The E-Class Takes Top Spot in Foreign Car Market
CarIsYou said on Jan. 4 that the Hyundai Grandeur was the most popular model in the new car market of South Korea last year.
“Last year, the annual sales volume of the model dropped 40.1 percent to 87,985 after having exceeded 100,000 for four years in a row and this is because the global automotive chip shortage affected the production,” it said, adding, “The runner-up is the Kia Carnival and the sales volume of the model increased 16.7 percent to 73,540 in 2021.”
In the foreign car market of South Korea, last year’s top 10 list includes four Mercedes-Benz models. The E-Class took the top spot with 26,109, down 22.4 percent from a year ago. S-Class, GLE and GLC came in fourth, eighth and 10th with 10,543, 6,856 and 6,282, respectively.
BMW 5 Series and Audi A6 came in second and third with 17,740 and 12,273, respectively. Tesla Models 3 and Y came in fifth and sixth with 8,898 and 8,891, respectively.
Last year, a total of 1,438,149 domestic cars were newly registered in South Korea, down 11.3 percent year on year, whereas the figure increased 4.2 percent to 296,887 in the case of imported cars.