Car Sales By Model And Nation Kia : 2014

I'm sure it's nice to lean on, but why not use the seats?

Kia grew 11% which was strong performance. No models dropped and only one added, which is yet to have much impact anyway. That one new model is the K4, a China specific model. You could then expect a flat sales year. Not so. Most models had an increase and many of them are selling well. An obvious model to retire would be the Mohave, which customers are steadily deserting (I just had to say that).

A plant is being built in Mexico, which will lift things again. It will have a 300,000 capacity, opening in 2016. A range of small cars are expected to be assembled there. Kia have done well to get to this size, but the challenge is the next step up.

10	11	12	13	14	Model	2014	%	Lyr
4	4	1	1	1	Pride/Rio	509,806	17.4%	7%
					-Korea	246,503		4%
					-China	158,606		7%
					-Russia (Hy)	104,697		14%
1	1	3	3	2	Forte/K3	499,124	17.0%	13%
					-China	259,300		31%
					-Korea	239,824		-1%
3	2	2	2	3	Sportage	473,158	16.1%	5%
					-Slovakia	178,823		11%
					-Korea	157,390		-1%
					-China	136,945		3%
7	6	4	4	4	Optima/K5	337,335	11.5%	3%
					-USA	142,561		6%
					-Korea	139,299		2%
					-China	55,475		-3%
5	5	6	6	5	Picanto/Morning	255,869	8.7%	-1%
					-Korea	255,869
2	3	5	5	6	Sorento	235,906	8.1%	2%
					-Korea	120,787		19%
					-USA	115,119		-11%
6	7	7	7	7	Soul	230,853	7.9%	40%
					-Korea	221,844		44%
					-China	9,009		-10%
8	8	8	8	8	Cee'd	114,679	3.9%	-7%
					-Slovakia
9	9	9	10	9	Carnival	74,301	2.5%	52%
					-Korea
12	10	12	9	10	Carens	48,311	1.6%	-22%
					-Korea
10	12	13	11	11	Opirus/K7	39,305	1.3%	-11%
					-Korea
-	14	10	13	12	Ray	30,082	1.0%	10%
					-Korea
11	11	11	12	13	Venga	29,998	1.0%	1%
					-Slovakia
-	-	-	-	14	K4	26,701	0.9%
					-China
13	13	14	14	15	Mohave	15,532	0.5%	-2%
					-Korea
-	-	15	15	16	K9	9,043	0.3%	22%
					-Korea
					Total Sales	2,930,003		11%

Data source: Hyundai.