Hyundai Mighty with Allison Fully Automatic Transmissions Sells More Than 1,000 Units in Six Months
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Hyundai Mighty truck is gaining customers’ trust due to its outstanding fuel economy, productivity and performance.
SEOUL, South Korea, February 2021 – Allison Transmission Korea announced that more than 1,000 of Hyundai Motor Company’s Mighty trucks equipped with the Allison 1000 xFE™ fully automatic transmission have been sold since
its launch in June 2020.
Hyundai Mighty is a 2.5- and 3.5-ton light-duty truck, which has unrivaled market share in South Korea. Hyundai Mighty trucks with Allison fully automatic transmissions provide better driving convenience, fuel economy, reliability and productivity than
the manual transmission equipped Mighty trucks.
To celebrate the successful launch, Allison Transmission held an event with the owner of the 1,000th Hyundai Mighty equipped with the 1000 xFE™ fully automatic transmission. Gyung-Jae Joo, who lives in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, was the 1000th
customer to purchase a Hyundai Might with an Allison fully automatic transmission. He received his Mighty truck in December 2020 from Gold Van, a company specializing in shipping fresh food and food materials to Seoul and Gyeonggi Province..
"I’ve recently changed my job to a pick-up and delivery business. A friend of mine in the distribution industry recommended Allison Transmission, so I chose a Mighty truck equipped with the fully automatic transmission,” said Gyung-Jae Joo
“I usually drive for more than 12 hours a day from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m., and I am very satisfied with Allison Automatics because I do not need to manually shift the gears. Also, I believe that it provides excellent safety because I only have to
pay attention to the traffic flow ahead. I didn’t feel much pressure by the price of the fully automatic transmission options in Mighty because they were around KRW 3 million. I'm very satisfied with the fuel efficiency and the low cost of maintenance
of this vehicle as only Allison approved fluid needs to be replaced periodically."
"Hyundai Mighty trucks equipped with Allison fully automatic transmissions have been on a steep sales growth since its mass production in June 2020. This is the result of a fully automatic transmission entering the light-duty truck segment and thereby
satisfying the needs of customers who wanted an automatic light duty truck," said Kyoungmee Lee, Regional Director of Allison Transmission Korea. "Hyundai Mighty trucks have always enjoyed a high level of customer trust. Together with Allison Automatics,
Hyundai brings to the South Korean market trucks that are backed by more than 100 year old company steeped in reliability and durability."
24 Feb, 2021
Allison Transmission (NYSE: ALSN) is a leading designer and manufacturer of vehicle propulsion solutions for commercial and defense vehicles, the largest global manufacturer of medium- and heavy-duty fully automatic transmissions, and a leader in electrified propulsion systems that Improve the Way the World Works. Allison products are used in a wide variety of applications, including on-highway trucks (distribution, refuse, construction, fire and emergency), buses (school, transit and coach), motorhomes, off-highway vehicles and equipment (energy, mining and construction applications) and defense vehicles (tactical wheeled and tracked). Founded in 1915, the company is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. With a presence in more than 150 countries, Allison has regional headquarters in the Netherlands, China and Brazil, manufacturing facilities in the USA, Hungary and India, as well as global engineering resources, including electrification engineering centers in Indianapolis, Indiana, Auburn Hills, Michigan and London in the United Kingdom. Allison also has more than 1,400 independent distributor and dealer locations worldwide. For more information, visit allisontransmission.com.
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