Each year, the ALG "Residual Value Awards" help consumers make the right choices regarding their next vehicle purchase by honoring the most fiscally viable vehicles and automakers in the world today. Last year, Hyundai shook up the automotive industry by not just placing well in the compact segment of the awards, but by flat-out topping it with the Hyundai Elantra.

Now it seems that history it repeating itself, as the 2012 Hyundai Elantra recently topped…