18th November, 2010
Kia Motors Corporation announced its global sales figures for passenger cars (export sales, domestic sales and sales from overseas plants), recreational vehicles (RVs) and commercial vehicles for October 2010, recording a total of 182,288 units sold.
This figure represents a year-on-year increase of 22.7%.
In October, Kia posted year-on-year sales increases in all regions of the world – 36.8% in North America (35,687 units sold), 30.0% in general markets (38,498 units sold), 25.0% in China (31,124 units sold), 19.8% in Korea (43,147 units sold) and 5.9% in Europe (33,832 units sold).
Kia’s best selling model in overseas markets for the month of October was the C-segment Cerato (known as ‘Forte’ in some markets) with 34,829 units sold. The Sportage compact CUV and Sorento mid-size CUV follow with 20,635 and 16,517 units sold, respectively. The B-segment Rio comes in fourth with 16,059 units sold and the Soul urban crossover vehicle rounds out the top five with 12,281 units sold.
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