현대차, Q1 영업익 8249억으로 21% 증가…신차 효과<br /><br />Hyundai Motors has recorded operating profits of 718-million U.S. dollars for the first quarter of this year,... up 21 percent from the same period last year.<br />The said on Wednesday that it had 20-point-8 billion dollars of gross sales -- an on-year increase of 7 percent.<br />It owed its good performance to the success of its recently-released Palisades SUV and Genesis G90 sedan.<br />Although domestic sales saw a near nine percent increase with 184-thousand cars,... sales abroad were down 5 percent with 837-thousand.<br />The biggest drop in sales was in China,... where 131-thousand cars were sold -- around 20 percent fewer than the previous year.<br />Hyundai Motors has decided to shut down one of its factories in Beijing due to the sales slump. <br />
