Our inventory of used KIA autos:
| KIA Rio |
KIA Spectra |
KIA Optima |
KIA Amanti |
| KIA Sportage |
KIA Sedona |
KIA Sorento |
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| RIO |
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| SPECTRA |
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| OPTIMA |
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| AMANTI |
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| SPORTAGE |
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| SEDONA |
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| SORENTO |
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About KIA:
Kia Motors is South Korea's 2nd largest automobile
manufacturer with headquarters in Yangjae-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul, South Korea.
Its CEO is Chung Eui-sun. The American arm is Kia Motors America. On October 20,
2006, Kia Motors America formally hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for its first
US assembly plant in West Point, Georgia, at an initial cost of over $1 billion.
Since 2005, Kia has started to focus on the European market and is currently the
UK's fastest growing car company and had various other successes in the European
market.
According to Kia Motors, the name "Kia" derives from the
Hanja ki meaning arise or come up out of or rising up and the a stands
for Asia. So Kia is roughly translated as arise or come up out of Asia or
Rising out of Asia.
South Korea's oldest car company, Kia was founded in 1944 as manufacturer of
steel tubing and bicycles. In 1952, Kia changed its name from Kyungsung
Precision Industry,[3] and later built motorcycles, trucks and cars. Starting in
1986, in partnership with Ford, Kia produced several Mazda derived vehicles for
both domestic sales in Korea and exports into other countries. These models
include the Pride (based on the Mazda 121) and Avella, which were sold in North
America and Australasia as the Ford Festiva and Ford Aspire.
In 1992, Kia Motors America was incorporated in the United States. The first Kia-branded
vehicles in the United States were sold from four dealerships in Portland,
Oregon in February 1994. Since then, Kia expanded methodically one region at a
time. Dealers in 1994 sold the Sephia, and a few years later the United States
line expanded with the addition of the Sportage.
However, Kia's bankruptcy in 1997, part of the Asian financial crisis, resulted
in the company being acquired in 1998 by South Korean rival Hyundai Motor
Company, outbidding Ford Motor Company which had owned an interest in Kia Motors
since 1986.
About KIA cars: Kia Motors Group
Avella (was rebadged as the Ford Aspire in North America)
Brisa (based on the Mazda Familia)
Capital (based on the Mazda Capella)
Concord (based on the Mazda Capella)
Elan/Vigato/Kia Roadster (based on the Lotus Elan)
Enterprise (based on the Mazda Sentia)
Potentia (based on the Mazda Luce)
Sephia/Mentor
Pride (based on the Ford Festiva/Mazda 121)
Subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Group
Clarus/Credos
Morning/Picanto
Opirus/Amanti
Optima/Optima-Regal/Magentis
Optima/Magentis/Lotze
Rio/Pride
Rio (Cinco/RX-V)
Rio SF/Rio
Sephia/Mentor(New)
Sephia/Spectra/Shuma
Spectra
Spectra/Cerato
Visto (based on the Hyundai Atos/Santro)
cee'd (which will debut at Mondial de l'Automobile 2006)
SUV/van
Kia Motors Group
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