Comments on: Together with Hyundai, Kia takes 80% of South Korean car market

By: joe

joe — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:00:07 +0000

This excludes any other manufacturors, sure they have 80% share of Koream OEMs but that doesn’t mean 8/10 poeple baught one of their cars in South Korea

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:53:24 +0000

Well Hyundai is cranking out boring models (i20 and new Sonata for example) while Kia cranks out exciting models (Forte (who would buy i20 over a hot car like Forte), and Optima(still much more appealing than new Sonata))

By: BJD(Boris)

BJD(Boris) — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:11:21 +0000

seems they had the forte in mind when they set that target…

By: himi

himi — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:01:20 +0000

A few months ago, I read a report about Kia wanting to acquire 30percent market share in South Korea. At that time, the company hold about 23% percent, and it was kind of har for me to believe this can happen, especially because other competitive automakers have unveiled many new cars.
The article said Kia’s officials were very confident and stated this can be done with some new models (Soul, Forte) and look at this report now, only three or four months later, the work has been done.

By: BJD(Boris)

BJD(Boris) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:41:36 +0000

well, thats nice…