Kia sell their 500,000th car in the UK – a cee’d ‘4’ 1.6 CRDi

Dale & Amy Pollard receive the keys to Kia’s 500,000th UK car

Kia arrived in the UK in 1991 as a seller of budget cars, but in recent years Kia, along with sister company Hyundai, has moved very much in to the mainstream, with a range of credible cars that now sell on merit, not just price. That turn round for Kia has seen sales rising strongly to the point where they have now sold 5000,000 Kias since the marque first arrived in the UK.

The milestone car is a cee’d ‘4’ 1.6 CRDi and has been delivered to a married couple in Leicester - Dale and Amy Pollard – who got a bit of special treatment from their Kia dealers - Kia Sandicliffe – at a handover ceremony attended by Stuart Wardle from Kia and Sandicliffe’s John Marsh.

It looks like flowers and much fawning were the order of the day – as well as a freebie Care-3 Service Plan - as Dale and Amy got the keys to their cee’d, and Dale was very much ‘on side’ when he said:

It was important for me to have the same class, features and luxury that I was used to on my previous car, a Volkswagen Golf.  At another manufacturer you could buy a similar car to a cee’d but you’d have to add on £10,000 to get the same equipment which Kia provides as standard.

The test drive blew me away – we instantly decided it was the car for us.

It’s all a nice bit of Kia PR fluff to trumpet their milestone of 500k cars sold, but with sales this year already greater than in a full year sales just five years ago, Kia are expecting to hit the million sales mark in the UK by the end of the decade.

We’d be surprised if it takes that long.

By Cars UK