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2004m3driver @ Nov 21st 2007 4:23PM
I love Hyundai. Someone has to keep the giants in check and be competitive. I wonder if Toyota will get as hurt as badly as what the imports did to do American car companies.
psarhjinian @ Nov 21st 2007 4:32PM
Hyundai is a giant. They're like the Korean equivalent of General Electric, only more diverse and far healthier. Their product range runs the gamut from microelectronics to seafaring cargo ships.
Toyota is actually a much smaller company, by comparison.
AlexP @ Nov 21st 2007 7:13PM
I'd expect a SAABist to know this, but Hyundai was broken up into pieces in the 90's, it's quite far from being a single entity.
psarhjinian @ Nov 21st 2007 9:05PM
True, but they're still very much related (in the same sense as Japanese keiretsu are), even if they're legally separate corporations.
But yes, comparing them to GE would be a poor analogy. Probably closer to the likes of Mitsubishi is more accurate