Inside world's biggest car factory where a motor is made every ten SECONDS – spanning 1,200-acres & open 18 hours a day
The key to why Hyundai can manufacture so many motors each year
CONVEYOR BELT Inside world's biggest car factory where a motor is made every ten SECONDS – spanning 1,200-acres & open 18 hours a day
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POPULAR car manufacturer, Hyundai, produces a staggering 1.5million cars a year at their South Korean base, almost doubling the UK's output.
This streamline system allows the manufacturer to make a motor every 10 seconds, making it the world's largest vehicle plant.
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The plant is in Ulsan, South Korea
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The site is spans across a staggering 1,200 acres
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Production lines run for 18 hours a day
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With a dock on site, the vehicles are built, tested and shipped out to California in one seamless operation at the Hyundai Ulsan plant on the south-eastern coast.
Autocar went inside Plant 5 to watch the roll out of some of Hyundai's most popular motors.
According to Autocar, after coming off the production line, and following a quality control check, finished cars are sent to a huge car park at the dockside.
The cars are then loaded onto the ship using a steep ramp at the rear.
Once a number of Elantras have blasted up it, the drivers race on foot back down the ramp and jump into a Hyundai Staria to be driven to their next machines.
According to one of the factory manager's, this unique way of producing and exporting cars saves both money and time, and is the key to why Hyundai can make so many vehicles each year.
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Hyundai first arrived in Ulsan in 1968
Credit: Getty
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The site holds the title of the world's largest vehicle plant
Credit: Getty
Set across 1200 acres, the impressive site boasts five factories, as well as an engine and transmission plant.
It is also the only automotive production facility in the world to have a dedicated on-site port which ships 75 per cent of its yearly output to more than 200 countries around the world.
With production lines running for 18 hours a day, 17 different Hyundai models are produced here, from the Hyundai Santa Fe and Tucson, to the entire Genesis line-up.
After opening just a year after Hyundai itself was formed in 1968, the plant has gone from a small Ford assembly facility, to a giant site which sees a ship full of cars leave the port every 24 hours.
Car buyers face $500 added fee when buying new vehicle as angry drivers blast 'it's only benefitting dealers'
The city of Ulsan has also grown around the plant, going from a population of 30,000 when Hyundai arrived in 1968, to 1.1 million people today - roughly the same population as Birmingham.
What was once a fishing port, has now become South Korea's industrial hub.
The city doesn't take Hyundai's presence for granted as a motorway was named after the company's founder.
As well as this, a hospital, a school, and a handful of restaurants bear the Hyundai name with pride.
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