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Kia sales increases 24 percent in August 2009. Kia Forte (Cerato) leads Sportage and Rio in second and third spot. Kia reported its global sales figures for passenger cars, recreational vehicles (RVs), and commercial vehicles for August 2009, recording a total of 139,656 units sold. This figure represents a year-on-year increase of 24.1%.To date in [...] Lees meer...

New Kia Venga spy shots surface to the web before car’s official unveiling next week. With facelifted cee’d hatchback, all-new Venga and Sorento crossover scheduled for an official unveiling, visitors of Kia’s Frankfurt auto show stand will have plenty to see. The all-new Venga, which is scheduled to go on sale across Europe early in [...] Lees meer...

Kia Forte Koup price starts at $16,595. Already on sale at your local Kia dealership!Kia Motors America has released information about pricing details on its striking Kia Forte Koup, which apparently started hitting Kia dealerships a few days ago. Pricing for the two-door Forte Koup, which is available in two trims including, EX and SX, [...] Lees meer...

By Kim, Wan SeungAssistant ManagerR&D Strategy team The battery in a hybrid vehicle provides energy to the electric motor, which serves as a secondary power source. Battery and electric motor have different voltages, so a device that converts voltage is necessary. That device is the inverter. The inverter converts direct current (DC) from a battery [...] Lees meer...

Record-high sales results proove that Kia automobiles are the hottest products on the North American car market at the moment! Kia Motors America (KMA) today announced all-time record monthly sales of 40,198 in August, up 37 percent over July and 60.4 percent year over year from August 2008. Offering an array of standard technology features, [...] Lees meer...

Congratulations for September 2009 Soul Of The Month win go to a 17-year old Peter, whose Kia Soul crossover has received the largest number of votes from his “Soul mates”. Here is his honorable interview, where he reveals some details about his Soul, ownership experience so far and future plans regarding tuning and modifying. [...] Lees meer...

Kia Sorento hybrid to highlight Kia’s eco-friendly technology and its commitment to lowering emissions and improving the fuel economy of its automobiles.Kia has revealed it will display a wide array of new production models and near production concept cars at this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show. Alongside new Venga B-segment MPV, Kia will also unveil revised [...] Lees meer...

By Hyoung-Keun (hank) LeePresidentKia Motors CorporationCongratulations Kia BUZZ on your second birthday! It feels like just yesterday that we celebrated its launch on September 3, 2007.Kia BUZZ debuted as the first blog introduced by a Korean company targeting a global audience. It was hailed as a model example of corporate communication and attracted attention [...] Lees meer...

BY Wan Seung, KimAssistant ManagerR&D Strategy team The electric motor is a core element that provides secondary driving power to the engine while accelerating and acts as the generator which charges the lithium ion battery with electric energy created when the vehicle decelerates. The soft-type hybrid motor of the Forte LPi Hybrid was designed by [...] Lees meer...

Kia to celebrate world premiere of Venga mini-MPV and European premieres of the cee’d facelift, Sorento crossover and Forte LPi hybrid in Frankfurt!Kia today announced it will showcase several production-ready vehicles at this year’s Frankfurt Auto Show designed and built for Europe, as well as demonstrate its “green” credentials with the introduction of Eco-Dynamics sub-brand [...] Lees meer...

Kia Soul Forums website breaks two-thousand members in less than nine months and keeps rising fast! This past Wednesday was a big milestone for the Kia Soul Owners Club website! Our stats revealed that we have gone past the 2.000 members - Soul owners mark. Today, five days after, we already have 2.054 members and [...] Lees meer...

By Brandon Lee, Innocean World Wide (Sports Marketing Team)Africa

Wheelchair accessible vehicles are remodeled cars, vans or SUVs that enable disabled people to travel in them while remaining seated in their wheelchair either as a driver or passenger. Such vehicles are usually based on standard car models and include additional features such as a lift or a built-in ramp, wheelchair tie-downs and seat belts [...] Lees meer...

The 2010 Kia Venga spied completely undisguised. Kia plans to officially unveil Venga at Frankfurt Motor Show next month. One week after Kia released first official photos of its upcoming mini-MPV called the Venga, we bring you the very first live shots of a completely undisguised car that has been spotted in the wild, somewhere [...] Lees meer...

The 2010 Kia Sorento becomes the third Kia vehicle to receive a 5 star safety rating at EuroNCAP crash tests!* The all-new Kia Sorento crossover has been awarded a 5-Star safety rating (the maximum score) in the latest Euro NCAP crash test results published today. The Sorento’s safety ratings*

First spy shots of the 2011 Kia Optima appear on the web. Stunning exterior design for Kia’s next generation mid-size sedan.If you like spy shot reports and new Kia cars, then you definately don’t want to miss this post. Our spy report today is related to next generation mid-size Kia sedan, known as Optima in [...] Lees meer...

This is the very first image of the interior lay-out of the all-new Kia VG. It looks classy and modern. In addition to the interior image, we bring you two exterior spy shots of a heavily disguised VG sedan. Enjoy the pics!Kia VG gallery:**** **** Lees meer...

BY Wan Seung, KimAssistant ManagerR&D Strategy team Independent development – creating something out of nothing**The debut of the Forte LPi Hybrid demonstrated Kia

The 2010 Kia Soul earns Top Safety Pick Award from Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The 2010 Kia Soul has earned “Top Safety Pick” award from highly coveted North American Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Ratings from the Institute are based on crash test results from frontal, side and rear impacts. To earn the “Top Safety [...] Lees meer...

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By Jonathan Fletcher, Public Relations ManagerKia Motors AustraliaKia Motors Australia, today, handed over a fleet of Kia Sorento SUVs to Tennis Australia

Kia announces that it will build the all-new Kia Sorento at its US manufacturing plant, located in Georgia.Introduced in 2002, the original Kia Sorento midsize SUV marked a huge step forward for Kia Motors, challenging established brands and beginning the process of changing perceptions of Kia Motors as solely a maker of small cars.That process [...] Lees meer...

Kia Venga images released ahead of its official Frankfurt Auto Show unveiling.Kia has released the very first official images and details about its long-awaited B-segment mini-MPV, which will be officially unveiled at the upcoming Frankfurt auto event in September. In addition, Kia also announced its all-new model will feature a Venga nomenclature.When Kia Venga [...] Lees meer...

By Michael ChooDeputy General Manager, Overseas Communication TeamKia Motors today released the very first official images of the all-new Venga B-segment MPV for Europe, which will make its world premiere next month at the Frankfurt Motor Show.Please click on the thumbnails below to download high resolution images. Lees meer...

By Brandon Lee, Innocean World Wide (Sports Marketing Team)Kia Motors has been one of the six EUROTOP Partners that support UEFA for the successful staging of European football tournaments and other European National Tournaments. After UEFA EURO 2008 and Futsal Championship in 2007, Kia, once again, participated in the UEFA Under-21 Championship Sweden 2009 from [...] Lees meer...