Two hundred thousand – 200,000 – and counting!
That’s the incredible sales tally year-to-date of the Hyundai Sonata, the Alabama-built sedan that catapulted Korean government backed maker into the automotive big leagues in the U.S. market.
Decades of learning and incremental changes mean Hyundai is now competitive with Honda and Toyota.
The family car is the first Korean car in history to break into the top the U.S. sales list long – decades long – dominated by the Japanese and Detroit “Big Threes.”
Sonata is already spawning derivatives, including a parallel hybrid electric version designed to take on Toyota’s dominance in this government-dictated green car segment.
There’s also a turbocharged version – 274 horsepower on regular unleaded fuel – to tackle the much larger end of the buyer spectrum. In what is an automaker’s dream, production capacity is fully used.
