Hyundai News

Everywhere you look someone is gripping tightly to an iPhone, Android, or some other type of smartphone, because whatever the need, there's an app for that. As so, Hyundai announced it launched a refreshed version of Blue Link, an app that can control and peek into a variety of vital ...    Read more

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating the 2012 Hyundai Elantra after a side-curtain airbag may have been the cause of injury in an accident, lacerating the driver's ear and face. Photos of the vehicle after the crash show a metal part protruding from the left edge of the ...    Read more

The nonprofit Insurance Institute for Highway Safety recently announced three vehicles -- the 2013 Chevrolet Malibu ECO, the 2012 Hyundai Azera, and the 2012 Toyota Prius c -- as the latest recipients for its Top Safety Pick award. The IIHS tests vehicles for safety in frontal and side crashes, rollovers, and ...    Read more

This week's news was dominated by two important events. First, on Wednesday, a Torrance, Calif., court handed down a decision in the Heather Peters vs. Honda case. The result: Ms. Peters isn't going to be making much money on lawsuits anytime soon. The second is that racing and race car ...    Read more

The 2013 Hyundai Sonata enters its third year with a few light upgrades, largely superfluous, to continue the momentum the Korean automaker is experiencing with its midsize sedan. The 2011 model was fully redesigned, and featured Hyundai's fluidic sculpture design on the outside, while the interior was modern, fresh, and ...    Read more

For years, hydrogen has been touted as the great savior in clean fuels. In most uses, it's used in a fuel cell to create electricity to power a vehicle. The only emission from a hydrogen fuel cell: water. But when was the last time you saw a hydrogen filling station outside ...    Read more

According to a report out today, BMW and Hyundai are in the early stages of talks concerning a potential partnership. While the two automakers offer vastly different vehicle lineups, aesthetics, and driving dynamics, the two do share one thing in common: Both are coming off of record years, and have ...    Read more

"Brake pedal electronic throttle override capability" sounds scary and complicated, but Hyundai will assure you that it's not. With almost all new cars featuring lightweight, inexpensive, relatively responsive electronic throttles—no actual physical connection between your foot and the engine—Hyundai ensures that if this electronic throttle ever malfunctions and gets stuck, ...    Read more

If you didn't know, Korea's Hyundai and Kia are popular car manufacturers. In fact, the brands are so popular that each, respectively, again beat all kinds of company sales numbers last month. This is what happens when an automaker commits to building quality and feature-laden products at an affordable price. ...    Read more

The 2012 Hyundai Elantra was named the North American Car of The Year in January, and more than 200,000 Elantras have been sold since the model was introduced. The Hyundai Sonata has similarly seen a warm reception, and Hyundai has just announced that it will add a third shift at ...    Read more

China's annual international auto show, which rotates each year between Beijing and Shanghai, is a mixed bag of promise and a facade of decades-old technology hiding under fresh sheetmetal. China's auto market is still emerging, and the country doesn't always have the same sets of quality and crash standards of ...    Read more

We like how SUVs and crossovers offer height to see ahead, and offering plenty of space for when you need to haul those 3-5 extra people. But, more and more, we hate the way the swill gasoline in the process. But you have to pay at the pumps to play, ...    Read more

What do the Coachella music festival, a Honda lawsuit, and a couple of Chevy-themed videos have in common? Nothing, really, except that they were all covered at Automotive.com this week, and all recapped here in our Week in Review. It was a big week for news, really, with all kinds ...    Read more

Weeks before I set off for Hankook Tire’s development and manufacturing facilities in South Korea, Automotive.com’s biggest kahuna, Angus MacKenzie, discussed the importance of tires with me from his Australian point of view. During our dinnertime conversation, he explained the difference between U.S. and international consumers when it comes to ...    Read more

Anticipation We rolled in to the desert sometime after 9 p.m. amid a downpour. Our hotel was in Palm Springs, approximately 20 miles away from Coachella, where 90,000 bodies were huddled, freezing, enduring the elements in the name of the experience. After all, this is the biggest music festival on the ...    Read more

Both car buyers and dealerships like high residual values on vehicles. Car owners like them because it makes it easier to sell their vehicle for a good price later, and dealerships like them for pretty much the same reason. All automakers covet such an accolade on their brand (witness Toyota, ...    Read more

If you don't know who William T. Sherman was, he was a general of the Union Army during the Civil War who helped coin the term "Total War," pillaging every Confederate city in his path until he reached Georgia. It's a somewhat appropriate analogy, as Kia shares its largest North ...    Read more

The information age is a blessing, and curse. Through iPads, iPhones, Blackberrys, laptops and good ol' desktop computers, we are inundated with more news, tidbits, tweets and Facebook posts than we know what to do with. On the other hand, the competition to create "news" that stands out, and constantly ...    Read more

Hyundai is recalling its 2011-12 Sonata Hybrids for a center rear seatbelt issue. According to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, the center rear seatbelt is detachable in both the lap and shoulder portion, and could become unrestrained in the event of an accident, which defeats the purpose of a ...    Read more

If an automaker creates a sports car, its primary objective should be to make drivers and passengers smile so much that it hurts. It shouldn't be for weekend grocery-getters who think a car should be about style unto itself; it should be for enthusiasts to fling around on a whim ...    Read more

What are those old sayings? Nothing last forever? What goes up must come down? Those and more must be running through General Motors' product development department as it contemplates the next iteration of its Chevrolet Camaro. The current fifth-generation Chevy Camaro has been a spectacular success for GM since the production ...    Read more

One auto show down, another one to go, which means more teasers from the automakers. Latest culprit is Hyundai, who just released images of its 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe crossover scheduled to debut at next month's New York Auto Show. The Hyundai Santa Fe's new sheetmetal moves away from the curvaceous ...    Read more

Hyundai dips its toes into the European-market pool more often than we think. The grossly underrated Elantra Touring is corporate-speak for the Hyundai i30, sold in Europe with a dizzying array of diesel engines—but in America, it is bunny-hopping on a more familiar nameplate. Likewise, right now at the Geneva Motor ...    Read more

Forgive me for dragging a dated late-90s video game reference (and what can rightfully be called the Adam and Eve of all Internet memes) through the mud and onto the tele-screens of your short-term memories. But seriously, the Korean companies were on their game this month. If the Hyundai ...    Read more

In May of last year, Hyundai introduced an innovative spiff for new buyers: It would guarantee the resale value of the vehicle when it was turned back in. There were conditions of course: you had to keep it for 24 to 48 months; you had to have it serviced at ...    Read more