MANILA, Philippines - Kia Motors Corporation announced recently its global sales figures (export sales, domestic sales and sales from overseas plants) for passenger cars, recreational vehicles (RVs) and commercial vehicles for September 2011 and recorded a total of 217,736 units sold, an increase of 16.3% as compared to September of last year.
Kia posted year-on-year sales increases in all of its overseas regions – 45.9% in China (46,170 units sold), 20.6% in North America (41,997 units sold) and 20.6% in Europe (47,256 units sold). September sales in Kia’s home market of Korea grew year-on-year by 4.4% (41,952 units sold).
Cumulatively, through the first nine months of 2011, Kia’s global sales have increased by 18.2% year-on-year to reach 1,827,622 units. North America has experienced the highest gain to date in 2011 of 35.0% (419,075 units sold) while the remaining regions have all shown strong cumulative year-on-year sales increases: 27.1% in China (321,777 units sold), 18.9% in Europe (349,778 units sold), 9.6% in general markets (369,378 units sold) and 4.4% in Korea (367,614 units sold).
Kia’s best selling model in overseas markets for the month of September was the C-segment Cerato (known as “Forte” in some markets) with 32,887 units sold. The Sportage compact CUV was the second best seller with 29,571 units delivered, while the B-segment Rio, mid-sized SUV Sorento, and the urban crossover vehicle Soul followed with 26,392, 19,644 and 14,742 units sold, respectively.