Kia Motors Corporation announced today its global sales figures (export sales, domestic sales and sales from overseas plants) for passenger cars, recreational vehicles (RVs) and commercial vehicles for January 2013, recording a total of 211,088 units sold. This figure represents a year-on-year increase of 13.9%.

In January, Kia posted a strong double digit year-on-year sales increase in China of 50.3% (57,575 units sold) along with positive gains in all of its other major sales regions – 6.3% in Europe* (38,059 units sold), 6.0%% in Korea (36,250 units sold), 4.1% in General Markets* (39,229 units sold) and 1.7% in North America (39,975 units sold). It was the highest total global January sales ever for Kia.