Listen to this:

Toyota telling suppliers not to sell parts to Hyundai It has been said before that Toyota's biggest worry is not overtaking GM in sales, but rather Hyundai overtaking Toyota in sales. With that in mind, Toyota has told suppliers not to sell parts to Hyundai. If the suppliers resist, Toyota may increase their stockholding in these companies, and thereby force them to do so.

Snippet: It could be said that major car parts are developed jointly by carmakers and their affiliates. So, "It's like fattening a rival company at Toyota's own development expenses," says Toyota official. Some Toyota executives said, "We may have to pressure (the parts makers) not to do business with Hyundai. It may sound extremely drastic, but we may have to think of raising the stockholdings of our affiliates to make them do as we tell them."

SOURCE: StraightLine Blog


For the whole story : http://www.jinbn.com/2006/06/16211758.html

 

i would buy a hyundai, and almost did. it was a 2001 elantra. it looked really nice to. they are really nice cars.
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i think the only reason toyota has to be worried about hyundai overtaking their sales is that hyundai sells their cars so cheap and you get wut you pay for give it a few more years and ull see the old ones breakin down all the time...i wouldnt buy a hyundai, but thats me

 

yah and I think your completley wrong. The Azera and the Sonata, along with the new Elantra, and the upcoming RWD Tiburon are all headed in the right direction. Hyundai cannot charge more or even the same as Toyota because of their past reputation, and Toyota has built a much better reputation, but just remember there was a point in time where no one would buy a Jap car, and GM was in Toyota's postition.

At least Toyota is smart about it and realizing their competition is catching up. I dont think the exec's at toyota are sitting in a room deciding to buy up parts suppliers because they feel Hyundai is going to over take them because they are cheap, thats completley moronic, go take a business course lol

They are realizing they are using the same parts suppliers Toyota is using now, instead of using their own suppliers in previous years which is a big reason why their cars had the reputation they had.

These cars are all Value priced not cheaply made. You can let your bias against Hyndai blind you, which is fine, but your wrong.

 

Also a side note, Hyundai makes alot of engines for other car companies, if not outright then jointly.

 

yeah ill take the business course right away... and
...but at least i could spell

 

i didnt know that...who do they make engines or help make engines for?

 

im sorry you couldnt bring up any intelligent points to contridict my argument, instead you had to point out a few typos. This helps your topic tremendously. <---thats sarcasam, why dont you get back ON topic.

 

Mitsu for one. The 3.0 V6 in the 3rd gen eclipse(also in the tibby) was co-produced by Mitsu/Hyundai.

 

not to mention the 1.8, 2.0, and 2.4 world engines.

also the tiburons 6spd comes out of the nissan sentra se-r.