Best half year ever
Kia has the wind in its sails. That’s quite an understatement. Kia has never had such a good six months as the first of this year. It sold almost 1.6 million cars worldwide.
Kia sold 1,575,920 cars worldwide in the first six months of this year. That was 11 percent more than in the same period last year. The first half of 2023 will go down in the books at Kia as its best half year ever.
In its home country of South Korea, Kia sold 292,103 new cars. That was almost 12 percent more than in the first six months of last year. The majority of Kia sales found an owner outside the borders of the home country. This concerns a total of 1,281,067 cars, almost 11 percent more than in the first half of last year. In Europe, Kia sold a total of 318,753 cars in the first half of 2023. That is also a record. In the first half of 2022 – the previous record six months – 280,993 new cars were sold in Europe. In the Netherlands, Kia registered 16,805 new cars in the first half of this year. That was 17.3 percent more than in the same period last year.
The Kia Sportage is Kia’s most popular model worldwide. 260,485 were sold. Second place is the Seltos delivered outside Europe (157,188 units), followed by the Sorento in third place (115,644 units). In the Netherlands, the Kia Picanto was Kia’s top seller with more than 5,200 registrations, followed by the Niro and the Sportage.
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– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl