Samsung SSC-1

Samsung SSC-1
Samsung
aka	Samsung Sports Car-1
Introduction	1997
Class	Concept Car
Body Style	2-door coupe
Length	length - type here
Width	Width - type here
Height	Height - type here
Wheelbase	wheelbase - type here
Weight	Weight - you get the point
Transmission	Transmission + Drive
Engine	2.5-liter V6 (Nissan)
Battery	{{{Battery}}}
Electric motor	{{{Electric motor}}}
Power	N/A hp @ N/A rpm N/A lb-ft of torque @ N/A rpm
Similar	Venturi Alantique
Designer	Giorgetto Giugiaro

The Samsung SSC-1 was a concept car revealed in 1997 by the Korean multinational corporation Samsung. The SSC-1 was Samsung’s first car, and its name was the abbreviation of Samsung Sports Car-1.

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Worldwide

The SSC-1 is no longer in production.

Design quirks and oddities

Because pretty much anything was possible in the 1990s, when Lotus was done building its front-wheel drive Elan, it sold the rights to Kia immediately. The South Korean engineers replaced the taillights, which were originally sourced from Alpine, and began Kia Elan production for 1996. Around the same time, Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee, presumably enjoying the company's nicest office, dreamt of creating Korea's first proper, mid-engined, rear-wheel drive sports car.

Lee tried to get into the car and truck business to make the most of Samsung's resources and technologies. He wanted to buy Kia, but when that didn't work out, the Samsung Group created two new companies: Samsung Motors, for car production, and Samsung Commercial Vehicles. Everything was set by 1995, just in time for the peak of the Asian financial crisis. Samsung Motors was quickly put up for sale.

Daewoo Motors couldn't buy it, because it was busy being eaten up by General Motors. Hyundai wasn't interested, and ended up investing in a bankrupt Kia in 1997 instead. Then, in the middle of this jam came the 1997 Seoul Motor Show, starring the mid-engined Samsung Sports Car-1 (SSC-1).

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