but they are hoping that once the Mexican plants gets up and running that this might alleviate some of their capacity problems.
http://thekoreancarblog.com/2015/10/21/kia-soul-turbo-and-soul-awd-in-the-works/
Still seems odd to me, but acceptable. I would wager a burger that sales of the Soul would double if it were offered with AWD.
I think you would loose
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, it could possibly increase somewhat but not double, they are already running at capacity (basically only one plant in South Korea supplies the whole world market for this vehicle and that same plants also builds the Rondo, Sportage and trucks, buses and military vehicles, it has a capacity of 620,000 units and was upgrades from 500,000 prior to 2013) and not meeting the demand. The vast majority of their buyers in their largest market, the US, do not need or want AWD and where required just slap on a good set of snow tires and your good to go. FWD with snow tires is far superior to AWD with all seasons, but I suppose it will provide competition to other models in its segment that do offer AWD, I'm sure it will come eventually along with a turbo engine too.
Well over one million of the Soul have been sold worldwide since it introduction.