During the New Carnival launching event held at Walkerhill Hotel in Seoul on May 22, Kim Chang-Sik, vice president of Kia Motors, said, “We will boost our domestic sales with New Carnival and New Sorento, which is set to be released in August.”
For the January-April period of this year, Kia Motors sold 147,010 units in domestic market, down 1.5 percent year on year. Kia Motors set the domestic monthly sales target for the New Carnival at 4,000 units.
At present, existing Carnival and Sorento models are selling 1,500 units and 1,200 units, respectively, in a month. Kia Motors, however, expect such monthly sales figures to rise up to 4,000 units and 4,500 units thanks to a new model effect.
The New Carnival is a 3G Carnival model which came in nine years after 2G model was released in 2005. The original Carnival was released first in 1998.
