[reaganaut1]

Good for Alabama, and good for Hyundai. Manufacturing can flourish in right-to-work states.

[hinckley buzzard]

Mrs Buzzard drives a Hyundai Sonata. Troublefree and very driveable car.

[hattend]

Non-UAW?

[Islander7]

Two words: No Unions.

[jessduntno]

They just built it there so management would have access to all those gorgeous golf courses...

[kittymyrib]

Nice affordable cars for young families and retired folks to get around in.

[Paladin2]

Krafcik knows what he is doing.

[RoadTest]

I hear a very high percentage of Koreans are Christian.

[kbennkc]

Beautiful automobile. You don't get any more American than Alabama. It looks like Rush's Maybach,.. sorta.

[DemforBush]

I love my Elantra hatchback. There are a few minor things I don’t care for, like the funky “paperclip” mounts for the headlight bulbs. But in all the important areas - reliability, room, comfort - it’s been great.

[suthener]

This can’t be true. Just ask one of the senators from Washington (state) who said that the new Air Force tankers couldn’t be built in Alabama because we don’t have the intelligence to build technical products (that’s a paraphrase of what she said, but it is what she meant).

[radioone]

I’m on my 2nd Elantra. Both trouble free.

[winstonwolf33]

The United Automobile Workers union has long tried to organize plants in the United States operated by foreign carmakers, most of which are in the South, but has yet to succeed anywhere.

Bob King, president of UAW

[org.whodat]

I would bet money on the fact that a whole bunch of the workers don't speak ia de english the ones building it and the ones widen i85 to it didn't.

[SouthDixie]

Hyundai and its sister company, Kia

I did not know Kia was a sister to Hyundia but it makes sense and interestingly I have seen a lot of Kia's on the road lately.

[Tex-Con-Man]

It’s easy to understand why the Koreans would favor the South over the North...

[blam]

Some other good news for Alabama:

The largest private investment ever made in the USA, the ThyssenKrupp Steel USA, plant is coming on-line just north of Mobile.

We expect (Boeing be damned) to land the $35 billion US Air Force tanker contract here in Mobile within the next couple weeks.

BTW, we won it once but Boeing pulled political strings and had the award cancelled.

[WalterSobchak2012]

My daughter just bought a Hyundai Genesis Coupe after her Audi TT was stolen and wrecked. I had a blast driving it and my wife wants to buy one after we move to California later this year.

I would be all over a Sonata for myself were I not already going for the Nissan Leaf. (I'm buy it for purely nerdy as opposed to ecological reasons)

[Joan Kerrey]

I wanted to buy American but not UAW built and my 2011 Sonata has ended up being the perfect car for me. It’s sleek, elegant, comfy, has all the gadgets I need in it and gets really great milage. My round trips always average 36mpg or higher yet the 4 cylinder has more pep than I need. Never been happier with a new car and I’ve had many in my 70+ years.

[Army Air Corps]

Auto Ping.

[McGruff]

My 2006 Sonata was built there. Great car.