Despite a steep price tag and less than stellar drivability, the 2011 Sonata puts Hyundai in the hybrid game, giving shoppers another reason to consider a brand they might have snubbed a few years ago.
In 2010, the Hyundai Sonata came out of nowhere to break into the ranks of the 10-best selling vehicles for the first time. Don't be surprised to see it challenge for the top five in MORE
Dec 30, 2010 10:31 AM ET
Sporting a glass cockpit with programmable touch screens, the Ford Edge offers space-age theatricality to the driving experience. But it may face some stiff internal competition when the Explorer is relaunched.
As CEO of Ford since 2006, aeronautical engineer Alan Mulally has adapted some airplane design ideas for automobiles. One of his first was standardizing the placement of controls on all Ford vehicles. You can find the windshield wiper switch in the MORE
Dec 28, 2010 3:01 PM ET
All week FORTUNE has been posting excerpts from our favorite business books of 2010. Below is the collected list of excerpts of our favorite reads, whether for your own holiday reading pleasure, a last minute gift, or both. Happy Holidays!
Monday The Facebook Effect: Mark Zuckerberg: The temptation of Facebook's CEO By David Kirkpatrick
Tuesday War at the Wall Street Journal: The Bancrofts, the board, and Murdoch By Sarah Ellison
Wednesday The Master Switch: America's original startup: The MORE
Dec 24, 2010 11:31 AM ET
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The Fortune 500 comes out just once a year, but the companies on it make headlines every day. Here then are today's highlights of news and happenings coming from the biggest names in business.
By Shelley DuBois, reporter
IT'S A RENTER'S ECONOMY for aircraft, that is. Air travel is picking up in general, but the return of jet-leasing is also helping companies such as Airbus MORE
Dec 23, 2010 8:35 AM ET
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The Fortune 500 comes out just once a year, but the companies on it make headlines every day. Here then are today's highlights of news and happenings coming from the biggest names in business.
By Shelley DuBois, reporter
RETURN TO SENDER Mark Hurd, former CEO of HP (HPQ), and his legal team are fighting to maintain the secrecy of the letter from former HP contractor MORE
Dec 22, 2010 8:42 AM ET
Like Lisbeth Salander, the heroine of Steig Larson's best-selling trilogy of thrillers, Sweden's Saab has been abused and neglected, and more than once left for dead. But despite having lost money for much of its existence, the automaker has survived. Now the first new Saab in eight years has been released. Will it be the start of a better life?
Saab has been wandering off by itself in the automotive wilderness MORE
Dec 22, 2010 5:00 AM ET
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The Fortune 500 comes out just once a year, but the companies on it make headlines every day. Here then are today's highlights of news and happenings coming from the biggest names in business.
By Shelley DuBois, reporter
STUCK IN TWO DIMENSIONS 3-D TV manufacturers are scrambling to reach their consumer base. While Amazon (AMZN) reported that its its two top two best-selling big MORE
Dec 21, 2010 8:49 AM ET
2010 was an annus horribilis for Volvo cars, and whether the future will be any brighter remains an open question.
After 15 months of uncertainty, Ford sold Volvo to Zhejiang Geely Holdings, the parent of Chinese automaker Geely, for the bargain price of $1.5 billion.
It was a humiliating comedown for the 83-year-old company whose competitive advantage from its strong safety reputation eroded under Ford's 11-year ownership by unimaginative product development, inroads MORE
Dec 20, 2010 12:13 PM ET
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The Fortune 500 comes out just once a year, but the companies on it make headlines every day. Here then are today's highlights of news and happenings coming from the biggest names in business.
By Shelley DuBois, reporter
THE AFRICAN OIL HANGUP Companies eager to start making money off of Africa's many oil exploration resources are hitting some road blocks. Among the companies MORE
Dec 20, 2010 8:13 AM ET
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The Fortune 500 comes out just once a year, but the companies on it make headlines every day. Here then are today's highlights of news and happenings coming from the biggest names in business.
By Shelley DuBois, reporter
INSIDER TRADING CRACKDOWN progresses as U.S. federal authorities arrest four major tech companies' employees accused of participating in an insider trading network that MORE
Dec 17, 2010 1:14 PM ET
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