Start with what the Daewoo Prince is: a 4-door sedan with gasoline engine, built from 1991 to 1999, when airbags, anti-lock brakes and Japanese build quality became the world standard. What it meant takes a little longer.
The background
The Daewoo Prince is a mid-size luxury car that was produced by Daewoo in South Korea between 1991 and 1999. The car was based on the rear-wheel drive Opel Rekord E, although the body was of Daewoo design, as opposed to the Opel-designed, Holden-manufactured body of the Prince's Royale predecessor.
The Prince was powered by 1.8- and 2.0-litre Opel Family II four-cylinder engines. The Prince spawned two additional variants, the Daewoo Brougham and the Daewoo Super Salon. The base Prince was replaced by the Leganza, while the more luxurious Brougham and Super Salon were succeeded by the Daewoo Chairman in 1997, Taxi models continued in production until September 1999.
The engineering
The engine is gasoline engine. On the scales it comes to 1280-1450 kg. 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. The wheelbase is 105.9 in. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
In the Daewoo line-up the Daewoo Prince has a clear place: it replaced the Daewoo Royale; it handed the line to the Daewoo Leganza (Prince) / Daewoo Chairman (Brougham and Super Salon); the factory was Bupyeong, South Korea. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Volvo 850, the Dodge Viper, the Opel Astra. Its Daewoo stablemates include the Daewoo Honker 2000 and the Daewoo Arcadia.