Kia Soul sales increase 62 percent to 5.223 units in April, while Kia Motors America posts 17 percent higher overall sales.
Kia Motors America today posted April 2010 sales of 30.036 units, an increase of 17.3 percent over the same period last year. According to the automaker’s monthly report, Kia’s year-to-date sales are up almost 13 percent compared to 2009. In the first four months of fiscal year, Kia sold 106.732 new vehicles in the US market.
Kia sales last month were led by US-built Sorento crossover with sales of 8.486 units. Kia Forte compact car, which recently received a “Top Safety Pick” award from Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, posted sales of 5.807 units, while funky Soul crossover recorded monthly sales of 5.223 units.
The good old Rio sub-compact car posted strong sales of 3.020 units, while the outgoing Kia Optima, which will soon be replaced by the 2011 Optima sedan recorded sales of 2.912 units last month.
Byung Mo Ahn, group president and CEO of KMA and Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia said that Kia’s exceptional sales results reflect how US consumers are noticing the brand’s quality products with unparalleled design.
With three all-new vehicles on the horizon this year, including the 2011 Sportage, Kia Forte five-door and Optima sedan, Kia’s confident to continue its sales momentum through the rest o the year.
Kia sales table:
Kia Canada sales
Kia Canada reported sales of 5.057 units, an increase of 18.3% versus April of last year and 25.5% YTD. With this accomplishment Kia Canada surpassed its previous April year-to-date sales records. This was the first time in the company’s eleven year history that Kia has achieved over 5.000 units in April. April also marked the sixteenth month of consecutive sales growth for the company.
April was also the best sales month ever for the Forte and the all-new and completely redesigned Sorento at 1.286 and 972 units respectively.
Hyundai Motor America sales
How about the sales of Hyundai Motor America? Kia’s parent company announced it has sold 30 percent more cars in the US market than it did a year earlier. Hyundai Motor America sold 44,024 new vehicles last month, while its total sales through the first four months of the fiscal year hit an all-time record – 155,532 units sold by the end of April.
Hyundai’s best-selling vehicle last month was the 2011 Sonata sedan, which experienced a 57 percent gain in sales, compared to a year ago. Sales of new Sonata have also gone through the roof. For the second-straight month, Hyundai delivered more than 18.000 units of new Sonata to US customers.
May 4th, 2010 at 12:22 pm
What forum. Lol
May 4th, 2010 at 7:27 pm
Anybody has any info about what is happening to the Forum?
There must be someone in charge of this site…
Could there be a formal blog post to explain the status of the forum?
May 4th, 2010 at 7:54 pm
Are you talking about “KiaForteForum dot com/”? I was just on it moments ago and it’s working quite well.
May 4th, 2010 at 10:12 pm
Did y’all hear? Toyota sales were a slump last month. Isn’t that great? Don’t tell me Toyota fans are no longer wanting to be part of the boring every .05 seeing in a car crowd. Also did anyone pay attention to how Toyota is sort of copying Kia’s signature grille. Like Kia, Toyota has that very simiular grille. The top part is the goofy Toyota logo and the bottom part is the opposite of Kia’s bottom signature grille. Now the Camry came out in 2007 and it does not have that. However, the Kee was revealed in 2008 therefore, Toyota copied because the corolla came after the Kee and that was in 2009 as well as the facelifted Camry.
May 4th, 2010 at 10:17 pm
Kia’s signature grille looks a million times better anyway. At least one can notice the Kia grille from a long distance. However when looking at an every .05 of second seeing Camry on the road you have to get up really close to notice it. And it’s not all that. I’m sure glad Ford gave the new Edge a facelift for Ford’s sake (Toyota copied just look at the Toyota Venza’s headlights). Also, I saw the Opel that is really the Chevy Volt. My does it look like the Forte. You know what’s funny? When the Forte was once revaled, many commets came out that it looks like the every .05 of second seeing Civic on the road. But how come no one said anything about the Opel? Are they deaf?
May 4th, 2010 at 11:48 pm
By the way, jtz, a half second is .5 – just wanted to let you know, don’t wear out your zero key. You will need it when you have a “Who would have known” speech when Kia sells their 100,000,000th vehicle.
May 5th, 2010 at 4:50 pm
Yeah will I meant five hundrenths of a second. I could put up a half a second why not? BTW, Kia came up with a solution that could increase Forte Sales other than just with improving the Forte’s safety as well as comfort by adding soft touches to the doors. I just saw the Kia Forte Hybrid in production form. That son of a gun looks just like the Forte LPI. I’m so glad it’s not a cloned toyota hybrid like what Mazda is doing by 2012 (that’s easy to do). I hope its more fuel efficent than the three hybrid triplets from Japan. Even if it’s not, it looks wayyy better than that Civic hybrid. I hope its more fuel efficent than that ugly every .5 (or even smaller .05) seeing on the road ugly Honda Civc.
May 5th, 2010 at 5:16 pm
From looking at the 1994 Kia sephia, who would have known that generations later it would be a major threat to the every .05 of a second seeing on the road Corolla and Civic? Who would have known that one day Kia’s line up would be more stylish than Toyota’s? Who would have known that one day Kia would be more safe (if not why is it that the Forte has a five star crash rating in all four categories and not the every .5 (or should I say .05 ) of a seconds seeing boring Corolla?)).
May 5th, 2010 at 10:14 pm
Nissan Sold 2146 ugly cubes in April. The Sorento outsold the Rouge and Murano in April as well.
May 6th, 2010 at 12:10 pm
Its easy to outsell the Nissans, not so to outsell Toyota and Honda. They know we are coming.