Kia Motors’ global sales last month surged 53.2% to 152,826 units.

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By region, the Hyundai Motor affiliate posted year on year increases in China, Korea, Europe, general markets and North America.


In the first 11 months of 2009, global sales rose 17% to 1,489,204 units. China saw the highest gain with 221,722 units sold, up 65.2%.


Korea, general markets, and North America booked rises of 26.8% (366,229 units), 14.7% (275,105) and 9.5% (322,488), respectively. 


To date in 2009, Kia’s best selling model in overseas markets has been the C-segment Cerato (aka Spectra or Forte) with 269,864 units sold.


Kia Motors (UK) MD Michael Cole said: “Kia will achieve record sales figures in the UK this year. We’ve also grown our share of the non-scrappage retail market by nearly 0.5% over last year.”

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