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At the beggining of each new month, we take some time to look back at previous month and check how well each Kia vehicle performed in terms of sales.
As well as looking at the monthly Kia sales figures for each model, we also look at the year-to-date sales figures in U.S., as well as a head to head comparison between the numbers for this and the previous years.
If you’d like to know more details about how many Kia vehicles have been sold in the United States in 2023, continue your read below.
Kia US sales in May 2023
| Model | May 2023 | May 2022 |
| EV6 | 2.237 | 2.088 |
| Rio | 2.216 | 3.210 |
| Soul | 5.971 | 4.116 |
| Forte | 10.023 | 9.211 |
| K5 | 5.502 | 6.014 |
| Stinger | 903 | 448 |
| Cadenza | 0 | 1 |
| K900 | 0 | 0 |
| Sportage | 12.862 | 10.363 |
| Sorento | 7.764 | 6.846 |
| Telluride | 10.005 | 7.398 |
| Carnival | 3.231 | 1.800 |
| Niro | 3.334 | 3.694 |
| Seltos | 7.449 | 2.752 |
| Total | 71.497 | 57.941 |
Kia EV sales in US (2023)
There is one Kia electric vehicle currently on sale in the United States (Soul EV sales have been postponed). Here are the monthly-updated sales figures of the Kia Niro EV in USA.
| Model | EV6 | Niro EV | Soul EV |
| January | 1.110 | / | / |
| February | 1.294 | / | / |
| March | 988 | / | / |
| April | 1.241 | / | / |
| May | 2.237 | / | / |
| June | / | / | / |
| July | / | / | / |
| August | / | / | / |
| September | / | / | / |
| October | / | / | / |
| November | / | / | / |
| December | / | / | / |
| Total | 6.870 | 0 | 0 |
* = to be updated during the month
2023 Kia Motors America monthly sales figures
| Month | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
| January | 44.965 | 42.488 | 51.983 |
| February | 48.062 | 49.182 | 60.859 |
| March | 66.523 | 59.524 | 71.294 |
| April | 70.177 | 59.063 | 68.205 |
| May | 80.298 | 57.941 | 71.497 |
| June | 68.486 | 65.142 | / |
| July | 70.099 | 62.449 | / |
| August | 54.009 | 66.089 | / |
| September | 52.906 | / | / |
| October | 52.067 | / | / |
| November | 45.318 | / | / |
| December | 48.506 | / | / |
| Total | 701.416 | 461.878 | 323.838 |
2023 Kia sales highlights
Kia’s May 2023 sales were driven by the carmaker’s highly attractive line-up of SUVs and crossovers, with sales increasing as much as 35% year-over-year.
Furthermore, the SUV and crossover vehicles accounted for 74-percent of Kia’s total volume last month.
The Sportage compact SUV, Telluride large SUV and Seltos crossover all set their best-ever May sales, up 17%, 29% and 39%, respectively, over each model’s previous May record-setting (set in 2021).
In addition, the just-recently refreshed Seltos compact crossover set an all-time monthly sales record with sales up 15-percent over the previous best-ever monthly sales performance set by the model in March 2021.
Sales of electrified Kia vehicles also set a new monthly sales record in May 2023. Sales of the all-electric Kia EV6 for example increased 7% over the same month a year ago.
Find more details and the top selling Kia models with exact sales figures for the month of May 2023 in the sales table above.
Kia market share in USA (by year)
| Year | Sales | Market share |
| 2022 | 693.549 | |
| 2021 | 701.416 | 4,53% |
| 2020 | 586.105 | 3,99% |
| 2019 | 615.338 | 3,61% |
| 2018 | 589.673 | 3,40% |
| 2017 | 589.668 | 3,42% |
| 2016 | 647.598 | 3,69% |
| 2015 | 625.818 | 3,58% |
| 2014 | 580.234 | 3,51% |
Detailed sales statistics of all Kia models
theKEEA.com also covers monthly sales reports for each Kia vehicle on sale in USA.
- Kia Cadenza U.S. sales figures
