First official picture of the Korean firm's new luxury saloon, the Cadenza, revealed ahead of its Middle-east debut
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PSA Peugeot Citroen expects output at its Slovak assembly plant to be slightly above 200,000 units this year, with similar volume in 2010, the outgoing chief executive of its Slovak operations, Jean Mouro, said on Monday.
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Kia Motors Rus plans to do everything possible to restart production of Kia cars at Russian automaker IzhAvto soon, managing director Vladimir Dukelsky said on Friday.
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C-Cactus blends style, space and low costs and is aimed at taking sales from Kia and Hyundai
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Hyundai Motor sales last month were up 61% to 307,181 units.
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Troubled IzhAvto has secured agreement with Kia for the monthly assembly of 500 Kia Spectra and 300 Kia Sorento cars at the plant in Izhevsk, Udmurtia, according to a state minister.
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Hyundai Mobis, the auto components maker affiliated with the Hyundai Kia Automotive Group, plans to expand its current network of 18 overseas logistics centres supplying spare parts.
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One brand sums up just how big a shake-up the European market has had in 2009: Kia. Trailing Honda by only 6,500 units after the first eight months, the Korean firm is clearly on a roll. Perhaps surprisingly, it is the battered UK market that's been leading the charge. Kia Motors UK's new managing director Michael Cole tells Glenn Brooks not only how those sales gains are being made, but also profits.
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Kia Motors continues its full-fledged design and vehicle lineup transformation and today Kia Motors America (KMA) introduces the all-new 2011 Sorento CUV. The first vehicle to roll off the line at Kia Motors' state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in West Point, Georgia, the new Sorento adopts Kia signature design cues and offers the U.S. market a well-equipped, well-appointed and versatile CUV suited perfectly for the time and a fun, dynamic generation of drivers.
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Kia Motors' UK chief Michael Cole is supporting automakers' trade group SMMT's attempts to persuade the government to extend the taxpayer-funded scrappage scheme until its original end date of February 2010 rather than ending when the GBP300m fund runs out, now estimated to be by the end of October.
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The pieces in the Kia jigsaw are coming together to present a clear picture of the brand and its products, Paul Philpott, one month into his new role as head of the South Korean company's European operations, told just-auto in Frankfurt.
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Kia Motors Corporation has joined with other leading global automakers to urge governments, energy companies and other organizations to develop easily accessible and affordable hydrogen infrastructure to ensure the successful introduction of fuel cell electric vehicles into the marketplace.
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Hyundai Motor and affiliate Kia plan to launch cars equipped with new high-speed wireless internet services from 2012.
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Kia has benefited the most from government tax incentives estimated to have prompted the purchase of 40% of the 387,000 vehicles sold in Korea between May and July.
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Hyundai Mobis, South Korea's largest automotive parts maker affiliated with Hyundai-Kia, has announced a US$2bn contract to supply Chrysler with front and rear chassis modules for its Dodge Durango and Jeep Cherokee models from 2010.
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Hyundai Motor sales rose to 245,876 in August compared with 196,452 a year previously.
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We are seeing a growing preference for cars with a sense of openness. In line with this trend, Kia Motors is focusing on developing cars that provide a wide field of vision and openness in the relatively confined space of an automobile.
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The debut of the Forte LPi Hybrid demonstrated Kia's ability to independently develop hybrid technologies. The list includes hardware and related software such as the electric motor which provides additional driving power, the battery that stores electric energy, the inverter which supplies and controls the battery's high voltage power to the electric motor, and the converter which changes the battery's high voltage to 12V.
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