Kia Motors Corporation announced its global sales figures for passenger cars (export sales, domestic sales and sales from overseas plants), recreational vehicles (RVs) and commercial vehicles for May 2011, recording a total of 207,839 units sold. This figure represents a year-on-year increase of 18.7%. In May, Kia posted strong year-on-year sales increases in all of its overseas regions – 48.4% in North America (55,140 units sold), 28.8% in China (33,624 units sold), 19.2% in Europe (41,139 units sold), and 7.0% in general markets (39,924 units sold), while sales in the home market of Korea declined by 5.0% (38,012 units sold).