Hyundai incentive includes job loss insurance

During a focus group meeting in late November, Joel Ewanick, Hyundai Motor America's vice president of marketing, realized no matter how much cash Hyundai piled on the fenders, it probably wasn't going to get buyers into showrooms. Not when they were worried about losing their jobs. "The question for consumers right now is what is going to happen to their income in 2009," Ewanick told Automotive News.

Hyundai issues recalls for faulty brake switch, loose bracket

Hyundai is recalling 186,254 Elantra vehicles from model years 2011-2013 to replace a support bracket on the headliner. Hyundai says the bracket can be dislodged during a side-curtain-airbag deployment and could injure the driver. In a crash in May, an occupant’s ear was cut when the driver’s side curtain airbag deployed.

Diddy stars in new Fiat 500L spot

The dream of the '90s is apparently alive at Fiat. Not Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein's crust punx, granola and symmetrical all-wheel drive u/dystopia, but the other side of the era; the flashy party-people late end of the decade that brought Sean Combs to global prominence. In Italian marque's new ad, the rapping, acting, designing businessman appears as the Mr.