Hyundai Motor Corp. is about halfway to becoming a great car company.
A top-notch car company obviously must be able to build vehicles of superior quality, styling and engineering. The other part of the equation is talented leadership.
Hyundai's vehicles are getting close to world-class. If it can learn how to manage deftly, delegate authority, get along with workers and keep its leaders out of jail, even the mighty Toyota Motor Corp. might have reason to shake in its boots.
The advances in Hyundai's quality and design are partly reflected in the automaker's U.S. unit sales, up 4.6 percent through July in a vehicle market that was down 5 percent for the first seven months of the year. More evidence came in June from J.D. Power & Associates, a quality-measurement service based in Agoura Hills, California, which rated Hyundai the third-best brand in the United States in initial quality, just behind Porsche and Lexus and ahead of Toyota and Honda.
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