Pirates Seize Ship Carrying 2,300 Hyundai's

The Business Insider ^ | 1-7-2010 | Graham Winfrey

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Pirates Seize Ship Carrying 2,300 Hyundai's

Graham Winfrey
Jan. 7, 2010, 9:29 AM

A ship carrying 2,300 Hyundai's and Kia's was captured by Somali pirates about 600 miles off the coast of Somalia late Friday, The Car Connection reports.

Not to make light of something as serious as a pirate attack, but Hyundai's own public relations man Dan Bedore's tweeted that: "Even Pirates seem to be switching to Hyundai."

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[Grunthor]

“Pirates Seize Ship Carrying 2,300 Hyundai’s”

Oh thank God, I thought they took something useful!

[Roccus]

If my 92 Lumina would have qualified for Cash4Clunkers, I was ready to buy a new Hyundai.....still may.

[BureaucratusMaximus]

Um...yeah. Hyundai is not OWNED by Toyota. That’s flat out MIS-information.

[MrB]

Me as well...

Just seeing those cheap little cookie cutter cars all lined up on that ship is funny for some reason.

Even funnier that someone would steal them.

[Lockbar]

I think it would be funny if the pirates docked the ship and just let people get in and drive cars away. How long would it take before all the cars were wrecked pieces of junk? I’d say 3 weeks.

[Overtaxed Patriot]

I bet the pirates are pissed.

[MrB]

You’d think they’d at least be consistent in their ignorance.

[GreenHornet]

GM and Chrysler have immediately dispatched ships full of their products to the area in yet another effort to reduce unsold inventory.

[B Knotts]

Hyundai was not "bought by Toyota."

It is the world's 4th largest automaker, and is outdoing Toyota when it comes to offering exciting cars for a reasonable price.

In 2006, they beat Toyota in the J.D. Power & Associates quality ranking.

[flying_bullet]

But Kia is a subsidiary of Hyundai.

[TChris]

Carfax report: Salvaged from Pirates.

LOL!

That would be a hoot. :-)

[IamConservative]

Pirates were probably all wearing Purple SEIU and Red Acorn T-Shirts.

[Responsibility2nd]

I bet the pirates are pissed.

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Coulda been worse. Coulda been a boat-load of Chevrolets and Dodges.

[70th Division]

So the pirats are going to hold the Hyundia’s for ransom? Hmmm new meaning to “Cash for clunkers”

[B Knotts]

Yes, it is, but I’m not sure what that has to do with it.

Kia got into financial problems, and Hyundai bought them.

[Red Badger]

MILLIONS FOR DEFENSE, BUT NOT ONE CENT FOR TIBURONS!.............

[maggief]

“For some reason this makes me laugh.’

I’m still laughing! Talk about stupid pirates. :)

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[McGruff]

Betcha there's no pirate problems where my Hyundai Sonata was built.

Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama, LLC
700 Hyundai Blvd
Montgomery, Alabama 36105
(334) 387-8000
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[DocH]

Pirates Seize Ship Carrying 2,300 Hyundai's

No big loss. :)