Hyundai continues its journey to increase market share

Hyundai has registered an impressive growth in sales in the first half of 2010. He had the best performance on six months of the brand in Europe.

Hyundai sold 191,338 units in first half of 2010 - the highest value recorded over a period of six months since the company started importing cars in Europe, with over 20 years ago. The latest data provided by ACEA indicates that Hyundai's sales increased by 10.2% compared with the first six months of 2009 - once again placing itself above the European market that same period increased by 0.6%.

Hyundai's remarkable performance in the first half, which led to mark a 2.6% market share in Europe is confirmed that the car maker was ranked as the Asian leader in several key markets in Europe, including the most large car sales market of the continent, Germany.

Models range "and" continue their success in the segments they belong. I30 hatchback and wagon models saw sales increases of 41% over the first half of 2009, together exceed the figure of 60,000 units in 2010. I20 designed in Europe has reached a 40% increase over the same period of 2009, while the i10 to the trend of 3%. ix35, Hyundai SUV segment C also contributed to the impressive results of the first half of this year, was taken over 60,000 orders in four months from the time it became available on the European market in March.

Allan Rushforth, vice president of Hyundai Motor Europe, said: "We are very pleased with how we evolved to this time of year. Our goal was to keep the trend reached in 2009 after government incentives. Now these programs would end and we are happy that we are growing. "

"The launch of the first quarter ix35 helped us to offset the decline in demand that has affected other automakers and we are now in an opportune position to achieve the objective for the current year, namely gaining market share by 2.75%" .

"Although the European car market prepares for next month challenges are reserved, but also optimistic, because for us to start the busiest time of product launch. We will bring 10 models and new versions on the European market, some segments of our brand-new. "

Source: http://worldwide.hyundai.com/

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