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Kia reports October global sales
Kia Motors Corporation announced today its global sales figures for passenger cars, recreational vehicles and commercial vehicles for October 2009, recording a total of 148,583 units sold.
This figure represents a year-on-year increase of 34.6%.
By region, Kia posted year-on-year sales increases in China (24,896 units sold, a 119.3% year-on-year increase), North America (26,093 units sold, a 41.7% year-on-year increase), general markets (29,621 units sold, a 31.7% year-on-year increase), Europe (31,956 units, a 30.1% year-on-year increase) and Korea (39,017 units, a 7.2% year-on-year increase).
Cumulatively, through the first ten months of 2009, Kia’s global sales increased by 13.9% year-on-year and reached 1,336,378 units.
The Chinese market experienced the highest gain with 191,765 units sold to date, representing a 54.8% increase.
South Korea, general markets, and North America showed cumulative year-on-year sales increases of 24.6% (327,542 units sold), 12.6% (243,530 units sold) and 8.8% (301,069 units sold), respectively.
To date, Kia’s best selling model in overseas markets has been the C-segment Cerato (known as ‘Spectra’ or ‘Forte’ in some markets) with 237,402 units sold.
Kia’s B-segment Rio and Sportage compact SUV compete closely for second with 141,929 and 141,564 units sold, respectively.
The C-segment cee’d comes in fourth with 102,963 units sold, and the Picanto rounds up the top five with 84,761 units sold.
In terms of vehicle category sold overseas, Kia passenger and recreational vehicles achieved year-on-year increases in October of 53.2% (73,037 units) and 40.9% (36,621 units), respectively.
GM/Daewoo motors don’t sell?
GM got 2 feet in Korea, why he don’t sell? cuz it is not hyundai brand name!
GM is better to change name!
It’s nice to see that Kia is being rewarded with strong sales after taking the chance to make the Forte a truly beautiful car instead of a rolling appliance.
Webmaster change the poll it’s a long time there. Make a new one .make the question , if you have Kia ,You buy an other kia your next car ?. 3 answers Yes , No , i don’t known
That’s good! Let your mind wonder about these things. Kia keeps everything wound up tight, so there is no way to tell!
I dont think GMOYOTA-Pronounced Joy-Mota (YES, I THINK THEY WILL MERGE WITHIN THE NEXT 10 YEARS) is not ignoring Korean Manufacturers. No, I actually think they are using Korea as a bridge country until the Chinese get better, and then will profit off the Chinese, like they are profiting off of the Koreans.
The Chinese and Indians will Wal-Mart us with cheap junk at first, maybe even sell the cars at a loss until they get a footing in the US. By then they will only start to sell us quality cars and they will have the government backing them, only just a matter of time 5 to10 years.
Chajee the Chinese have been selling MGs in America, under our noses off the radar for 7 years. Their sales are very very low, and they have shit reliability, but they are probably the most refined out of the Chinese makes.
You also hae to special order them as well.
It took the Japanes 20 years, the Koreans are apparentely finishing the job in 10, the Chinese will probably do it in 5!
Talk about the BIG Accord, GM and Thai-o-ta merging, huh? I didn’t see that one coming, baby. Though I believe that I have heard it mentioned sometime in the vast automotive interweb world we have come to call home before.
No they went there separate ways when NUMMMI closed down.
True Chagee, but Im talking out 5-10 years they will merge. They will Find a Climate Competing with Hyundai/KIA and VW/Audi hard to swallow. They as evil dooers will have to join forces against good.
Uhh…really. VW/Audi is indeed the enemy. Vast and truedat. Yuk!
It will be a friendly competition, that sometmes gets nasty. We might even get to share a platform with them one day, like GM and Toyota. We already share tech, or havent you heard that Hyundai/KIA is VW/Audis low cost Korean Supplier of tech such as: Microchips, ECUs, Wiring, etc…