Hyundai brings Toyota’s Michael O’Brien to head U.S. product planning
Motor America can officially stick another feather in its cap. The company has successfully managed to woo Mike O’Brien from the clutches of and back onto the Korean automaker’s team. O’Brien worked at Hyundai for a full 14 years as a product planner before jumping ship and heading over to Toyota as a corporate manager. Now he’s back, and will be filling the role of vice president of product and corporate planning under the Hyundai flag.
So what does that mean for future Hyundai products? Any hypotheses we throw out now would be little more than guesses, but according to the press release, O’Brien is a car guy first and foremost and spends his off-time buzzing around in a decommissioned French . Here’s hoping some of that need for speed translates into a few more aggressive pieces of machinery from Hyundai. for the press release.
[Source: Hyundai]
Car, CTS, Hyundai, Mac, Need for Speed, Official, Other, ring, tC, Time, toyota, U.S.
