Year-to-date sales totaled 128,104, also a 7.5-percent increase over the same period last year. Sales for the month were led by the Kia Spectra at 8,512 units, showing its best month of the year.

The Sportage SUV and Rio compact sedan also had their best months of the year in May with 4,678 units and 3,479 units sold respectively. The newest model to the Kia lineup, the Rondo crossover, followed suit with its best month of the year at 1,754 units.

"Once again our increasing sales, led by our award-winning pillar models, Spectra and Sportage, have yielded another best month ever" said Len Hunt, executive vice president and COO of KMA. "By staying true to our core promise of producing value-, safety- and quality-minded vehicles, and bringing new, design-oriented product to market in the near future, we are on pace for another consecutive record sales year."



Press release via Kia