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In November 2009, Kia started production at the first U.S. Kia Motors plant, Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia, in West Point. Though the Kia Sorento crossover vehicle was the only model to be assembled there at first, the facility has since expanded its production lines to include the Kia Optima mid-size sedan, now sold as the K5, in 2011 and ...
A-segment city car. 148,197 Ray: 2011 TAM 2011 South Korea City car with single rear sliding door based on the Picanto for the South Korean market. Battery electric version is available. 44,566 Sedan/liftback: EV4: 2025 CT 2025 Global Battery electric sedan based on the Hyundai E-GMP platform. K3: 2023 BL7 2023 Latin America and Middle East
The 1997 model year Kia Sportage was the world's first production vehicle to be equipped with a knee airbag. [3] This first-generation model (1993–2002) sold in low numbers, even domestically in South Korea, and models after Hyundai's 1998 partial takeover of Kia (1997–2002) were recalled twice for rear wheels dismounting while driving. The ...
In 1909, Rambler became the first car company to equip its cars with a spare tire that was mounted on a fifth wheel. [55] Some examples of cars of the period included: [citation needed] 1907 Takuri—the first entirely Japanese-made gasoline engine car produced by Komanosuke Uchiyama in April 1907.
His wife and sons became the first true motorists, in 1889, when they took the car out for the specific task of paying a family visit. Germany. Internal-combustion: Benz. UK. Internal-combustion: Butler. US. Electric: Armstrong Electric. Panhard-Levassor (1890-1895). This model was the first automobile to circulate in Portugal
They are listed in chronological order from when each model began its model year. If a model did not have continuous production, it is listed again on the model year production resumed. Concept cars and submodels are not listed unless they are themselves notable.
The Kia K5 (Korean: 기아 K5), formerly known as the Kia Optima (Korean: 기아 옵티마), is a mid-size car manufactured by Kia since 2000 and marketed globally through various nameplates. First generation cars were mostly marketed as the Optima, although the Kia Magentis name was used in Europe and Canada when sales began there in 2002.
The second generation was Kia's first model to be manufactured in the United States, in Kia's new US$1 billion West Point, Georgia, factory (which also builds the sister vehicle to the Sorento, the Hyundai Santa Fe). The second generation used Kia's corporate Tiger Nose grille, and was the first Kia vehicle to offer Kia UVO.