Kia Motors Corporation announced today its global sales figures for passenger cars (export sales, domestic sales and sales from overseas plants), recreational vehicles (RVs) and commercial vehicles for August 2010, recording a total of 173,703 units sold. This figure represents a year-on-year increase of 26.0%. In August, Kia posted healthy year-on-year sales increases of 72.1% in general markets (42,400 units sold), 53.4% in Korea (38,620 units sold), 23.1% in China (26,792 units sold) and 20.7% in Europe (27,996 units sold).