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USA: Kia sales in October 2012 increase nearly 13 percent!
We are happy to announce the month of October 2012 being yet-another record breaking month for the Kia brand in the United States.
Kia’s sales last month increased to 42,452 units and were up 12,6 percent from the same month a year ago!
With only two months to go in the year, Kia Motors America is already well on track to break its all-time sales records for the U.S. market. October 2012 sales of 42,452 units have pushed the carmaker’s year-to-date sales to 477,366 units which is very close to 2011 full year figure of 485,492 units.
October sales by model repeated the September 2012 sales finishing order, with the Kia Optima, Sorento CUV and Soul crossover vehicle in first, second, and third place, respectively. With 12,948 units sold last month, the 2013 Kia Optima retained its sales crown, beating the Kia Sorent0’s 9,615 units sold and Soul’s 7,988 units sold.
Following the top-three best-selling Kia vehicles last month were the Kia Forte (sales count the Forte Koup and Forte 5-door hatchback), Rio and Sportage with sales of 5.911, 2.623 and 2.223 units, respectively.
Finally, the Sedona minivan came in 7th with sales falling from 1,541 units in October 2011 to 1,144 units last month.
Although the Sedona has not seen any major updates in styling and powertrain technology, the vehicle (as well as the minivan segment) remains important to Kia Motors America.
We have learned that the South Korean carmaker is hard at work to bring a completely re-designed Sedona minivan to the market late next year, so stay tuned for the latest updates on the upcoming Kia Sedona MPV!
October 2012 Kia sales by model:
awesome, congrats to kia!
Can’t wait to see November’s record sales. According to my dealership, consumer interest is the same as it was before. The service manager has been flooded with calls, but says out of all the calls, he hasn’t had a single customer that was actually mad about it. This is only the beginning. Hyundai and Kia were smart to get ahead of this, because there are more audits on the way from the EPA. Lots of manufacturers are going to get slammed.
What does mileage matter when the warranty is a scam.
Just got off the phone with Kia Eastern Region. I’ve got an important warning and gotcha from Kia. Kia will not honor the 10/100 powertrain warranty unless you can prove that you have maintained the car under schedule 2 – Sever Maintenance. They will tell you this due to at least 2 of the items they list.
– Driving in areas where salt or other corrosive materials are being used.
– Driving for prolonged period in cold temperatures and/or extreme-ly humid climates.
Good luck finding somewhere in the continental United States where they can’t say either. Now the dealer service manager already told me that the salt one doesn’t apply because it’s internal transmission damage. The word prolonged is defined as, “to lengthen in time”.
They need amazing psychological marketing and samsung’s business model. I really dont think that hkag’s leaders are making the right decisions for their shareholders. They certainly dont have enough geniuses toreduce manufacturing costs and provide equally competant engineering. They dont have visionaries like lee kun hee that can see future trends and invest heavily into it. As well hyundai ruined their name a long time ago starting with the pony. Kia has a nice name now but they need to stay ahead price and tech wise. And hyundai can not supply kia with ahead of competition price.
For example instead of 145-160 hp for the elantra they could have lowered the hp and increased mpg. The left steering should have resolved and nipped in the bud. But they didnt test the handling of the car enough.
hkag still have potential to dethrone toyota, with only the pure altaic race. Many koreans race mixed by rape of chinese and japanese barbarians, jomon neanderthals. That is the unfortunate past. Today
koreans with their genius bloodlines still not dirtied need to
take cobtrol of this floundering ownersip group ino.
First get rid of that dumb logo and put a logo that represents stregth courqge power and gentleess at the same time. The tiger is the national animal of korea. It is majestic, powerful, clever, agressive, tribal, beautiful. That should.be the symbol for hyundai absolutely. Powerful celebrities like downey jr need to be paid handsomely like peter schreyer is being paid.
Lets face it. Downey jr can command 50 million a film because he is the magnet that draws everybody to the theaters. Everyone loves this.guy. He would be a great representation of either the hyundai or kia brand. Not some above average nba player like blake griffin.
Justin bieber can sell to the youth. Very important!!. Plus horrible.drsigns that have no.language or fluidiy need to be thrown out. Chung moo koo needs to pverlook the desigbs of every hyundai model and use his darn common sense that the tuscon and veloster and even the elantra looks kind of strange. Minimalism and contraint and proportion are really key. I ecven have my original ideas to how tail lights can be designed in a very cool way.
Thirdly samsungs business model of total vertical integration and consistant research into material sciences will pay huge dividends for any brand not named apple. Samsung is a legendary comapny because no one can vertically integrate their supply chain like they can . Most companies are just repaxkinging already available third party components and repackage then into a computer or phone. Its so easy, i can do the same thing. Take a snapdragon processor, samsung ram, auo display, and chineae battery. And you have youraelf a prototypical android phone. Samsung can decelop theor own components for phones and computera. They are world class components and samsung leverages this ability to put the best stuff into their own products. Oled 20 nm ram exynos processors samsung lens and samsung batteries. End result is a device that is world class.that cant be beat on price. The galaxy s3 and galaxy note.
World class.steel that advertises.the steel. World class engines. World class transimissions. World class steering and handling are critical for car companies. And hyundai does not have all aspects of vertical integration mastered. Hkag need to invest in handling and suspensions, steering mechanics, fuel economy, interior.ergonomics, etc.
Lastly, teaching fellow prospective employees who have great potential the beed to be healthy in mind. Eating organic food, breathing cleaner air, and accrss to clean distilled water will transform your workplace and start to reignite the flames of creativiy. People who eat organic food far surpass.their neighbors.who do not. Americans athletes that eat organic food usually far outperform their competition. Tom brady , tony gonzalez, manning brothers, carmelo anthony, lebron james, andy dalton etc. They outperforming their competitipn because they are professed organic eaters. Your company should require all the best management to have acccess to whole foods and not junk foods.
in Canada the Rio outsells the Fiesta (YTD this year to the end of October) 11,910 vs 10,621