ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Hyundai Motor North America has christened a $51.4 million safety and investigation center outside Detroit that will focus on quick response and countermeasures to auto problems in the field.
The Safety Test and Investigation Laboratory, dedicated Tuesday near Ann Arbor, Mich., was developed in compliance with a record-setting $201 million civil penalty agreed to with U.S. safety regulators.
That consent order with the U.S. divisions of Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. came in 2020 after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found the automakers failed to recall about 1.6 million vehicles for engine-fire risk in a timely fashion. The recalls were in 2015 and 2017.