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Kia Corp (000270.KS) is a South Korean automaker, part of the Hyundai Motor Group, producing cars, SUVs and a growing lineup of hybrid and electric vehicles.
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Kia sold 76,850 cars in Britain from January to August, 776 more than BMW, to take second place behind Volkswagen on SMMT figures. That lead is under a tenth of Kia's average month in Britain, close enough for the order to change by December.
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Ford outsold Hyundai Motor Group by 1,195 light-duty U.S. vehicles in the third quarter and kept the No. 3 spot. Ford links its lower volume to retiring the Escape and Corsair, and that drop is about 58% of the 62,000 vehicles its lead shrank over the year.
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The GV90 rides the same 800V platform as the Ioniq 9 and EV9, so Genesis is selling doors, swivelling seats and heated floors instead. Crash testing will decide whether that works.
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KAMA's seven-month count of 237,032 registrations is already past all of last year, but Tesla's 66,376 sales in Korea now put Hyundai third in EVs in its own home market, with Kia still ahead on 85,444.
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Kia's Korean electric volume more than doubled to 100,118 units by September 17 and now runs at 23.8% of everything it sells at home, with the EV3, EV5 and PV5 each landing between 20,000 and 26,000 units.
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Jeffrey Brantingham's team traced the 2020 theft surge to twenty Kia and Hyundai models built without engine immobilizers. Their Los Angeles forecast follows those cars as they depreciate into less affluent neighbourhoods.
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Hyundai has ruled out a 2027 listing for Boston Dynamics, whose 528.4 billion won loss last year was about a third of its five-year total, and Meritz Securities now expects a debut in 2029 or 2030.
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Detroit's protection against Chinese carmakers rests on a regulation from early 2025, and the industry wants a statute instead by the end of December, roughly three months after Trump and Xi are due to meet.
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Hyundai has released the first road footage of Atria AI, the self-driving platform it is building in-house, driving hands-off in Seoul traffic. Cars carrying it are due in mass production in the second half of 2029.
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US EV deliveries have fallen for three straight quarters since the $7,500 credit lapsed in September 2025. Most of the nameplates dropped this year were assembled outside the US, and each quarterly decline is smaller than the last.
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Hyundai Motor Group told a media day in Seongnam that Level 2+ reaches mass production in the first half of 2028, and that it will pass competitors' accumulated driving data within five years of that start. About 40 cars collect its data now.
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The $5.8 billion Ascension Parish plant is due to roll 2.7 million tonnes of sheet a year from 2029. The two automakers holding 30 percent of the joint venture are also the named buyers. That is the part that de-risks it.
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The walkout set for the 24th is off and a 17th bargaining round is on at Ulsan. The one booked for the 25th is not, and the hardest demands on the table are the ones that cannot be split.
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Cumulative eco-friendly sales reached 9,229,837 units by mid-year. Hybrids are 61 percent of that total, and the Tucson Hybrid alone has outsold the Ioniq 5 by two-thirds.
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