List of Kia design and manufacturing facilities
Kia Motors maintains a number of design and manufacturing facilities in its home country of South Korea, as well as the United States, Eastern Europe, China, Japan, Mexico and Vietnam.
The Namyang Design Center, located in Hwaseong, South Korea, serves as Kia's primary design facility. The facility, which is shared with parent company Hyundai, is located on over 3.3 million square meters of land and serves as the central hub for engineering work encompassing the entire design process, from pre-design studies, prototyping and extensive track testing, full-scale wind tunnel aerodynamic testing. to crash testing. Kia and Hyundai employees from around the world receive training at the Namyang Center.
The Kia Design Center America in Irvine, California, is located on a 22 acres (8.9 ha) corporate campus with a $130 million initial investment, the Irvine, California Kia Design Center was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and was completed in 2008, featuring 45 workstations and nine offices. The studio can model up to eight vehicles at once and includes a computerized milling machine that can quickly create full-size models. Work and presentation areas include a 2-D presentation room, "a kind of darkroom in virtual reality where up to three full-size digital images can be projected for evaluation and comparison."
The 239,000-square-foot (22,200 m2) building features a hallmark 6,000-square-foot (560 m2) entry canopy and sits aside a 36,000-square-foot (3,300 m2) reflecting pool. The parking lot includes an environmentally efficient bioswale system to filter water runoff.
The Kia Design Center Europe was opened in 2007 in Frankfurt, Germany. Kia had previously shared a facility with Hyundai in Russelsheim, Germany. The new headquarters building is located adjacent to Frankfurt's main showground where the city hosts its biennial auto show.
South Korea: The Sohari Plant was Kia Motors first integrated automobile manufacturing plant, established in 1973 on 498,908 square metres (5,370,200 sq ft) of land. Subsequently, the plant manufactured Kia's first internal combustion engine, followed by the manufacture of its first automobile, the Kia Brisa (1974–1982). In 1975, Kia exported its first vehicle, the Brisa pickup, to the Middle Eastern nation of Qatar.
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