Hyundai and Kia owners have lived with the fallout of the viral theft wave for years. Certain models were notoriously easy to break into, and social media did the rest, turning a design flaw into a nationwide crisis.

Shares of Hyundai Motor rallied on Wednesday by as much as 14.9% to hit a record high in morning trade, outperforming the benchmark KOSPI's 1.2% gain amid market speculation about a potential deeper tie-up with Nvidia.

Hyundai's best selling car in 2025 was its Tucson compact SUV, which the company said sold 234,230 units last year, which represented a 14% jump over its 2024 sales total of 206,126 vehicles. Here's how Hyundai's other models fared in 2025:

Hyundai is exploring a midgate for future trucks, and a new patent shows how it plans to keep water out of the cabin.

Robot dogs dancing to K-pop and the first public appearance of Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid robot highlight Hyundai’s CES tech showcase.

Hyundai's presentation takes place today, January 5 at 4PM ET, and you can livestream it on either its HyundaiUSA YouTube channel or its global YouTube channel. (We've embedded the link below.) We'll also post relevant news from the Hyundai presser in our main CES 2026 liveblog.

Because Hyundai’s EVs stumbled badly at the end of the year. Ioniq 5 sales fell 50 percent in December compared to the same month last year. Ioniq 6 dropped even harder, down 62 percent. In the fourth quarter, both models were also down sharply, by almost 60 percent.

HERE enables Hyundai AutoEver’s connected mobility vision, providing location services that support software-defined vehicle capabilities.