year, the company said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">The figure represents a 4.9% decline from 2,066,993 units in the same period last year. Domestic sales fell 10.8% to 354,900 units, while exports dropped 3.7% to 1,712,093 units.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">In June, the company sold 338,313 vehicles, down 5.9% from a year earlier. Domestic sales totaled 58,232 units and overseas sales reached 280,081 units.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">In the domestic market, sedan sales reached 20,253 units, including the Grandeur (10,062 units), Sonata (5,102 units) and Avante (4,316 units).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Recreational vehicles (RVs) sold 20,720 units, including the Palisade (4,211 units), Santa Fe (4,068 units) and Tucson (3,285 units).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Genesis recorded 7,936 units, including the G80 (2,944 units), GV70 (2,428 units) and GV80 (1,840 units).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">&#8220;The new Grandeur, which has begun full-scale sales, is receiving a positive response from customers,&#8221; a Hyundai Motor official said. &#8220;In the second half of this year, we will launch competitive new models such as the all-new Avante and expand our market share through strategies to optimize production and sales.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hyundai Motor&#8217;s &#8220;The All-New Avante.&#8221; Photo courtesy of Hyundai Motor Hyundai Motor (005380.KS) sold 1,966,267 vehicles globally in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[6952,3177,38563,1391,8276,295,702,10215,38562],"class_list":["post-70799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hyundai-motor","tag-domestic-sales","tag-exports","tag-first-half-2025","tag-genesis","tag-grandeur","tag-hyundai","tag-hyundai-motor","tag-korea-auto-industry","tag-vehicle-sales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}