Hyundai no longer mistaken for illegal stepchild of HondaNew 2011 Line Winning Kudos from Everyone

  • 30 Jan 2011
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Another in the Digital Family Advisor Series: What’s In a Brand Name?

By Richard M. Sherwin

“Hyundai” (pronounced Hun-day, like Sunday) means “modern” in Korean, to convey Hyundai’s continuing new technologies and designs. The company is part of a Korean “chaebol”, or conglomerate.
About 25 years ago a much younger and nervy Bob Plunkett, anchorman extraordinaire and Richard Sherwin, columnist were doing a story about the worst car makers in the world. We barely got on a highway with a junker known as the Yugo.

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