Kia Motors Corp. expects to sell 100,000 Mohave sport-utility vehicles worldwide next year as it is set to begin selling the new model.
The automaker plans to sell 18,000 units of the Mohave in South Korea next year and exports are likely to total 82,000 units, said Lee Kwang-woo, head of Kia’s domestic operations, in a press conference to introduce a revamped version of one of its buses.
“I’m confident that Mohave would win sales in competition with Hyundai Motor’s Veracruz,” Lee said, referring Hyundai’s latest SUV model.
Kia, an affiliate of Hyundai, plans to start selling the Mohave SUV early next year. The new SUV will be sold overseas with the different name of “Borrego.”
For the whole of this year, Kia aims to sell 1.54 million vehicles worldwide, up 22 per cent from 2006.
November 29th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
They can say that again. SUVs like Borrego sell great here.
November 29th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Hey I got hold of a video on youtube about “the next” opirus. It shows some grille mounted camera in the front.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GIimZ7plNy8
November 29th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
The sales number is very high for such a large SUV. Especially now, when the gas prices are record high. The main selling market for Borrego will be U.S. market and consumers there react on every gas price hike with turning to smaller SUVs or even crossovers.
This is not good for Borrego sales, but will be good for Kia Soul when it reaches the worldwide markets.
I sincerely hope Kia can manage to achieve the sales numbers and continue it’s march, together with Hyundai, towards No. 5 in the world!
November 29th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
I thought that was a silver Borrego. Its that orange one, right? and grayscale has been used on it.
November 29th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
Yeah, I just noticed that. It WAS the Orange one. The gray looks good on it.
November 29th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Is the Kia Slice concept going to make to make to production or not. looks very nice one. I liked it
http://www.kiamedia.com/secure/slice.html
November 29th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
I haven’t heard one word about the Slice since 2003. I don’t think we’ll get it.
November 29th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
I don’t think the Slice was ever at an auto show either.
November 29th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
huh. never mind!
November 29th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
greg- I saw the vid of your optima- very nice. I have an 07 Optima EX V6 Ebony Black with the apperance package. I am getting the skirt kit for my optima from kia-fx.com in two months then I will post a pic for you all. I am awaiting a turbo or super charger for the new 2.7L that is compatible with the 07 optima too.
November 29th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
earlier I found a un cloaked pic of the new hyundai rwd tib replacment, but I lost the link. It looked pretty nice, and Kia would be samrt to have a modified clone of it next year.
November 29th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
Black optimas look so awsome!Maybe I’ll also put a pic of my Sportage soon but maybe in december. The pix are ready but I dont like opening my mail very often.
November 29th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
first of all can we put the pix on this site himi?
November 29th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
Aloha!:-)
Yes people, you’ll be able to post pics of your beautiful cars on this board. Right after Saturday, when we start the new KIA-WORLD blog! I’m very excited about this, because I have already seen the new version and it looks 10 times better! So let’s wait till Saturday right!
November 29th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
superb!
November 29th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
Right now i’m having some server problems, but I hope I can manage to fix them all till Saturday. So Saturday remains the D-day for KIA-WORLD blog!
November 29th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
That’s cool! There should be a place for people to post pictures of there Kias!
November 29th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
Watched the Oprius vid! It almost looks like an older model. What language was that? Korean?
November 29th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
According to my cell phone, it’s 15 miutes after midnight, boris! That time change thing has always fascinated me.
November 29th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
Colby, from “My door to yours” It’s 810.53 miles exactly(1304.36112 kilometers)
November 29th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
Yeah great video! But can’t understand anything. I think it is Korean.
November 29th, 2007 at 11:12 pm
I admit, this is the orange Borrego!:-)
November 30th, 2007 at 3:53 am
himi, when you said tiny, you weren’t kidding
November 30th, 2007 at 5:57 am
tiny?
November 30th, 2007 at 6:26 am
hi. Just got the wheels mag. The Mohave test drive was there. They havent told much about it. they said the test car’s tiptronic trans is a bit sluggish, the V6 engine was powerful with250 bhp and 550Nm of torqe. its almost 5 m long and gets body on frame structure which we already know about. they say the V8 will be offered only in US (not confirmed). UAE will be getting V6 and and will go on sale by mid-2008. Borrego will make a world debut at detroit autoshow in jan.
in an interview with Peter, Peter said that BORREGO WILL COMPLETE THEIR SUV LINE UP.
November 30th, 2007 at 8:29 am
WHEELS hasnt updated e latest issue. so the mohave test drive will not be available now on the site. they usually update it between sundays and tuesdays.
November 30th, 2007 at 9:31 am
Thanks Boris for your information. What was the interview with Schreyer about?Only about Mohave or something else?
November 30th, 2007 at 9:36 am
About Mohave only. he also mentioned that the price will be low. I am expecting a price around the price of a toyota Land Cruiser or something less.
November 30th, 2007 at 11:26 am
Himi I’ll send you the test drive of Mohave from the wheels mag soon. and also the so called “INTERVIEW” with Peter S.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
which I never remembered to send… anyway, too late now