Kia America Posts Eighth Consecutive Month of Yr-Over-Yr Gross sales Development

• 79,007 items bought in Could, a 5-percent enhance in comparison with earlier 12 months
• Finest-ever Could performances for Telluride, Sportage, Carnival, and K4
• 2026 EV9 Dusk Version and EV9 GT-Line with two-tone roof now obtainable in showrooms  

Kia America delivered 79,007 complete items in Could – up 5-percent over the identical interval final 12 months – and prolonged the fast-growing model’s streak of consecutive months of year-over-year gross sales progress to eight. Retail gross sales at Kia dealerships elevated by 8-percent over Could 2024 and are up 15-percent year-to-date, reinforcing the corporate’s steady progress trajectory within the market.

The Carnival MPV, which launched a brand new hybrid mannequin final 12 months, noticed a big gross sales enhance of 68-percent year-over-year. Moreover, common SUV fashions comparable to Telluride (+12-percent) and Sportage (+10-percent), together with the sporty K4 sedan (+4-percent), all achieved their highest-ever Could gross sales.

“Because the second half of the 12 months approaches, Kia’s market competitiveness continues to strengthen with eight consecutive months of gross sales progress. Kia’s various powertrain lineup, together with ICE, hybrids, and EVs, coupled with the sturdy and sustained buyer curiosity within the model’s Telluride, Sportage, Carnival MPV, and K4 fashions have been a number of the key drivers of the corporate’s continued gross sales progress,” mentioned Eric Watson, vp, gross sales operations, Kia America. “And we anticipate this progress trajectory will proceed with the 2026 EV9 Dusk Version and EV9 GT-Line with two-tone roof now obtainable in showrooms nationwide. With new design parts – together with a brand new two-tone roof, in addition to enhancements in driving vary and efficiency – the upgraded EV9 Dusk Version and the EV9 GT-Line with two-tone roof are set to higher meet the expectations of shoppers on the lookout for a three-row, all-electric SUV.”

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

• Kia America introduced by its “Speed up the Good” Seller Match program, the corporate and its nationwide community of shops raised a complete of $4.6 million for non-profit organizations in 2024, together with donations totaling greater than $1.5 million every to  St. Jude Kids’s Analysis Hospital^® and No Child Hungry®. Now in its fourth 12 months, the initiative continues to supply important help for all kinds of causes throughout the USA.

• The 2025 Kia Sportage Hybrid has been acknowledged in Vehicles.com’s checklist of Finest Hybrids for the Cash, taking the win within the Compact SUV class. This newest accolade marks the second consecutive 12 months the Sportage Hybrid has been acknowledged.

• The Kia K4 sedan has been named a 2025 Wards 10 Finest Interiors & UX award winner. The annual Wards 10 Finest Interiors & UX competitors evaluates new or closely redesigned automobile interiors and user-experience know-how, with scoring primarily based on a wide range of metrics together with design and aesthetics, consolation, supplies, fit-and-finish, connectivity and infotainment, shows and controls, in addition to superior driver help techniques and worth. For the 2025 awards, 34 automobiles have been evaluated.

* Choose trims of the 2025 all-electric EV6 and EV9 all-electric three-row SUV, Sportage (excludes HEV and PHEV fashions), Sorento (excludes HEV and PHEV fashions), and Telluride are assembled in the USA from U.S. and globally sourced elements.