Kia announced sales results for the month January 2014. For the period the company sold 257,331 vehicles globally last month, a decline of 1.3% year on year from 260,778 units in January 2012. Last month, the company's domestic sales slid 6.2% year on year to 34,000 units, while exports dipped 0.5% year on year to 223,331 units. On a month-on-month (m/m) basis sales were up 4.9% from 245,200 units.

For the year 2014 the company expected to sell 2.96 million vehicles.