On 20-Aug-2010, "Brenda Ann" wrote:

last visit was for a month teaching Hyundai/Kia some new technologies.
In
a
month, I saw 5 U.S. vehicles.

I've been here for 10 years, and travel almost every day throughout the
country. On the expressways I would guess easily 10% of the cars are US
makes, another 1-2% are Japanese. Lots of Chryslers (mostly PT Cruisers,
which seem to be very popular), Chevrolets (mostly vans and SUV's). Other
foreign cars that are very popular here are Mini Coopers and BMW's. For
the
most part, for small cars they stick with domestic because of price and
easy
parts availability.

Conversely, most of the US military drive Korean vehicles, mostly small
cars
for POV's, and the military fleets are mostly SSangYong and KIA.

That's good to hear - they must be allowed now so the U.S. will continue to
defend them when the North gets frisky. SsangYong is an interesting company
- did seminars for them too. They build and export with Mercedes nameplates,
but they're Korean 100%. (Not touted as Mercedes, just with the logos.)