On the outside, the restyling imbues the brand’s best-selling nameplate with a massive crest grille and its signature two-lined quad lamps up front.

Even before being tapped as the new leader of Hyundai Motor Group, Euisun Chung was a key mover in the push to modernize the company. His inaugural remarks last week showed where's he's heading.

The prosecution in the criminal trial of former Nissan exec Greg Kelly claims Nissan managers resorted to paper companies, dummy accounts and decoy bonuses to others just to conceal the size of their boss' compensation package.

General Motors may have raised questions with its recent fuel cell truck development plans. But Hyundai and Toyota are coming up right behind it.

Euisun Chung, 49, has exerted more influence over the entire auto group in recent years. His father gave up his board seat in Hyundai Motor this year after stepping back from daily operations. Mong-Koo Chung, 81, was made honorary chairman in the shuffle.

The luxury brand's new global design chief is putting his own stamp on the look of the lineup, starting with a fresh aura for the QX55 and QX60 crossovers arriving next year.

From Silicon Valley to Wolfsburg, automakers increasingly see the mastery of software as core to expertise in cars.

James Kuffner's meteoric rise at Toyota says much about its ambition to transform itself into a futuristic software maker.

The prototype is further evidence Toyota's GR division intends to make a production version of the sleek GR Super Sport Concept that it showed at the Tokyo Auto Salon in January 2018.

Infiniti previews the next-generation QX60 crossover with a more premium feel that it says will help lure customers from rivals and boost sales in 2021.

Nissan has developed a way of producing carbon-fiber components more quickly and cheaply as a step toward deploying the lightweight parts in mass-market vehicles around 2024.

A design study signals the next-generation QX60 crossover will become more muscular, futuristic and premium as the brand looks too stoke sales.

Former Nissan director Greg Kelly's trial in Tokyo is also casting a searing light on Carlos Ghosn, Nissan and business in Japan.

Hyundai's next-generation Tucson hits U.S. showrooms in the first half of 2021 in a redesign that adds bolder styling and two hybrid options.

The world's would-be EV leader is charging up for a second crack at the segment, and the automaker is as optimistic as ever.