No successor for now
The Kia Rio will no longer be available after this year. Kia Netherlands confirms this AutoWeek. The B-segmenter is not expected to have a direct successor, so that the Stonic can run the segment on its own from 2024 on behalf of Kia. The Rio can now still be ordered, but the choice will continue to shrink as 2023 passes.
The Kia Rio can no longer be ordered throughout Europe after this year and will not receive a direct successor. Kia is therefore also participating in the exit from the traditional B segment, although the brand will continue to feed the high-legged Stonic for the time being. That model sells better than the Rio, for which interest has declined in recent years. In 2022, Kia sold 550 Rios, in 2021 545. The Stonic accounted for 2,484 and 3,116 sales in those years respectively. Comparable hatchbacks from other brands are also significantly more popular than the Rio, so Kia draws its conclusions. His crossover remains, the hatchback does not.
After 2023 there will be no more new Rios for sale and the supply will already decrease before the year is over. It is expected that Kia will reduce the size of the supply of Rios to Europe later this year, so that there will probably be an increasingly limited amount of color-version combinations further towards the turn of the year. If you want a new Rio and you want to have something to choose from, then you have to be quick. The importer hopes to be able to offer a B-segment hatchback again when the time is right for Kia’s smaller EVs. In the A-segment, the brand will continue to supply a hatchback in the form of the Picanto for the time being, which is still doing very well in the Netherlands.
With the disappearance of the Kia Rio, four generations of the unpretentious B-segmenter come to an end. Spread over the four generations, Kia managed to sell more than 50,000 copies of the Rio in the Netherlands.
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