Daewoo does not build many cars like the Daewoo Maepsy: a 2-door pickup truck / 4-door sedan (car) / sedan with 1.3 L Mazda C engine#TC, built from 1977 to 1988 as the oil crises and the first emissions rules rewired the industry.
How it came about
The Daewoo Maepsy (Korean: 대우 맵시) is a compact car manufactured by Daewoo (and its predecessor Saehan) in South Korea from December 1977 to February 1989. The Maepsy was a rebadged version of the PF50 Isuzu Gemini (itself a rebadged Opel Kadett C).
It was originally sold as the Saehan Gemini (Saehan Bird in export markets); in February 1982 the car became the Saehan Maepsy. In 1983 it was called the Daewoo Maepsy after Saehan Motor was bought out by the Daewoo Group, and after a facelift later that year the car became the Daewoo Maepsy-Na (New Maepsy, 맵시나). The word "maepsy" means "beautiful" in Korean.
The hardware
Under the skin sits 1.3 L Mazda C engine#TC; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. The gearbox is a 4-speed manual / 3-speed automatic. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Where it sits in Daewoo's history is not in doubt: the Saehan Camina came before it; the Daewoo LeMans followed it; it was built at Bupyeong, South Korea. On a showroom list of its day it stood against the BMW 7 Series, the Mazda RX-7, the Ford Fiesta. Its Daewoo stablemates include the Daewoo Honker 2000 and the Daewoo Arcadia.
The money
There is no federal ownership record for the Daewoo Maepsy — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.