Monthly 283,660 Unit Sales
Kia Motors announced on Dec. 5 that its November’s global sales, including export sales, domestic sales and sales from overseas plants, of passenger cars and commercial vehicles reached a total of 283,660 units, a 9.1% year-on-year increase from a year ago.
In November, Kia posted year-on-year sales increases in North America (15.7% growth with 58,050 units sold), China (12.8% growth with 80,805 units sold), general markets General markets (9.3% growth with 45,069 units sold), such as Central and South America, the Caribbean, Asia (excluding China and Korea), the Pacific, Middle East and Africa, and Europe (8.2% growth with 50,830 units sold).
Cumulatively through the first 11 months of 2016, Kia’s global sales totaled 2,738,214 units for a year-on-year increase of 3.8%. Western Europe (406,670 units sold), China (584,863 units sold), North America (660,713 units sold) and Korea (485,400 units sold) have seen a 13.3%, 7.0%, 3.9% and 2.4% rise in sales, respectively.
Kia's bestselling model in overseas markets during November 2016 was the C-segment Cerato (Known as ‘Forte’ or ‘K3’ in some markets) with 44,607 units sold. The Sportage compact CUV was the second best seller with 44,308 units sold while the B-segment Rio (known as 'K2' in China), Optima midsized sedan and Soul urban crossover followed with 44,024, 24,934 and 17,056 units sold, respectively.