HYUNDAI VELOSTER WINS 2011 GOOD DESIGN AWARD

HYUNDAI VELOSTER WINS 2011 GOOD DESIGN AWARD: COSTA MESA, Calif., Dec. 26, 2011 – The all-new 2012 Hyundai Veloster earned a GOOD DESIGN™ Award in the Transportation category for its innovative and unique three-door design. The GOOD DESIGN Awards are presented annually by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design together with The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. Founded in Chicago in 1950, GOOD DESIGN bestows international recognition upon the world's most prominent designers and manufacturers for advancing new, visionary, and innovative product concepts, invention and originality, and for stretching the envelope beyond what is considered ordinary product and consumer design.

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Six Hundai Models Earn 2012 IIHS Top Safety Pick Honors

Six models in the Hyundai line-up, the all-new Hyundai Elantra, Sonata, Genesis, Equus, Tucson and Santa Fe, all achieved the 2012 Top Safety Pick honor from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).  Top Safety Pick recognizes vehicles that do the best job of protecting people in front, side, rollover, and rear crashes based on “good” ratings in institute tests.  Winners must also have available Electronic Stability Control (ESC), a crash avoidance feature that significantly reduces crash risk.  The IIHS Top Safety pick ratings help consumers pick vehicles that offer a higher level of protection than federal safety standards require.  In 2010, the institute toughened the criteria for Top Safety Pick by adding a requirement that all qualifiers must earn a “good” rating for performance in a roof strength test to assess protection in a rollover crash.

Hyundai Elantra wins ALG Best Resale Value Award for the second year in a row

Hyundai announced that the 2012 Elantra has received a Residual Value Award form ALG in the compact car segment.  ALG is the industry benchmark for residual values and depreciation date.  ALG annually recognizes automakers’ outstanding achievements in producing new vehicles that are predicted to preserve the highest percentage of their original price after a conventional three-year period.  Award winners are determined through careful study of the competition in each segment, historical vehicle performance and industry trends.  Vehicle quality, production levels relative to demand and pricing and marketing strategies remain the key factors that affect ALG’s residual value forecast.  The trade-in value guarantee is the newest addition to the Hyundai Assurance suite of programs.  It eliminates concern about depreciation by giving Hyundai owners a guaranteed value for their vehicle in months 24 through 48 of ownership.  The 2012 Elantra sets the bar in the compact sedan category offering a “class-above” midsize car interior volume, modern design, outstanding fuel economy, and loads of comfort and convenience features.