AP - Prosecutors said Wednesday they had questioned a top Hyundai Motor executive in a widening probe into suspicions the largest South Korean automaker created slush funds to bribe government officials.

AP - Prosecutors formally arrested the top executive of an affiliate of Hyundai Motor Co. on Tuesday in an investigation into suspicions that South Korea's largest carmaker created slush funds through its subsidiaries for bribery.

AFP - The Czech Republic is set to join Europe's auto major league with an announcement by South Korean group Hyundai that it will site its first European plant at Nosovice, in the east of the country.

Reuters - Shares of South Korean car companies Hyundai Motor Co. (005380.KS) and affiliate Kia Motors Corp. (000270.KS) fell on Monday after prosecutors raided their offices in a probe that local media tied to lobbying.

Denise Royal - AHN Staff Writer Washington (AHN) - Seven sport utility vehicles have earned the highest ratings in government crash tests. The 2006 models of the Ford Explorer, Honda Pilot, Hyundai Tucson, Mercedes Benz M-L-class, Nissan Murano and Subaru B-nine Tribeca all received five stars...

AFP - South Korea's Kia Motors Corp says it will set up a 1.2-billion-dollar plant in the US state of Georgia, as its parent Hyundai Motor Group seeks to globalize its production base.

AP - Among the cars parked in the players' lot Thursday at the Florida Marlins' spring training complex were a Kia, a Hyundai, two Buicks, two Impalas, a Jetta, a Chevy Cavalier and a new Ford Taurus.

AP - The city's best-known candidate campaigns in an armored Chevy Suburban with tinted windows and room for the ruling Fatah Party bodyguards who shadow him around the West Bank. One of his main rivals drives his own dented Hyundai with a green Hamas flag tied to the radio antenna.

AFP - Their names may be Toyota, Honda, and Hyundai, but Asian auto producers are using an emphatic "Made In America" sales pitch to muscle into the competitive US car and truck market.

Reuters - Hyundai Motor Co. (005380.KS), South Korea's top auto maker, said on Tuesday it was targetting a 6.3 percent increase in 2006 operating profit to 1.9 trillion won ($1.94 billion).