As the chairwoman of South Korea's Hyundai group, Hyun Jeong-eun, faces business challenges few other executives can imagine.
In a year of unprecedented turmoil for the U.S. auto industry, one major car maker has emerged as a winner. And that company isn't based in Detroit, Japan or Europe.
North and South Korea will hold three days of talks on reunions for families torn apart by the Korean War and divisions between the two countries, South Korea's Unification Ministry said Tuesday.
South Korea responded positively, but cautiously, to a joint agreement announced Monday between North Korea and the South's Hyundai Group to resume cross-border tourism, ease border controls and facilitate cross-border family reunions.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il met with Hyundai's chairwoman, who had come from South Korea seeking the release of an employee detained since March, South Korean media reported.
Drivers of new midsize cars will take a big financial hit if they get into traffic accidents even at speeds as low as 3 mph, according to a new study.
Call it anxiety marketing. Sellers of big-ticket items have been rolling out special deals that basically amount to layoff insurance. The gist: If you're let go soon after making a purchase, the company will either help you with the tab or let you wiggle out of the obligation.
Some car shoppers are finding that their trade-in vehicles, which qualified for a Cash for Clunkers rebate last week, don't this week because of changes in the EPA's fuel economy ratings.
With gas prices rising and car sales in the dumps, Hyundai is offering new car buyers gas at $1.49 a gallon for a year.
The little two-passenger smart fortwo is the most fuel-efficient car (not counting hybrids) in the U.S. market, with EPA fuel economy ratings of 33 mpg city, 41 highway. For high-mileage frugality, it appears to beat the five-passenger Toyota Yaris and its 29/35-mpg ratings by a long shot.
As the chairwoman of South Korea's Hyundai group, Hyun Jeong-eun, faces business challenges few other executives can imagine.
In a year of unprecedented turmoil for the U.S. auto industry, one major car maker has emerged as a winner. And that company isn't based in Detroit, Japan or Europe.
North and South Korea will hold three days of talks on reunions for families torn apart by the Korean War and divisions between the two countries, South Korea's Unification Ministry said Tuesday.
South Korea responded positively, but cautiously, to a joint agreement announced Monday between North Korea and the South's Hyundai Group to resume cross-border tourism, ease border controls and facilitate cross-border family reunions.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il met with Hyundai's chairwoman, who had come from South Korea seeking the release of an employee detained since March, South Korean media reported.
Drivers of new midsize cars will take a big financial hit if they get into traffic accidents even at speeds as low as 3 mph, according to a new study.
Call it anxiety marketing. Sellers of big-ticket items have been rolling out special deals that basically amount to layoff insurance. The gist: If you're let go soon after making a purchase, the company will either help you with the tab or let you wiggle out of the obligation.
Some car shoppers are finding that their trade-in vehicles, which qualified for a Cash for Clunkers rebate last week, don't this week because of changes in the EPA's fuel economy ratings.
With gas prices rising and car sales in the dumps, Hyundai is offering new car buyers gas at $1.49 a gallon for a year.
The little two-passenger smart fortwo is the most fuel-efficient car (not counting hybrids) in the U.S. market, with EPA fuel economy ratings of 33 mpg city, 41 highway. For high-mileage frugality, it appears to beat the five-passenger Toyota Yaris and its 29/35-mpg ratings by a long shot.
Tumbling sales have forced every automaker to rethink strategies, and both General Motors and Ford have announced new incentive measures similar to the Hyundai Assurance Plus Program.
Hoping to turn around plummeting sales in a faltering economy, Ford and General Motors announced new incentives Tuesday similar to a program introduced by Hyundai early in 2009.
Hyundai created something truly novel with the "Hyundai Assurance" sales incentive it announced at the beginning of 2009: An auto sales incentive that seems to actually be working.
Autoblog recently spent time in Korea driving pre-production versions of the new Hyundai Genesis. This is the car that, according to Hyundai, will usher in a new era of luxury.
While America reels from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, it is time that we take a deeper look at the root causes of our current predicament.
The Hyundai Genesis won the prestigious Car of the Year Award Sunday at the start of media preview days for the 2009 Detroit Auto Show. The redesigned Ford F-150 won the Truck of the Year award.
Cell phones and TVs converging with the Internet? That's so 2008. The next big tech trend may be the marriage of computer technology to your car or truck.
Hyundai Motor America is taking aim at Americans' worries about job security: If you buy a new Hyundai and lose your job within a year, you can give it back.
Microsoft Corp. has signed a worldwide deal with automakers Hyundai and Kia to use its in-car software that allows people to use voice commands to control personal music players and telephones
Corey Carter spends a quarter of his paycheck on gas.
Lee Myung-Bak, a 65-year-old former Seoul mayor and Hyundai executive, appears headed to a landslide victory in South Korea's presidential election, according to exit polls released as the voting ended Wednesday.
Chrysler recently instituted a "lifetime" - yes, your lifetime - powertrain warranty for its Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep vehicles. If you're shopping for a car and comparing warranty coverage, "lifetime" sounds tough to beat.
One of the bigger difficulties any first-time buyer faces is purchasing a car that doesn't scream "first-time" to friends, relatives and co-workers, or indeed to the buyer each time they step into an ill-chosen purchase.
An appeals court suspended on Thursday a three-year prison term handed to Hyundai Chairman Chung Mong-koo for embezzlement, saying the tycoon is too important to South Korea's economy to go to jail.
Hyundai Motor Co. and its labor union agreed on a wage deal Tuesday, possibly averting a strike over annual salary negotiations for the first time in a decade.
General Motors is set to unveil three new minicar concepts and give potential customers a chance to vote on the best one.
