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The Kia Tasman is off to a flying start in its home market, with the brand's first dual-cab attracting 30 per cent of the country's average ute sales – or 4000 sales – in just 17 days.They're the sales results from Korea, Kia's home country, where the Tasman is shaping as a sizeable sales success – in fact, more than 2000 were sold on the very first day of sales. But there's a catch.In Australia, where dual-cab utes have become a part of our automotive fabric, the three best-selling utes are the Ford Ranger, Toyota HiLux and Isuzu D-Max – though the plug-in powered BYD Shark 6 finished on the podium in February, due in part to carryover sales that weren't recorded correctly in January.In Korea, however, the pick-up market is tiny. Just 13,475 were sold in 2024. For comparison, Australians bought more than 18,000 utes in February alone.And crucially, there's no Ranger, HiLux or D-Max to contend with. Instead, the Tasman is up against models like the KG Mobility Rexton Sports, the Chevrolet Colorado, and Chevrolet Sierra.In Korea, the Tasman is offered exclusively with a 2.5-litre turbo-petrol engine, while in Australia the new ute will be exclusively diesel – a 2.2-litre diesel that produces 154kW and 441Nm paired with an eight-speed automatic transmission.Still, the Tasman will have to achieve similar success in Australia to hit Kia's fairly lofty sales goals of 20,000 units per annum in our market.“It's hard to judge when you see it on a YouTube video or on a screen, but when you actually, physically stand beside it, we think that it's quite an imposing product, and we're still confident our target, 20,000 a year, is something that we can achieve with the product," Kia Australia’s General Manager of Product Planning Roland Rivero recently told CarsGuide.“We're equally confident in its capability as well, as that's our big focus. As a workhorse tool of trade, a durable and reliable workhorse for that matter, we think that Tasman will deliver.”Possibly assisting the Tasman in Korea is sharp pricing. In Korea, the Tasman is offered in four trim levels, with the range kicking off with the Dynamic, at 37.5 million won, or $41,033, before stepping up the Adventure, which is 41.1 million won, or $44,971.The range then climbs to the Extreme, which 44.9 million won, or $49,129, before topping out with the flagship X-PRO listing at 52.4 million won, or $57,336.But those prices won't be replicated in Australia. For example, the Sorento GT Line (called the Signature Gravity in Korea) converts to $52,280 in its domestic market with a 2.2-litre diesel and AWD. In Australia, a similar spec and trim is more like $69,000 MSRP — a $17k difference.With that in mind, you can likely expect around a $15k-$20k premium added to Korea’s Tasman pricing.

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Kia has revealed its new path to global EV domination.The South Korean brand debuted several new models and hinted at even more at its recent EV Day.It took the covers off its Tesla Model 3 and BYD Seal rivalling EV4 sedan, which also has the added bonus of being offered as a hatchback.Kia debuted the PV5 van and people mover alongside its European-focused EV2 small SUV.These cars are all due shortly and will join the EV3 compact SUV, EV5 mid-size SUV, EV6 coupe SUV and the EV9 seven-seat SUV in its global line-up.Kia Australia has committed to the EV4, and would like the PV5 but has not confirmed its availability yet. The EV2 is off the cards as it is built in Slovakia and the business case for an affordable European-sourced EV doesn’t stack up.The company’s president Ho Sung Song, also let slip that a micro EV1 electric car is essential to mass adoption of its EVs.“If we want to move to the late majority customer target group, definitely we need a lower size of model – or a lower-price model – and we are internally studying what will be our entry EV models, apart from our EV2,” said Song.“Maybe next EV Day, we’ll show you what we are planning.”This could mean an electric version of the pint-sized Picanto hatchback, which would be a direct rival to budget EVs such as the BYD Seagull that is sold overseas but not Australia.Kia would be targeting the sub-$30,000 range if it wanted to be competitive at the lower end of the market.This line-up, with the addition of the EV1, puts Kia well ahead of Tesla — currently the world largest EV maker — and would put it on a collision course with the surging BYD.Kia has a distinct advantage, though.Tesla has ruled out smaller and more affordable cars and BYD is locked out of the US market and is hamstrung by tariffs in Europe.

Kia has used its second-ever global EV Day, held at the Tarraco Arena in Tarragona, Spain, to launch three new concept and production pure-electric models, with the headline act being the much-anticipated EV4 sedan and (Europe-only) hatch.

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