Kia America posts highest ever Annual Gross sales in Firm Historical past

Units All-Time Annual Gross sales File for Third Consecutive 12 months

• 852,155 complete models in 2025 marks Kia’s best-ever annual gross sales, rising 7-percent over earlier report set in 2024
• Retail gross sales by Kia sellers units new report – rising 5-percent over earlier excessive in 2024 – marking eight consecutive years of progress
• Carnival, Sportage, Telluride, and K4 every publish best-ever annual gross sales
• Gross sales of all electrified fashions and SUVs publish report breaking annual totals

Kia America posted complete gross sales of 852,155 models in 2025, surpassing the 800,000 mark for the primary time in firm historical past and representing a 7 p.c enhance over 2024. That is the third consecutive yr Kia has set a brand new all-time annual gross sales report. As well as, retail gross sales by Kia sellers have grown for eight consecutive years, rising 5 p.c year-over-year and reaching an all-time excessive for the sixth consecutive yr. This marks the model’s highest-ever U.S. market share, underscoring continued client demand for Kia’s various mannequin lineup.

4 Kia fashions – Carnival (+44 p.c); Sportage (+13 p.c); Telluride (+7 p.c); and K4 (+1 p.c) – posted best-ever annual gross sales totals, with the Sportage SUV delivering the all-time finest annual efficiency by a Kia mannequin. Gross sales of Kia’s electrified fashions (+24 p.c) and SUVs (+5 p.c) set new annual gross sales information with gross sales of Kia sedans rising (+13 p.c) year-over-year, illustrating the continued recognition of the model’s world-class mannequin lineup.

“Our third consecutive all-time annual gross sales report, coupled with our highest-ever U.S. market share, are clear indicators of the power of the Kia model and the competitiveness of our fashions,” stated Sean Yoon, president and CEO, Kia North America and Kia America. “And with the second-generation Telluride and the extremely anticipated K4 hatchback arriving in showrooms within the first quarter, and extra new merchandise on the way in which, we anticipate this constructive momentum to proceed into the New 12 months and past.”

Along with the month-to-month gross sales efficiency, Kia America additionally made extra bulletins, together with:

• The upcoming 2027 Kia Telluride was named amongst Newsweek Journal’s 2026 Most Anticipated New Automobiles in U.S. market. The annual listing highlights autos that Newsweek’s Autos editorial crew expects will generate sturdy curiosity primarily based on native market situations and the roster of recent fashions coming to market.
• The 2026 Kia Sorento was awarded the Insurance coverage Institute for Freeway Security’s (IIHS) highest security score, the 2025 TOP SAFETY PICK+ (TSP+) designation, for fashions constructed after September 2025. This award brings the variety of Kia autos incomes a TSP+ recognition in 2025 to 5, every of which was examined beneath the IIHS’s most rigorous testing protocols to this point. The Kia fashions which have earned a 2025 IIHS TSP+ score are:  
  • 2026 Sorento (fashions constructed after September 2025)
  • 2026 Sportage (fashions constructed after Could 2025)
  • 2025 K4 (fashions constructed after January 2025)
  • 2025 EV9
  • 2025 Telluride

 
Be aware: 2024 Complete gross sales consists of 1,917 Rio fashions not proven in separate rows.