South Korean auto maker Hyundai will unveil a large V8-powered luxury car at the New York Auto Show in early April. While the Genesis is officially a concept car, a production version will go on sale in the U.S. early next year, the company said.
For the past three years, South Korea's Hyundai Motor has been the fastest-growing automaker on the planet. Driven by increased sales in the U.S., China, and India--not to mention in its home count...
For the past three years South Korea's Hyundai Motor has been the fastest-growing automaker on the planet and is poised to pass DaimlerChrysler to become the world's fifth largest. Industry observe...
For the past three years, South Korea's Hyundai Motor has been the fastest-growing automaker on the planet. Driven by increased sales in the U.S., China, and India - not to mention in its home country - it has boosted production by a third and is poised to pass DaimlerChrysler and join the ranks of the world's top five auto manufacturers. Unit sales were up 16% in the first quarter, leaving industry observers wondering whether anything could slow the company's growth.
So you're standing in the yard of your new house--only it's missing its windows, a shower is on the front porch, and there's rainwater inside because of a hole in the roof the size of a Hyundai. Oh...
Q When the company I work for was acquired recently, my stock options were suddenly worth more than $1 million. Is it okay to say nothing about this to my siblings? My brothers have good jobs, but...
So you're standing in the yard of your new house - only it's missing its windows, a shower is on the front porch, and there's rainwater inside because of a hole in the roof the size of a Hyundai. Oh, and your contractor? Apparently he's gone into the witness protection program.
The Chicago Auto Show is usually not one of the bigger automotive events of the year, at least in terms of media attention. The fact that it comes fairly close on the heels of the Detroit Auto Show, the grand-daddy of them all, probably doesn't help. This year's show, however, included quite a few notable cars.
Consumers can't just put their faith in a trusted brand name when it comes to looking for a new car.
I'd been through the security routine at our parking garage plenty of times, so I reached down on the inside of the driver's door and released the trunk latch on the 2006 Hyundai Sonata before the guard even had to ask me to.
A surprising number of Hyundai customers said they didn't want Sirius Satellite Radio installed in their vehicles because they objected to Howard Stern, according to an auto news Web site.
Hyundai Motor Co. said Wednesday it plans to offer XM Satellite Radio as standard equipment on all U.S. models by 2007.
Front crash tests on five small cars by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety yielded the first "Poor" rating given by the Institute since 2001.
Cars made by Korea's Hyundai have been rated as among the best values because of improved customer opinion of its quality, according to a survey.
[HIT] Kreme vs. cream. In May, Krispy Kreme joined a long list of companies blaming the low-carb fad for subpar earnings. But if Atkins is destroying the doughnut market, how to explain the smash U...
For the first time, Korean carmakers, thanks to a strong performance by Hyundai, have surpassed both domestic and European carmakers in initial quality, a measure of the number of problems owners experience in a new car.
Of 13 midsized cars subjected to an insurance research agency's tough new side-impact crash test, only two protected occupants well enough to earn a "Good" rating.
For industry movers and shakers, the New York City auto show is usually a big yawn. It occurs late in the vehicle introduction season and in a city that basically hates all cars that aren't stretch...
Eat your heart out, eBay. This month Korea Inc. will auction off a bigger prize than the Internet will ever see--automaker Daewoo Motor. A committee of five Korean executives will recommend one of ...
You have your heart set on that one car. You love its svelte styling, pulse-pounding acceleration, great handling and...extra-long warranty? Well, maybe not the warranty. Still, some manufacturers ...
You might think the world has all the cars and trucks it needs. But don't say that to South Korea's automakers. To bulldoze their way onto this seemingly overcrowded international stage, they plan ...
AFTER A LONG and highly successful run making cheap jogging shoes and consumer electronics, South Korea's giant conglomerates, or chaebol, have collided with the realities of the Nineties. Wages, a...
SOUTH KOREA'S long quest to be the next Japan seems right on schedule. The country's giant conglomerates are moving into every market on earth. Goldstar has bought a 5% stake in Zenith Electronics ...
SOUTH KOREA'S long quest to be the next Japan seems right on schedule. The country's giant conglomerates are moving into every market on earth. Goldstar has bought a 5% stake in Zenith Electronics ...
Chung Ju-Yung, founder of Korea's Hyundai Group (1990 sales: $20.1 billion), may want to add a postscript to Many Trials, No Failures, his recently released autobiography. Chung, 76, is going into ...
It seems as if every other TV commercial these days is for a car maker or an insurer touting the safety of air bags. Indeed, 60% of the 1992 models have driver-side air bags as standard equipment, ...
THE KEY to South Korea's astounding economic success is a group of unique conglomerates called chaebol. Initially backed by huge injections of government credit, these small family companies have b...
SO YOU'VE got a hit. The product you nurtured in R&D, shepherded through - development, and coaxed past your board of directors is flying out the door as fast as the factory can crank. Distributors...
Now that Hyundai, South Korea's second-largest industrial group, has agreed to recognize an independent labor union, the question becomes: Will democracy slow down the Korean economic machine? The ...
AS YOU DOUBTLESS have noticed on shopping trips, South Korea has burst into U.S. markets like a hungry tiger. The Koreans are underpricing the Japanese on everything from steel to TVs, VCRs, cars, ...
The first Brazilian-made car to hit the U.S. market, the Volkswagen Fox, a subcompact, carries a bargain price of $5,690, making it competitive with South Korea's Hyundai and the Japanese Subaru Ju...
A TV COMMERCIAL for the Yugo, the new, boxy Yugoslavian car that sells in the U.S. for a base price of $3,990, opens with a classic Volkswagen Bug sitting in a white one-car garage, vintage late 19...
Flush from a foray into Canada, Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea's largest automaker, has announced plans to invade the United States this fall. Its secret weapon for the American market will be a fr...
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