I’m citizen of Ulsan, Korea, and my current job is reliability test engineering for automotive parts of Hyundai. I’m thank to Mr.Turnbull for his heritage. He brought many manufacturing and engineering technology to us. I’m impressed that earlier Hyundai factory is quite premitive that workers carries body panels by hand, hammering and welding bodywork. It’s so contrary to current YeomPoDong factory. I also thank to seniors who built this factory and city. Now I’m living my life on this industrial foundation. It was good time to see old scenery of Ulsan and many fathers young times.

Ironically, In 2016 there is no british automobile company while Korea has Hyundai which is 6th biggest car manufacturer in the world. Sir George Turnbull made correct decision.

Funny that before Hyundai ever sold a car in the UK under that name, the BBC reporter had already chosen the ridiculous "high-un-die" pronunciation of Hyundai while Turnbull pronounces it correctly repeatedly in the interview.

Early teacher of Korean Car industry. He developed Pony and we watching Ioniq5, descendent of Pony

Hyundai workers don't complain and work in challenging conditions with unrealistic deadlines. The UK workers didn't even know how good they had it at the time! I guess the Koreans just wanted to be successful more than BL did, and that's why they are here and the UK car industry (well, UK-owned carmakers) are basically reduced to building hand-built vehicles out of small garages. Sir George was The Man! A very good video illustrating the talents of a man who helped build the Korean car industry. Too bad he couldn't have saved BL or Talbot later in his career...his death at 66 was too young.

I grew up in Calcutta in the 80s...close to a Jetty in the Calcutta Port Trust property leased to the Nepalese Government...I used to watch hundreds of then relatively then unknown Hyundai Ponies being transported by road to Nepal and gradually this trickle eventually became a flood..While India still made antiquated British Cars under license... Hyundai came to India by setting up a factory in Chennai (Madras) in 1998 and today Hyundai Kia is the 2nd largest car manufacturing company behind Suzuki in the world’s 4 th largest car market...

Somewhere in South Korea, deep in a Hyundai Industries archive warehouse, probably in a long-forgotten packing crate, is one or perhaps both of those original imported Marina cars...! 😉

Yep...the ingrained 'nah mate - too hard' attitude of Britain at that time was very sad - but so was the 'selfless' attitude of Korea. Some kind of happy medium might be a nice change.

It's worth mentioning that Hyundai had already been building the Ford Cortina under licence since 1966/7 so they were not new to this game. They built Cortinas until 1982/3 and the 1983 Hyundai Stellar was a rebodied Cortina Mark 5 with a Mitsubishi engine. Still a huge achievement however.

Think only Koreans are typing the comments via Namuwiki hahahahahahahaha

Korea's automobile industry and shipbuilding industry are leading the global market thanks to the UK's financial support and dispatch of technicians. Thank you very much.

I never knew that Hyundai's Ponys had British bloodline in them. Thank you British teachers.

Now the owner of an 86' Hyudai Excel and Until now I never knew just how cool Hyudai really is

50 years after Hyundai is going strong offering a wide variety of vehicles all over the world and with a growing reputation of reliability. US and European car industry are by now a handful of conglomerates still more focused in providing the best service and reliability during the warranty - after that they leave their customers with an expensive lemon...

Near the end of this, at the party, George says basically that Hyundai needs to sell cars high in Korea so they can sell for lower in other countries. It is funny that I saw this moment because it is still true. A Hyundai costs a crap load more in Korea than in America.

Turnbull doing the 고사 gosa ceremony at 2:47 like a native. What a trooper. What an international citizen. I bet if he lead a battalion of colonial commonwealth soldiers in the 19th century they would have followed him to the gates of Hell and back. Props, sir.

요정에서 여자가 옆에 있는 와중에도 일에 전념하는 당신은 진짜 머단하다

I LIKED HYUNDAI PONY AFTER 1981 AND ITS SECOND GENERATION

The side profile makes it so clear that the Point is just a four door Marina with the two door Marina roofline!

Thanks guys.

I was very fortunate to live in Ulsan for three years and visit the car plant.

From little things big things grow while the once mighty descends into kaos. They're basically following the japanese lead they're just 20 years behind, japan needed to recover their shattered economy by industrialization and to build a reputation for quality via manufacturing, now the koreans have fully developed it looks like the Chinese are following behind. Now as for automotive decline the american big 3 are about 20 years behind the Brits

I WOULD LOVE TO PAINT HYUNDAI PONYS

As much as I was loyal to British cars, the writing was on the wall even in to early 70s. Complacency and failure to adapt to changing markets were all nails in the coffins for British cars

정주영 동생 헤어스타일 끝내주네. 겁나 surreal하구만.

love all the salutes! that's the fighting spirit!

I'm slamming down on this zillion year old post to say Yo! my first nearly new car was a Hyundia Pony, it was super underpowered, but the 5 speed trans made compensating for the shit motor slightly drivable, and you had to LEARN to drive to get anything out of the crappy crappy motor, which I did, and for a shitty underpowered motor, I sure revved the flying shit crap frick frack out of it, and it never blew a gasket or siezed up. Some asshole front ended me in it that was the end of my pony,. great handling, imo fun to drive, needed nitrous fs

im here beceause of ioniq 5 electric car , and enjoying great video.

Obviously, Current south korean economic development was driven by its own citizens. But without help of masters like Chartered Engineer Sir George, the speed of development had been much slower than now. they worked like masterclass.

George gets credit for the Pony but no blame for the Marina! 😂

Pony is made by HYUNDAI ,KOREA . the music in 2:45 - 3:26 is not korean music but japaness music . the same as America is not England.

Great doc. Part BBC, part Monty P. 😂

Thanks George for leaving me stranded on the road on a regular basis.

2:45 The bgm is Shamisen

Love pony

7:36

British cars and German Uboots, Sir Karl Doenitz, ;)

무려 45년전영상

George Turdbull saved the former Chrysler UK Talbot operation when Peugeot was looking to closing it down! But he gets the blame for closing Linwood

18:30 POH! NEE!

That's my father Peter Slater. He just died this year.

Pony

Those hills really DO look like those from L.A. and M*A*S*H !!

lol, what ever happened to the korean car industry? oh yeh it did quite well. they should have let lord stokes go instead of this man. bloody class in the way again in the uk. indeed the mini crippled BL. no care given to construction and a gearbox designed in a weekend for a lifetime of problems. they didn't even check if it was waterproof. also thats some great karaoke 23:45 ;)

18:16

Robert, are you George Turnbull's son?

This is the guy responsible for Hyundai Pony. Drove a 1984 Pony with a tire burning 74 hp. Really a crap car that was horribly under powered to the point of being dangerous to drive. Hyundai has come a long way.

History repeats! Now Chinese are building Tesla in the factory that was built in record speed and efficiency.

@ 14:35.... hahaha.... they have heating now! Rome wasn't built in a day and neither is a car industry!

The koreans made a austin princess better then austin did 😂

why are they playing Japanese music?

10:40 - Why couldn't you get the gap so close for the Marina ? ANSWER: Well time has passed. You learn from experience. TRANSLATION: I DIDN'T GIVE A TOSS IN THE UK FOR OUR CLIENT's WISHES. I WAS TAKING THE MONEY AS LONG AS IT LASTED AND GOT AWAY WITH IT.

Arrogance and complacency is what hurt the British car industry.. the same thing is happening to the American car industry are arrogance complacency and false or fake exceptionalism.