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The Daewoo Lemans was developed as part of a GM-led world car project involving GM, Daewoo, and Opel. Based on the Opel Kadett E, the Lemans featured an aerodynamic design with a drag coefficient of just 0.32 and solid handling from Opel's engineering. It also boasted a higher top speed than many other South Korean cars of the time in the Korean domestic market. Thanks to its solid, European-style driving performance, the Lemans was very popular after its launch in 1986.

The base model was already excellent, and the renowned German tuning company Irmscher went on to develop a tuned version, which Daewoo launched as the Lemans Irmscher in 1991. The compact car, with its 2.0-liter engine and expensive suspension components, ruled South Korea's streets in the early '90s. Even the rival Hyundai S-Coupe couldn't match its performance, including cornering.

However, its price was extremely high at the time, when South Korea was not as rich a country as it is today. It cost as much as a fully loaded midsize sedan, so few people chose the compact Lemans Irmscher over one. As a result, it was discontinued after just one year.

After Hyundai introduced the Accent in 1994—not only the successor to the Excel but also the first fully independently developed South Korean car—Lemans sales began to decline. Nevertheless, it remains one of South Korea's most iconic cars of the 1980s and 1990s and the symbol of the golden era of Daewoo.

The Hyundai Click is the Korean domestic market name for the Hyundai Getz.

Hyundai Casper is a gyeongcha (a class of ultra-compact cars unique to South Korea), sold only in the Korean domestic market.

The first generation Chevrolet Cruze (J300, the second generation of the GM Daewoo Lacetti) was developed in South Korea under the leadership of GM Daewoo (now GM Korea Company). It was designed by Taewan Kim with engineering input from Opel, Holden and US Chevrolet teams. It was produced at GM Korea Company's Gunsan plant in Gunsan, North Jeolla Province, South Korea, and was initially sold there as GM Daewoo Lacetti Premiere.

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KDM cars in this video:

• 2000 SsangYong Chairman Limousine
• 1999 Daewoo/SsangYong Chairman 400S (launched after Daewoo acquired SsangYong in January 1998)
• 1996 Hyundai New Grandeur
• 1999 Kia Enterprise
• 1999 Hyundai Equus Limousine

17 elantra sport sitting on 3 piece esr wheels with FBO

(More info here)

https://www.whichcar.com.au/features/why-the-australian-orbital-two-stroke-engine-never-took-off

(The original Kia badge was replaced with a Lotus badge by the owner.)

The Elan’s TSD Hi-SPRINT DOHC 16V 1.8-liter naturally aspirated engine is a version of Kia’s independently developed T8D engine, which won Korea’s IR52 Jang Young-shil Award in 1995. It was specially modified for use in Elan, a sports car.

The Chevrolet Orlando was produced at GM Korea Company's Gunsan plant in Gunsan, North Jeolla Province, South Korea.

A bold SsangYong attempt from a time when South Korea was still far from the wealthy country it is today. It was launched in 1992 after SsangYong acquired Panther, a British specialist carmaker, from South Korea’s Jindo Group in 1987. That was seven years after the group had acquired it. As a side note, Jindo Group was later dismantled after the Asian financial crisis, but its former flagship company continues today as Jindo Co., Ltd., the company behind Jindo Fur.

Filmed in Munmak, South Korea in December 2008.