OREANDA-NEWS. For the first nine months of 2016 at the plant in St. Petersburg there were produced 67,425 KIA Rio cars for the markets of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus. Sales of the model in our country during the reporting period were 62,279 units (-13.1%). At the same time, in September, as in August, KIA Rio topped the list of Russia's most popular models of all brands, informed the press service of KIA Motors Rus.

As previously reported "AUTOSTAT", St. Petersburg plant Hyundai Motor in January-September of 2016 has produced 151,100 vehicles, which is less by 8.3% than a year ago. As a result, the company plans to produce 200 thousand cars. In August the plant launched the production of a new compact crossover Hyundai Creta, at the beginning of 2017 it will begin the production of Hyundai Solaris sedan of new generation.