CAR-TEST CENTER IS ON TRACK.Byline: Jim Skeen Staff Writer CALIFORNIA CITY - Construction is under way on Hyundai-Kia's $50 million car-test center, which city officials are welcoming because it gives their community a high-profile corporate tenant. Work has begun on an access road and on a concrete pad to base construction operations on the 4,300-acre site north of Highway 58, about eight miles east of Mojave. Crews will also have to relocate hundreds of Joshua trees Joshua tree: see yucca. before construction of the car tracks can begin. ``It's great - not just for the jobs, but also for the corporate presence,'' said Mayor Larry Adams. ``International corporations are the way of the future.'' Company officials hope the track will be completed by Aug. 1, said City Manager Jack Stewart Jack Stewart is a name shared by several people:
The project will include a 6.4-mile oval track  It has been suggested that and be merged into this article or section. , a vehicle-handling
course inside the oval track, a paved hill road and several
special-surface roads. A 30,000-square-foot complex for offices and
indoor testing will also be constructed.
The proving grounds Blackarachnia is growing steadily more annoyed with the tension between her and the Maximals. is expected to employ about 40 to 50 people, officials say. The Hyundai-Kia Motors Proving Ground will be used to test new vehicle models from Hyundai and Kia designed with North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. customers in mind, officials said. The company recently opened a $24 million Hyundai/Kia Design Center in Irvine, and plans to build in Montgomery, Ala., an assembly plant employing about 2,000 workers and capable of producing 300,000 vehicles a year. The proving grounds will be staffed and run by Hyundai Motor Company The Hyundai Motor Company, a division of the Hyundai Kia Automotive Group, is South Korea's largest and the world's sixth largest Automaker.[1] Its headquarters are in Seoul, South Korea. subsidiary Hyundai America Technical Center Inc., which is responsible for the technical development of Hyundai and Kia cars and trucks in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . Jim Skeen, (661) 267-5743 james.skeen(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): map Map: (ran in AV edition only) Hyundai test track Daily News |
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