New York City is suing Hyundai Motor and its affiliate Kia for negligence and creating a public nuisance over complaints about a “virtual explosion” of stolen cars blamed on a lack of anti-theft devices.
The New York lawsuit comes after several other major US cities sued the South Korean carmakers on similar grounds.
New York blamed Hyundai and Kia for their failure between 2011 and 2022 to install devices called immobilisers on most of their cars, which it claimed “opened the floodgates to vehicle theft, crime sprees, reckless driving, and public harm”.
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