Kia America Stories All-Time Finest Annual Gross sales

• Complete U.S. quantity of 782,451 automobiles shatters Kia’s earlier yearly gross sales report set in 2021 by 12-percent
• Six fashions obtain all-time excessive gross sales, contributing to seven consecutive years of progress in retail gross sales excluding fleet transactions
• SUV and utility lineup report a 16-percent progress in gross sales, accounting for 72-percent of gross sales complete
• Electrified lineup grows 41-percent in gross sales

December gross sales of 60,275 models capped the all time fourth quarter for fast-growing Kia America and wrapped the best annual efficiency in firm historical past. Kia’s 2023 complete of 782,451 models was up 13-percent year-over-year and 12-percent over the earlier report set in 2021. As well as, the model set an all-time report with 725,817 models offered via Kia sellers nationwide.

“Kia is clearly a model on the transfer. Our rugged SUVs and revolutionary EVs are our biggest power, and demand throughout the Kia lineup reached all-time highs in 2023,” mentioned Seungkyu (Sean) Yoon, president and CEO, Kia North America and Kia America. “Groundbreaking automobiles like our new flagship EV9 EV three-row SUV showcase Kia’s distinctive potential to raise expectations and push boundaries, and we intend to speed up our progress trajectory in 2024 with a mix of six all-new and considerably redesigned merchandise scheduled to reach in showrooms.” 

Six Kia fashions set all-time annual gross sales information in 2023, together with: Carnival (+93-percent); Niro (+26-percent); Seltos (+17-percent); Sportage (+12-percent); Telluride (+11-percent); and Forte (+7-percent). Gross sales of Kia’s electrified fashions elevated 41-percent and SUV gross sales elevated 16-percent over the segments’ earlier information. Total, Kia’s rugged and succesful SUVs accounted for 72-percent of 2023’s annual gross sales complete.

Along with the month-to-month gross sales efficiency, Kia America introduced a number of initiatives, together with:

• Orlando’s premier downtown sports activities and leisure vacation spot – and residential of the Nationwide Basketball Affiliation’s Orlando Magic – was renamed the Kia Middle. The partnership contains new indoor and out of doors signage, the set up of EV charging stations, Kia automobile shows and the Kia Terrace, a hospitality lounge for the enjoyment of automotive fans and sports activities and music followers. 

• The all-electric 2024 Kia EV9 named amongst In style Science’s “2023 Better of What’s New” awards. The publication’s editorial group acknowledged the three-row EV9 SUV for its ingenious use of inside supplies, noting “Kia’s new EV9 could also be an impressive-looking electrical automobile, however what’s inside could also be much more essential.” That is the primary 12 months {that a} Kia automobile has been named to In style Science’s annual rankings of the 12 months’s “Biggest Improvements.”
• The all-new 2024 Kia EV9 three-row EV SUV and the rugged-yet-sophisticated 2024 Telluride named to Automobile and Driver’s 2024 10Best Vans and SUVs. In incomes this prestigious award for the fifth consecutive 12 months, the Telluride has develop into a paragon of three-row SUV excellence and one of some automobiles to be named a Automobile and Driver 10Best annually it has been on sale. The Telluride’s ongoing success has paved the way in which for its all-electric counterpart, the EV9, which celebrates this award in its first 12 months on sale.
• The all-new 2024 Kia EV9 and the acclaimed 2024 Telluride named to the 2024 Kelley Blue E-book Finest Purchase Awards record. Whereas the EV9 was acknowledged because the “Finest 3-Row Electrical Automobile” in its first 12 months on sale, the Telluride continued its profitable legacy by marking its fifth consecutive 12 months as a class winner, taking the crown within the “Finest Midsize SUV” phase for 2024.  
• The Kia Telluride named a phase winner by the J.D. Energy 2024 U.S. ALG Residual Worth Awards throughout the “Midsize SUVs with 3-Row Seating” class, based mostly on evaluation of used-vehicle efficiency, model outlook and product competitiveness and marking the third consecutive 12 months Telluride has claimed the coveted accolade — including to the lengthy record of awards Kia’s hot-selling SUV has garnered.
• The 2024 Kia Sportage was awarded the Insurance coverage Institute of Freeway Security (IIHS) 2023 High Security Decide+ (TSP+) ranking.
• Three Kia automobiles included among the many 2024 Client Information Automotive Finest Purchase awards together with the EV6, Telluride and Soul fashions. This marks the tenth consecutive 12 months that Soul was honored within the subcompact crossover class and the second consecutive 12 months the all-electric EV6 was acknowledged within the compact crossover class. Telluride was named a 2024 Finest Purchase within the midsize crossover class after having first appeared on the record in 2021.