The company entered the German market by offering four model series (Pony, S-Coupé, Lantra and Sonata), thereby achieving around 2,886 new registrations.

Hyundai has been operating an R&D centre in Frankfurt, Germany since 1994,[5] that has been responsible for monitoring technology developments in Europe and designing and engineering new cars for the European market.

In Russia, the production of the Hyundai Accent, Sonata, Elantra and Santa Fe models was done at the TagAZ plant from 2001 to 2014 in the form of complete knock-down kits assembly.

[11] In June 2008, Hyundai started the construction of a new manufacturing plant in Saint Petersburg with a planned yearly capacity of 100,000 cars,[12] that will eventually be increased to 200,000 units.

[15] By 1984, Hyundai had launched a second model on the European market – the Stellar, a large rear-wheel drive family saloon based loosely on the Ford Cortina chassis.

[17] By 1990, with sales steadily rising across the continent, Hyundai was now a four-model brand in Europe, having launched the flagship Sonata saloon and Scoupe sports model onto the European market.