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This isn"t a story about the Tucson. It"s not even about Hyundai really. It"s about Korea, although the development of one is wrapped up in the fortunes of the other.So where to start? I was going to begin with some sort of random observation about the Tucson and use that to illustrate the scale and ambition of this country, but then we went to Ulsan, and the scale and ambition blew my mind.It"s a city of 1.1 million people about the size of Birmingham and it"s home to the world"s largest car factory and the world"s largest shipbuilding facility. Both are Hyundai facilities. In my ignorance, I expected the place to be positively Victorian, a mad, dark mash of mills and smog and noise and chimneys, a greasy, poisonous hell on earth, but it wasn"t. It was really rather wholesome and enticing.Photos: Rowan HorncastleThis feature originally appeared in the January 2016 issue of Top Gear magazine
Date: 8 Jan 2016
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ID: 1630
This isn"t a story about the Tucson. It"s not even about Hyundai really. It"s about Korea, although the development of one is wrapped up in the fortunes of the other.So where to start? I was going to begin with some sort of random observation about the Tucson and use that to illustrate the scale and ambition of this country, but then we went to Ulsan, and the scale and ambition blew my mind.It"s a city of 1.1 million people about the size of Birmingham and it"s home to the world"s largest car factory and the world"s largest shipbuilding facility. Both are Hyundai facilities. In my ignorance, I expected the place to be positively Victorian, a mad, dark mash of mills and smog and noise and chimneys, a greasy, poisonous hell on earth, but it wasn"t. It was really rather wholesome and enticing.Photos: Rowan HorncastleThis feature originally appeared in the January 2016 issue of Top Gear magazine
Date: 8 Jan 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 1630
