SsangYong Musso

Among the 18 KG Mobility entries in the MotorJury library, the SsangYong Musso holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 1993. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the SsangYong Musso properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1990s were the decade of refinement — airbags and ABS became universal, Japanese build quality set the world standard, and the modern SUV segment was effectively invented. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz E-Class, the Audi AG Audi A4, the Toyota Toyota RAV4 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the SsangYong Musso reads like this: the record lists its engine as 2.3 L M111.970/M111.974/M111.984 I4 (petrol) / 3.2 L M104 I6 (petrol) / 2.3 L OM601 I4 (diesel) / 2.9 L OM602 I5 (diesel); kerb weight is recorded at related = SsangYong Musso Sports; the layout is Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive / Front-engine, four-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the KG Mobility story

Within KG Mobility's own catalogue the SsangYong Musso sits alongside the KGM Actyon, the KGM Musso EV, the KGM Torres, the SsangYong Actyon. The record names the SsangYong Korando Family as its predecessor and the for SsangYong SUV / SsangYong Rexton / SsangYong Kyron / SsangYong Actyon / for General Motors KR / Chevrolet Captiva / Daewoo Winstorm (Daewoo Musso) / for Mercedes-Benz / Mercede as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Ken Greenley. Assembly is recorded at Pyeongtaek, South Korea / Taganrog, Russia (TagAZ) / Tehran, Iran (Morattab) / Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (Mekong Auto) / Jakarta, Indonesia (Indobuana Autoraya).

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the SsangYong Musso was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.