Kia Motors Corporation has announced its August 2015 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 214,323 units sold.
In August, Kia posted year-on-year sales increases in the domestic Korean market (15.9 percent growth with 41,740 units sold), North America (5.4percent growth with 65,162 units sold) and Europe (2.1percent growth with 39,158 units sold).
Cumulatively through the first eight months of 2015, Kia’s global sales totalled 1,881,898 units for a -1.5percent year-on-year decrease. Korea (332,524 units sold) and North America (473,912 units sold) have seen an 11.9 percent and 4.2percent rise in sales, respectively, through August 2015.
Kia’s bestselling model in overseas markets during August 2015 was the B-segment Rio (known as ‘K2’ in China) with 33,322 units sold. The Sportage compact CUV was the second best seller with 28,215 units sold, while the Optima D-segment sedan, Soul urban crossover and C-segment Cerato (known as ‘Forte’ or ‘K3’ in some markets) followed with 22,092, 21,642 and 19,800 units sold, respectively.