Local assembly will be an important aspect of Kia Malaysia’s operation, with the company targeting to produce 100,000 units of four models in the next five years, both for domestic and export markets.
During a media briefing today, the company said investing in CKD operations here is a key success factor in the ASEAN market. It added that Malaysia is the best country for Kia to roll out the CKD programme thanks to the favourable CKD policies and established logistics and vendor programmes.
Assembly of Kia models will take place at the Inokom plant in Kulim, Kedah for domestic and export markets (namely neighbouring ASEAN countries). On the latter, the company is targeting for 6,000 units to be exported in 2022, which will gradually ramp up by 3,000 units annually.
By 2026, the company aims to produce 30,000 units a year, with 19,000 units being destined for export markets. The four models that will be assembled here include the Carnival and Sorento (which will be facelifted in 2024), as well as the Sportage and Niro.
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Those numbers pales in comparison of KIA malaysian annual sales of 40-50k units per year in the past with the citra, ria, suria, sorento and spectra.
Kudos BEERMAZ kia! thumbs down naza , Boo!!
in comparison, KIA USA sells a bout 220k cars in the usa alone (2018 sales figures)… our region sales here is small, our country’s sales is tinier! quite surprised they didn’t opt for Indonesia to be a manufacturing hub and EV development for the region (like what their big brother Hyundai did)
to be honest investing in indonesia is not disappointing things because hyundai the brother of kia has sold almost thousand of ev cars just in a month and hyundai sales growth really high in the january 2022. so i believe if kia want to invest in indonesia for ev and cars i believe their sales will be a same like hyundai this day 4000 unit in this march
When new sportage release in malaysia market