We visit Hyundai's Nurburgring test center - Autoblog (blog)
On the corporate side, Hyundai was quick to react to the market, introducing new models and refreshing current ones models more quickly than other carmakers at the time, and selling them at impossible-to-resist prices. By 2002 Hyundai was the fourth-rated import brand by sales in the US, a position it's held ever since. In JD Power's Initial Quality Survey the brand scored 23rd out of 36 in 2003, climbing to fourth out of 33 in 2015. Vehicle dependability has taken a hit in the last five years, going from 11th out of 36 in 2010 to 26th out of 31 in 2015. Still,... In 2013 Hyundai moved out of the rented garage it had been using at the Nürburgring for two years and into its 6. 62-million-euro European Test Center , four floors and 38,987 square feet of workshops, offices, and hospitality areas. The Center's front gate is about 30 steps from the famous Döttinger Höhe gas station on Route 258. On the other side, the Tech Center's elevated positions means that its polished silver tiles loom over every other automaker test center on... Stephan Hoferer, the Center's manager and the group manager for durability, fatigue and corrosion, vehicle test, and development, said other carmakers tried to block Hyundai building on that site – and there are regulations against having a... Source: www.autoblog.com
