Global sales of Kia cars soar 23,4 percent in May 2010!
Kia Motors recently revealed that it has sold a total of 175,098 new vehicles across the globe during the month of May 2010. Compared to a year ago, the automaker achieved a year-on-year sales increase of 23.4%.
In May 2010, Kia accomplished positive year-on-year sales increases in all sales regions, which include the general markets (+59.3% or 37,318 units sold), the Chinese market (28.9% or 26,101 units sold), North American market (19.5% or 37,162 units), European market (18.7% or 34,503 units) and, of course, the Korean market (5.0% or 40,014 units). With a recorded 28.9%, the greatest sales increase was in China.
All together, through the first five months of this year, the worldwide sales of KMC increased by an impressive 38.9% year-on-year sales, which means 820,613 units sold. Now that’s a lot of cars. Sales in China made the highest gain at 92.9%, selling 144,314 units to date in 2010.
There were also significant cumulative sales increases in the other regions, all of which showed double-digits. In the general markets, 174,663 (+58.4%) units were sold; in Europe, 159,073 (+30.5%) units were sold; in Korea, 183,758 (+25.4%) units; and in North America, 158,805 (+15.5%) units.
Overseas, Kia Motors was able to sell 32,498 units of the C-Segment Cerato for the month of May alone. This model is clearly the company’s most promising and best selling car. The B-Segment Rio followed with 18,894 units and the Sportage compact SUV came third with 15,914 units sold. The fourth and fifth, respectively, are the Sorento mid-size CUV and the Soul urban crossover with 14,265 units sold and 11,908 units sold. These are Kia’s top five selling models.













