Kia Motors Corporation said its global sales inches up by 3.4 per cent in May as its sold sales 261,269 units vehicles.

Kia said in a statement that it posted year-on-year sales increases in the domestic Korean market, Europe, China and North America.

Cumulatively through the first five months of 2016, Kia’s global sales totalled 1,201,936 units for a year-on-year increase of 0.5 per cent.

Kia’s bestselling model in overseas markets during May 2016 was the Sportage compact CUV with 48,798 units sold.

The B-segment Rio was the second best seller with 36,445 units sold, followed by the C-segment Cerato, Soul urban crossover and Sorento midsized CUV followed with 31,372, 18,613 and 17,609 units sold, respectively.