Hyundai Motor Company Rotten Score Breakdown

California’s attorney general announced a December 2025 settlement expressly naming Hyundai Motor Company and affiliates over the manufacture and sale of certain 2011–2022 vehicles without standard engine immobilizers. The agreement provides free security remedies, consumer restitution and payments to states; it resolves the states’ claims and is not a criminal conviction or a stated admission by Hyundai. Direct state attorney general source: https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-secures-settlement-hyundai-and-kia-selling-easy-steal

The U.S. EPA identified Hyundai Motor Company itself among defendants in a 2014 Clean Air Act consent-decree settlement concerning overstated fuel economy and understated greenhouse-gas emissions in 2012–2013 model-year Hyundai and Kia vehicles. Hyundai and Kia together agreed to a $100 million civil penalty and forfeiture of emissions credits; $100 million was the combined amount, not Hyundai’s individual penalty. EPA described the violations as allegations resolved through settlement. Direct EPA source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/hyundai-and-kia-clean-air-act-settlement The court approved the Hyundai–Kia consent decree on January 9, 2015: https://case-law.vlex.com/vid/united-states-v-hyundai-894150760