Maybe when you get to the top spot, it's like you're the manager and there are errors, the coach gets put aside. I did the best I could. I worked tirelessly for the company. I was surprised when it happened.

Over the past six years Hyundai sales have grown 364 percent, and that's more than any other car company in that time period. That puts us solidly as the fourth-largest import carmaker in the United States.