Daewoo Motors took over the troubled four-wheel-drive specialist SsangYong Motor, only to sell it off again in 2000, because the conglomerate ran into deep financial troubles. Its models, were sold under the Daewoo-SsangYong badge in South Korea, contrary to other areas where they were sold under the Daewoo brand name. SsangYong's flagship limousine, the Chairman, was on its part integrated to the Daewoo range, becoming the Daewoo Chairman, with a new three-parts Daewoo corporate grill. By 1999, the whole Daewoo Group ran into financial trouble, and was forced to sell its automotive division. Candidates for the operation included Hyundai associated with DaimlerChrysler,
Doninvest Doninvest Doninvest () was a Russian industrial group that manufactured cars in Taganrog and Aksay, Rostov Oblast. The firm produced Daewoo cars on license for the Russian market under an own brand. Their best known models were the Doninvest Assol, the Doninvest Kondor, and the Doninvest Orion. Doninvest Bank was founded in 1991 by Mikhail Paramonov. In 1995, the bank financed a plan to assemble Pontiac cars in the Krasny Aksay plant. The first Daewoo-branded vehicles began to be manufactured in 1995, at the Krasny Aksay plant. The first models were the Daewoo Nexia and Daewoo Espero. Doninvest began to