Hyundai and Kia resolve a TikTok automobile theft challenge for $200 million (Copy)

Hyundai and Kia settled a class-action lawsuit relating

to a spate of car thefts sparked by a popular social media challenge

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on TikTok for $200 million. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety

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Administration, the so-called "Kia Challenge" on the social networking

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platform has sparked hundreds of auto thefts around the country, resulting at least 14 recorded

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wrecks and eight fatalities. Thieves who went by the moniker "the Kia Boyz"

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although the normally aspirated 4-cyl. is a carryover. The I-6, on the other hand, is a brand-new engine

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