{"id":80261,"date":"2017-04-27T16:43:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T11:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=80261"},"modified":"2017-04-27T16:43:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T11:13:58","slug":"kia-motors-enter-andhra-pradesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/kia-motors-enter-andhra-pradesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Kia Motors enter Andhra Pradesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Korea\u2019s second largest car maker Kia Motors has finally announced its plans to enter the Indian car market. Kia will build a brand new manufacturing facility for its India operations in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh at a cost of a whopping \u20b9 7050 Crore ($ 1.1 Billion).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Construction of the new factory will begin in the third quarter of 2017 with a production rollout slated for 2019. The plant will have an installed initial annual capacity of 300,000 units.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-80262 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_532131afe0bbb.jpg\" alt=\"Kia Motors enter Andhra Pradesh \" width=\"647\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_532131afe0bbb.jpg 1349w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_532131afe0bbb-768x482.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The company has said it will locally manufacture Kia cars for India, and two compact models will lead that for starters. Kia\u2019s compact sedan will rival the likes of Honda city and Maruti Suzuki Ciaz. besides cousin Hyundai Verna. The compact SUV (which could be under 4-meters in length) is likely to be an all-new model.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-80263 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/kia_red_cube_dealership_4.jpg\" alt=\"Kia Motors enter Andhra Pradesh \" width=\"576\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/kia_red_cube_dealership_4.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/kia_red_cube_dealership_4-768x487.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kia Motors will subsequently also produce other models, which includes its global high-volume hatchbacks \u2013 Picanto and Rio. The Rio sedan is likely to be the compact model mentioned earlier. body style vehicles in the facility depending on public response and sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Korea\u2019s second largest car maker Kia Motors has finally announced its plans to enter the Indian car market. Kia will build a brand new manufacturing facility for its India operations in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh at a cost of a whopping \u20b9 7050 Crore ($ 1.1 Billion). Construction of the new factory will begin in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4883,14630,48,41342,41346,18296,41344,187,41340,41341,41343,41347,238,41345],"class_list":["post-80261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-4883","tag-anantapur","tag-andhra-pradesh","tag-carmaker","tag-hatchbacks","tag-honda","tag-hyundai-verna","tag-indian","tag-kia-motors","tag-koreas","tag-maruti-suzuki-ciaz","tag-picanto","tag-rio","tag-suv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1-6.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}