We almost left 2009 and missed this promotional skit back in May, when Cartoon Network and Kia got together to deck out a Soul complete with Aqua Teen Hunger Force graffiti. And what a great idea – gathering the youth market who stay up late and watche AquaTeen, Cowboy Bebop and The Boondocks… and getting their parents to buy them a new Kia. Graffiti artist Hense and was in charge of tagging the Kia Soul featuring Aqua Teen Hunger Force’s Master Shake and Meatwad.

Master Shake may be the most badass neighbor any guy living near the Jersey Shore ever had – and having him crawling across the hood of your 2009 Kia Soul would be an honor.

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.

Kia Soul Promotional Video 1

Kia Soul Promotional Video 2

We dig the funky 70′s groove this Kia Soul Promotional video has – gettin’ down with its bad self.