Marking 70 years in business.
It might still be a new name, but KGM Motors traces its history back to 1954 and the formation of Ha Dong-hwan
Motor Workshop. This merged with Dongbang Motor Co in 1963 and went on to be acquired by SsangYong in 1986.
That’s the name under which the Korean 4×4 specialist first came to the UK in 1994. Its first vehicles back then,
the Musso and then the Korando, went on to be badged as Daewoos between 1997 and 2000 after General Motors bought a controlling interest in it, before turning back into SsangYongs after that went south. China’s SAIC took over in 2004, followed by Mahindra in 2011, before finally the company became part of the KG Group in 2023 and gained its new identity.
Despite all this, KGM can still boast of being 70 this year. It can and indeed it is – and more than that, the newly septuagenarian company is bringing out a special-edition version of its Musso double-cab to celebrate.
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