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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Minivan Sales In America October 2014 YTD

2015 Kia Sedona
Sales of minivans in the United States declined 2% in October 2014, the first such year-over-year decrease since February of this year. 


• U.S. Vehicle Sales Rankings By Model - October 2014 YTD


USA minivan sales chart October 2014
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In fact, Americas best-selling minivan, the Chrysler Town & Country, posted an increase in October 2014. Its twin, the Dodge Grand Caravan, slid 14%, and their joint volume was down 6%. Their market share, however, held strong at 50.7%, down somewhat from 52.8% a year ago but a rather mighty figure, nonetheless.

The Kia Sedona was perhaps the biggest minivan story in October. With a radical new design, relative to monobox layouts at least, the Sedona is a competitive vehicle once again. Sales more than tripled to 2376 units, a 1700-unit improvement.

You can click any model name in the tables below to find historical monthly and yearly U.S. auto sales data. You can also select a make and model at GCBCs Sales Stats page. This table is now sortable, so you can rank minivans any which way you like. Suggestions on how GCBC should break down segments can be passed on through the Contact page.

Click Column Headers To Sort • November 2014 • September 2014 • October 2013
Minivan
October
2014
October
2013
%
Change
2014
YTD
2013
YTD
%
Change
Chrysler Town & Country
10,936
10,5623.5%119,276 101,263 17.8%
Dodge Grand Caravan
9986
11,609-14.0%114,057 103,179 10.5%
Honda Odyssey
8271
8968-7.8%103,731 107,479 -3.5%
Kia Sedona
2376
676251%8032 6056 32.6%
Mazda 5
426
666-36.0%10,447 12,050 -13.3%
Nissan Quest
370
812-54.4%8665 11,238 -22.9%
Toyota Sienna
8938
85864.1%103,868102,917 0.9%
Volkswagen Routan
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105-100%1103 1567 -29.6%
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Total
41,303
41,984-1.6% 469,179 445,749 5.3%
Source: Automakers

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Minivan Sales In America - November 2014 YTD
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Sunday, January 25, 2015

2015 Kia Sedona Minivan Release Date

2015 Kia Sedona Minivan Release Date 

2015 Kia Sedona Minivan Release Date
2015 Kia Sedona Minivan Release Date 
2015 Kia Sedona Minivan Release DateSweet, lively, and striking arent words you take up with minivans yet the goal-oriented people at Kia have figured out how to prepare a tad bit of each into the new Sedona. With space for eight, stockpiling for family necessities, and a long rundown of standard and discretionary security offers, the Sedona is currently a convincing decision for quality minded customers. Controlled by a 276-hp, 3.3-liter V-6 with a six-rate gearbox and riding on another suspension, the Sedona additionally infuses a little fun into day by day child shipping obligations.

Kia doesnt need you to think about its new Sedona as a minivan. Indeed, it is a minivan in the past era. But now, according Kia, it is a versatile vehicle. Its fascinating, this shirking of the feared minivan name. Yes, the overhauled Sedona is a small bit more bullish in the nose and somewhat more muscular by and large, oozing an utility persona Configuration SUVs like, as shown by Kia. But they slid back entryways say "minivan" as obviously as they did in 1984, when the Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyager introduce another period of an all-around family dexterity. Call it whatever you need, people will comprehend what it is a spacious, liberally prepared minivan, one which offers an extensive variety of gimmicks and an abnormal state of solace.

2015 Kia Sedona Minivan Release Date

The new Kia Sedona imparts next to no to its antecedent: The stage, sheetmetal, inner part, and powertrain are new. At 201.4 inches, the minivans general length has contracted by 0.6 inch, on a wheelbase that is extended 1.6 inches. The Sedonas width is unaltered, and the top now settles 0.8-inch closer to the asphalt.

2015 Kia Sedona Minivan Release Date
2015 Kia Sedona Minivan Release Date 
With an eye to enhancing the Sedona Minivan thin counterbalanced frontal-impact execution in NHTSA accident tests, Kia wrenched up the rate of high-quality and ultra-high-quality steel, included thicker welds in key regions, and made expanded utilization of mechanical cements. The side advantage is expanded torsional unbending nature and also a more firm structural feel out and about. Notwithstanding structural upgrades, the improvement group likewise put time and material in sound-stifling measures, a venture that is clear in the lodges quietude.

2015 Kia Sedona Minivan Release Date  


2015 Kia Sedona Minivan Release Date

The third-era Kia Sedona Minivan evades the stoutness of the first, yet its no lightweight. Another powertrain has been appointed to moving this mass new to the Sedona, that is. Supplanting the past 3.5-liter V-6, the 3.3-liter immediate infused V-6 is imparted to Kias Sorento hybrid and Cadenza vehicle. At 276 strength, it adds 7 horses to the system, keeps up the same EPA parkway rating (24 mpg) and additions 1 mpg on the city cycle (18). Like the friendly motor, the 3.3 is mated to a six-pace programmed.

More drive is constantly welcome, yet the increment is more Hello Kitty than Hellcat in this present reality. Quickening is satisfactory in urban movement, however two-path passing introduction felt somewhat long amid our short evening drive in the slopes of California.

2015 Kia Sedona Minivan Release Date

In a comparative vein, the 2015 Kia Sedona suspension is tuned for solace, not for pace, and its pressure driven force guiding framework is both moderate (3.2 turns lock-to-bolt) and somewhat hidden. Then again, the Sedona conveys extremely well on the element values imperative to families, giving a supple ride quality with nary a jar and quieted inside clamor levels that opponent anything in the minivan/MPV class. Alternately besides, pretty much any class you want to name.

2015 Kia Sedona Minivan Release Date
2015 Kia Sedona Minivan Release Date 
Wellbeing gimmicks, standard and discretionary, are contemporary and extensive, dependably a key variable in the class. The new leaning back center line First Class parlor sort seats with extendable lower-leg rests and aerial shuttle wing-sort headrests loan an unique component to the choice rundown. The five trim levels with base costs extending from $26,795 to $40,595 means theres a bundle for pretty much any financial plan.

The Honda Odyssey may even now run this derby, however the new 2015 Sedona Minivan , paying little respect to whether you call it a minivan or a MPV, figures to run closer to the front of the pack. 2015 Kia Sedona Minivan Release Date 
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