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TIL that the first car ever imported to North America by a Korean automaker was the Hyundai Pony II, and it was only sold in Canada. Between 1984 and 1985, around 45,000 of these cars were purchased with a price tag starting at $5,900 CAD.
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Absolutely shittiest cars on the market too, even including Skoda. Hyundai’s come a long way.
A high school friend of mine had one, and she let me drive it once. It had the worst steering of any vehicle I have ever driven in my life. Unbelievably sloppy and unresponsive. Hyundai cars in the 80s were absolute garbage.
My dad had one, we still have its engine sitting in a shed
>imported to North America by a Korean automaker
That’d be **ex**ported – sent TO North America FROM Korea.
To use “imported” correctly, you’d say “The first Korean-made car North America ever imported”
There’s a reason “imported” and “exported” exist as two different words.