(July 7, 2014) Kia Motors announced today its global sales figures — export sales, domestic sales and sales from overseas plants — for passenger cars, recreational vehicles and commercial vehicles for the first six months of 2014, recording 1,442,851 units sold, a 4.3% increase over the same period of 2013.

Cumulatively through the first six months of 2014, China, North America, General Markets and Europe have experienced gains of 12% (326,108 units sold), 6.5% (334,357 units sold), 2.9% (263,239 units sold) and 1.3% (300,383 units sold), respectively.

Kia's bestselling model in overseas markets for the first six months of 2014 was the B-segment Rio (known as 'K2' in China) with 247,388 units sold.

The C-segment Cerato (known as 'Forte' or 'K3' in some markets) was the second bestseller with 219,484 units delivered, while the Sportage compact CUV, Optima D-segment sedan and Soul urban crossover followed with 209,045, 133,370 and 97,114 units sold, respectively.