It's a wonderful time to be part of the Kia family. The milestone three hundred thousandth vehicle to roll off Kia's vehicle assembly line at the Manufacturing Plant in West Point, Georgia, was a silver Kia Sorento SX.
The only Kia North American plant opened three years ago to build the Sorento SUV, and quickly helped the struggling town become born again. Hundreds of jobs were created and industry came back to the region.
West Point has pumped itself up quickly: "after the first Sorento rolled off the line in November 2009, the plant built its 100,000th vehicle in September 2010," according to Automobile Mag Online. Just 10 months later, they've reached the 300,000-car mark. If plans for expansion go as planned, more vehicles will be rolling off the assembly line in the land of the sweet Georgia peach. 1
Starting in the fall, this plant will also build the Kia Optima sedan, along with future Optima hybrids. Kia will hire about seven hundred more workers, and increase the plant's production capacity to 360K vehicles each year in order to add Optima production.
Come on down to your local Kia dealer and test drive the great Kia line up at Wagner Kia of Shrewsbury in Shrewsbury, MA.
Source: 1http://rumors.automobilemag.com/kia-builds-300000th-vehicle-in-west-point-georgia-59285.htm
