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Photo credit: Hyundai
April 13, 2012
By: CF staff

Hyundai could see U.S. sales top 700,000 vehicles this year despite the Korean automaker's tight vehicle supplies, a top executive said today.

Hyundai Chairman Chung Mong-koo, who is credited with leading a focus on quality at the automaker since he took over in 2000, has capped production capacity globally, so plants will need to squeeze any added output from the current production schedule, said John Krafcik, head of Hyundai's North American operations.

Last year Hyundai sold 645,691 cars and SUVs in the United States, an increase of 20 percent from 2010.

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Combined with Kia they will exceed a million