The plant was designed to manufacture approximately 2000 Hyundai Sonatas per week.
On November 19, 2012, Pastore was seriously injured on the Foothill (210) Freeway in Duarte, California when a 56-year-old woman from Glendora, California, driving a Hyundai Sonata, inexplicably collided with his Honda VTX 1800, throwing him off the motorcycle.
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Initially launched with Mitsubishi-sourced 2.0L SOHC MPI version of the engine used in the first generation Sonata, a 2.4 L SOHC MPI engine was added in 1987.