OREANDA-NEWS The plant in St. Petersburg, where it is produced sedans and hatchbacks KIA Rio by the method of full cycle with a high level of localization (46%), in 2016 it was produced 96 thousand cars of this model. The production site in St. Petersburg, which is working in three shifts, differs by a high level of automation level that ensures a high quality and reliability of KIA Rio. At the final stage, after the assembly line leaving, every KIA Rio car is thoroughly tested for its product quality, the press service of KIA Motors Rus.

In addition, the plant "Autotor" in Kaliningrad in 2016 produced more than 56 thousand KIA cars. As mentioned, the production of KIA cars for the Russian market (except Picanto model) is carried out in Russia. The number of cars, manufactured in the country, included all proposed new items in 2016.

As previously reported "AUTOSTAT", by the results of 2016 Russian dealers of KIA sold 149,567 vehicles - less 9% than a year earlier. As a result, KIA has maintained the leader among foreign cars - as well as in 2014 and 2015. The market share of the brand was 10.5% in the last year, which is more by 0.3% than in 2015, and more by 2.6% compared to 2014.

The bestseller of KIA in the Russian market is Rio - 87 662 of these cars were sold in 2016 (-9.7%). Also the top-three of most popular models included KIA Sportage crossover (19003 units, -8.4%), the new generation of which entered the Russian market in April of the last year, and the cee'd (15081 units, -21.7%). Several models of KIA by the results of 2016 entered the top-three of the most popular in their market segments. These results were demonstrated by Picanto, Rio, cee'd, Sportage and Optima. For business sedan KIA Optima, the fourth generation of which is represented in Russia since March 2016, in the last year was a record year of sales in the history of the model in Russia. The volume reached 6286 vehicles (+ 103%), among which 5812 units were the new generation of sedans. The positive dynamics in 2016 was also demonstrated by crossovers and SUVs KIA Sorento Prime (3386 units, + 316%), KIA Mohave (573 units, + 86%) and KIA Soul (7334 units, + 22%).