Kia Motors Corporation announced today its June 2016 global sales figures (export sales, domestic sales and sales from overseas plants) for passenger cars, recreational vehicles (RVs) and commercial vehicles, recording a total of 268,886 units sold. This figure represents an 11.4% year-on-year increase compared to the same month of 2015.
In June, Kia posted year-on-year sales increases in China (17.4% growth with 45,942 units sold) the domestic Korea market (16.7% growth with 52,506 units sold), North America (15.4% growth with 70,112 units sold), Western Europe (13.9% growth with 41,412 units sold) and general markets* (0.4% growth with 43,713 units sold).
Cumulatively through the first half of 2016, Kia achieved its best-ever first half global sales of 1,470,822 units for a year-on-year increase of 2.3%. Western Europe (307,742 units sold), Korea (276,750 units sold) and North America (364,645 units sold) have seen a 14.8%, 14.1% and 5.2% rise in sales, respectively.
Kia’s bestselling model in overseas markets during June 2016 was the Sportage compact CUV with 50,076 units sold. The B-segment Rio (known as ‘K2’ in China) was the second best seller with 40,647 units sold, while the C-segment Cerato (Known as ‘Forte’ or ‘K3’ in some markets), Soul urban crossover and Sorento midsized CUV followed with 31,263, 18,432 and 16,560 units sold, respectively.
