Kia UK Has Soul – 1000 of Them!
Kia delivers 1000th Soul in the UK market only 100 days after its inaugural launch. The most popular Soul in the UK is Vanilla coated “Shaker”, equipped with CRDI diesel engine.
If you followed our monthly sales reports lately, you must have noticed increasing US sales numbers for the Soul crossover. Since Kia put its youth-oriented crossover on sale four months ago, more than 8.000 people drove it home already. And these are only US sales numbers. If we add around 1000 Souls that are being sold in Canada each month and count also increasing European sales, it becomes more obvious that the 2010 Soul is a vey, very popular in just about every corner of the globe.
Soul has been selling particularly well in the UK market. According to Kia Motors UK, the company needed only 100 days to sell the 1000th Soul! Selling 1000 cars of one model in only 100 days after its official launch is a major milestone for the company, especially when considering the current economic gloom. So congrats to all of you @ Kia UK!
A happy Soul owner has driven home the Soul Shaker, coated in Vanilla exterior color and equipped with 1.6L CRDi diesel engine. His Soul Shaker runs on 18-inch alloy wheels and features a unique houndstooth interior trim. It is also equipped with a small LCD screen positioned in the rear view mirror that turns on when the shifter’s moved to reverse mode. From my Soul test-drive experience, this is a very useful part of equipement that every car should have applied.
Most popular model in the UKs Soul range is the Soul 2 making up almost 50 per cent of the sales mix split almost evenly between petrol and diesel – diesel is slightly favoured. The favourite Soul Original from the range is the Vanilla wrapped Shaker CRDi, taking just over 16 per cent of Soul sales.
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