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• Hyundai Elantra sitting pretty atop <i>Consumer Reports</i> list

  Filed under: Car Buying , Economy , Sedans/Saloons , Wagons/Estates , Hyundai click above for high-res gallery of the 2009 Hyundai Elantra Touring While the big Japanese auto manufacturers have been incrementally improving their vehicles ever since they were first launched in the U.S., Hyundai has been bettering itself in leaps and bounds. While we're not quite ready to anoint Hyundai as the second coming of Toyota, it just isn't all that shocking anymore to hear that the Hyundai Elantra is now Consumer Reports ' top-ranked 2008 vehicle amongst 19 other compacts and subcompacts. Beating out such high-quality stalwarts as the Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla and Toyota Prius is very impressive work, and Hyundai is justifiably proud of the accomplishment. Jim Trainor, a Hyundai spokesman, told the Detroit Free Press , "As I got the note from Consumer Reports , we were ecstatic. Coming from such a highly regarded industry source like Consumer Reports , it really says a lot about... Posted Jun 03 2008, 05:29 AM by Autoblog Filed under: Wagons/Estates, Hyundai, Sedans/Saloons, ConsumerReports, consumer reports, Car Buying, Economy, best small car, consumer-reports, best-small-car, BestSmallCar, hyundai-elantra, HyundaiElentra, hyundai elentra