Hyundai Motor America expects to sell 600,000 new cars and crossovers this year in the U.S. That would be a record. Demand for the new Elantra and Sonata sedans is leading the sales and market share
growth. Earlier this year, the Fountain Valley, Calif.-based company said it didn't have the capacity to do that kind of volume but has since boosted it at its plant in Alabama. Some degree of
Hyundai's success is due to the Japanese automaker's struggle to extract capacity from hobbled operations in Japan that are still getting back up to full bore.
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