First sales statistics reveal that Kia has a winner on its hands. The company received thousands of orders for the all-new cee’d hatchback since its launch. At the moment, Slovakian factory does not work at full capacity, but production will gradually expand during the coming months.

When fully operational, Kia’s first Euroean factory will be capable of producing as much as 300.000 new vehicles. Majority of the vehicles will belong to cee’d family, but the plant was designed to build at least two other models. It is very likely that Kia will move the production of Sportage SUV from Korea sometime by the end of 2009.

Back to Kia cee’d. The all-new cee’d features dynamic exterior design, which is attractive to European consumer’s tastes. Those looking forsportier versions of the cee’d will have to wait until Kia brings a hotter, 200-hp cee’d to the market. If you can’t wait for it, you can buy a sporty kit and fit it to the cee’d right now.

Incus XR body kit is available in most European countries and can be fited to the vehicle. The XR kit from INCUS includes a redesigned front bumper with more agressive air intake, as well as updated sporty grille. At rear, there’s an updated bumper with integrated tail-pipes (looks really attractive and sounds nice as well), while side of the car also features the “skirts”.

The cee’d XR also features redesigned alloy-wheels and XR badging in the grille!

Here are some images of the XR body kit, built by INCUS: