Kia · 2000–present
Kia Magentis
The Kia K5 (Korean: 기아 K5), formerly known as the Kia Optima (Korean: 기아 옵티마), is a mid-size car manufactured by Kia since 2000 and marketed globally through various nameplates. First generation cars were mostly marketed as the Optima, although the Kia Magentis name was used in Europe and Canada when sales began there in 2002. For the second-generation models, Kia used the Kia Lotze and Kia K5 name for the South Korean market, and the Magentis name globally, except in the United States, Canada, Malaysia and the Middle East, where the Optima name was retained until the 2021 model year. The K5 name is used for all markets since the introduction of the fifth generation in 2019.
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UK vehicles on the road
357 licensed and 411 SORN (768 total) at 2025 Q4.
| Year (latest quarter) | Vehicles |
|---|---|
| 2014 | 3,744 |
| 2015 | 3,405 |
| 2016 | 3,079 |
| 2017 | 2,647 |
| 2018 | 2,310 |
| 2019 | 1,983 |
| 2020 | 1,689 |
| 2021 | 1,432 |
| 2022 | 1,223 |
| 2023 | 1,065 |
| 2024 | 899 |
| 2025 | 768 |
DfT/DVLA VEH0120 vehicle licensing statistics, source ↗, Open Government Licence v3.0. Small counts are rounded or suppressed at source.
Sources
- Wikidata / Wikipedia profiles — https://models.autoculturesociety.com/cars/Q483046CC0 / CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kia_K5CC BY-SA 4.0 · Intro text © Wikipedia contributors; revision 1376662026 · retrieved 2026-10-01
- DfT/DVLA VEH0120 licensing statistics — https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/vehicle-licensing-statistics-data-tablesOpen Government Licence v3.0
- Car Model Index — https://models.autoculturesociety.com/Compiled record. Sources that do not permit reuse are not copied; this index is credited instead.