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Today, Hyundai has one of the hottest cars on the road with the Genesis, a sleek and expensive sedan that won the North American and Canadian car of the year awards. "Who would have ever thought we'd be selling a car over $40,000?" quips Vernile. "We can't keep them in stock." Hyundai's sudden rise is just one more sign of how quickly the auto landscape is changing. The former Big Three automakers GM, Ford, and Chrysler ruled North America with an iron fist for decades. But their dominion has virtually evaporated overnight, leaving a host of hungry new players messily clambering for a piece of a global market that's suddenly been thrown wide open. For the first time in decades, no one really knows who the new giants of the auto industry will be, let alone what kind of technology will be under the hoods of the cars they make. The contenders are many, from Fiat, which just took a controlling stake in Chrysler, to India's Tata Motors, which recently rolled out the world's cheapest car to any number of German automakers, like Mercedes, that have been gobbling up market share. Then there are the fastgrowing Chinese car companies, like Geely and BYD. Instead of the Big Three, now we have "seven or eight players, none of which dominate, and all of which are competitors and very motivated," says Tom Libby, a Detroitbased independent auto analyst. "It's very different than it was 20 years ago." Keeping track of all these new players almost requires a flow chart. While GM has been desperately downsizing to stay alive, other much smaller and once unheardof manufacturers have been anxiously snatching up its castoffs. Hummer was bought by a Chinese company that makes tow trucks. Saab was bought by Koenigsegg, a tiny Swedish company that makes a handful of highend supercars each year. Both are companies that previously lacked the scale to become massmarket carmakers, yet they're suddenly players in the much soughtafter North American consumer market. Hummer's new owner has already said that it will set its sights on selling Americans what some are calling an oxymoron: a new, fuelefficient Hummer. "I think that in the long term they will play a significant role in the market, just because of the amount of resources they have and the motivation they have," says Libby. Such upstart companies will be up against some massive but vulnerable industry heavyweights. Toyota has lost more than $4 billion over the past year, but still holds the number one spot in the world, with close to nine million vehicles sold globally. GM is still hanging on to the number two slot, with sales of 8.4 million vehicles last year, but it's sure to fall, especially after selling off its European arm, Opel. Other smaller companies, meanwhile, have been consolidating in an effort to crack into the upper echelons of the auto world. Along with Hyundai and its fast growing Kia brand, Fiat's move to take over Chrysler has launched it up the rankings, to number six. With the sudden surge in competition, it's anyone's guess which companies will eventually end up on top. It's not even clear what kind of technology will be driving cars in 20 years. Everyone understands the postgasoline engine is where the action is, but nobody knows how it will play out, says James Rubenstein, an auto analyst at Miami University in Ohio. "It's like picking up all the pieces on the board and throwing them up the air and seeing where they land," he says. So while they fight for market share, carmakers are also keeping a close eye on the rearview mirror, and the dozens of new electric car manufacturers creeping up behind them. A few years ago, Tesla, for instance, was a novelty act, selling a niche electric roadster that costs more than $100,000 hardly a threat to a top10 automaker. But now it has plans to start selling a $40,000 sedan and has been opening dealerships and expanding its distribution network. government to build its new sedan, and company owner Elon Musk said that Tesla will "cross over into profitability" this month. Government money, like the loan that helped Tesla, is helping to muddy the game even more, by providing big bucks to hightech startups and accelerating their growth. Not only are they providing research and development funding, governments are also providing incentives to lure consumers to the new technologies. The government of Ontario, for instance, upped the ante last week, with a plan to offer as much as $10,000 in incentives to buyers of electric cars by 2010 one of the largest electric auto incentives seen yet. 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