A powerful October of gross sales progress has seen Kia overtake Mitsubishi on the year-to-date gross sales charts, and catapult into third place general with two months to run.
The quickly rising Kia offered 66,580 autos right here to the tip of October, up 14.5 per cent. That’s behind second-placed Mazda (79,669) and forward of Mitsubishi (66,505), Kia’s majority shareholder Hyundai (63,392), and Ford (53,298).
Ten years in the past, Kia’s market share in Australia was 2.6 per cent, whereas now it sits at 7.4 per cent – virtually tripling its slice of the pie within the meantime.
The Korean model sits second general in passenger automotive gross sales (28,492 items YTD) trailing solely Toyota (31,278). It’s additionally fifth within the SUV market with 38,088 gross sales, behind Toyota, Mazda, Mitsubishi and Hyundai.
Impressively sufficient Kia is the one prime six model with none mild business autos in its vary – that means it solely competes in 70 per cent of the entire market. If it does discover a solution to get its palms on a ute like this one, be careful Mazda…
Kia’s top-seller this 12 months has been the brand new Sportage medium SUV (15,497 items), forward of the Cerato small automotive (11,558). Subsequent are the Seltos (7803) and Stonic (7582) compact SUVs.
Kia additionally sits on the prime of a number of mannequin segments together with Micro Vehicles, the place its Picanto has a staggering 77.5 per cent phase share. Those that purchase Picantos, usually P-platers, are nice prospects as a result of you possibly can construct model loyalty with them over time.
Kia additionally sits atop the people-mover market with the dominant Carnival, which has 72.9 per cent phase share as competitors dries up. At a lower-volume stage the Kia Stinger (2054) dominates the Massive Automobile < $70k phase with 76.4 per cent share.
On a aspect observe, take a look at our current story outlining the progress Kia has made catching as much as, and overtaking, Hyundai’s gross sales in Australia.
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