Hyundai has been named the 2009 North American car of the year.

Myron Scott is credited for naming the car after the type of small, maneuverable warship called a corvette.

"Did you know we named the car after you?"

GM asked school children to name the car, and one of them suggested "Hy-wire".

Scott Riggs was named to pilot the car for the 2009 season.

Naming the car was a matter of serious concern for both Staudt and me.

Nissan faced an equally daunting challenge in 1987 when its executives sat down to name the car.

It had been Wiley, a white man, who had named the car in the first place.

That is like Henry Ford's naming the car after his son Edsel.

In 2007, a European competition was launched in which the public had a chance to name the car.