& çâÌæÚUæð´ ·¤è ¥ôÚU Îð¹Ùæ ÁæÚUè ÚU¹ð´ ¥ÍæüÌ ¥ÂÙð ÜÿØ ÂÚU ŠØæÙ ÚU¹ð´Ð ãæÚU Ù ×æÙð´, €UØô´ç·¤ ·¤æ× ·¤ÚUÙð âð ¥æÂ·¤ô ©gðàØ ·¤è Âýæç# ãôÌè ãñ ¥õÚU ÁèßÙ ·¤æ ¹æÜèÂÙ ÎêÚU ãôÌæ ãñÐ ÖÜð ãè ÁèßÙ ×ð´ ç·¤ÌÙè Öè ·¤çÆÙæ§ü €UØô´ Ù ¥æ°, çÁ™ææâæ ¥õÚU ©ˆâæã ÕÙæ° ÚU¹ð´Ð ŠØæÙ ÚU¹ð´, ÜÿØ ã×ðàææ ¥æÂ·Ô¤ Âæâ ãôÌð ãñ´ çÁ‹ãð´ ÂæÙð ·Ô¤ çÜ° ÂýØæâ ¥æÂ ·¤Öè Öè àæéM¤ ·¤ÚU â·¤Ìð ãñ´Ð

Hyundai sees 35pc gain in US sales this year
DEARBORN. July 12: Despite a slowing US car market. Korean automaker Hundai expects to end the year with a 35 per cent gain in US sales and extend growth into next year with a new sport utility vehicle and midsize sedan, reports AP.
The head of Hyundai's American sales arm said Tuesday that the company was turning around Its fortunes from two years ago. when US sales hit an all-time low’ and buying a Hyundai was close to a mark of shame.
"Even though we've improved our image, we have a long way to go. said Finbarr O'Neill, the Northern Ireland native who senes as president and CEO of Hyundai Motor America. "We oiler entry-level products, but our ambition Is not to be solely an entry-level company."
Hyundai offers four models ol small and mid-sized cars in the United States that are often
cheaper than their competitors. The company, along with Korean competitors Kia and Daewoo, have benefitted from larger automakers, especially General Motots Corp, putting their energies toward larger cars and trucks.
Through June, the Korean automaker had sold 123,4 71 cars in the Unlted^States. a 73 per cent improvement over last year, putting it ahead of Mazda and slightly behind Mitsubishi Even with slower sales for the rest ol the year, Hyundai expects to sell 220.000 vehicles this year, a 34 per cent increase.
That's a far cry from 1998, when Hyundai sold 91.000 cars, with 25 per cent going to less-profitable fleet sales O'Neill said at the time, more than 60 per cent of Hundai s dealers were selling less than 10 cars a month.
O'Neill said the company was already fixing quality
problems that had plagued it lor years, but the company's image was so bad consumers had to make excuses to their neighbours about why they owned a Hyundai.’ >
The big move was to offer a far better warranty oxi new cars than other automakers. Hyundai now offers a 10-year. 100.000-mile warranty on engines and transmissions, a 5-year/60.000-mile warranty on most other parts and roadside assistance.
The warranties. O’Neill said, convinced dealers that Hyundai was serious about the US market and got the company back into consumers' minds. Since it began the warranties in 1998. Kia and Isuzu also have started similar warranty programmes.
Hyundai still comes in near last place for Initial quality among automakers, according to a recent survey by J D Power and Associates.