Over the past few years, Kia Motors has been heavily investing in manufacturing facilities in the United States of America. Thanks to the vision and can-do attitude of the people of West Point, Georgia, a community is flourishing and has become an American success story.

Kia Motors has this to say about their new, massive, state-of-the-art Georgia facility:

"We believe we're building more than great cars in the U.S.-because we are. Our family has grown to more than 3,000 talented team members at the plant and another 7,500 at nearby suppliers-that's more than 10,000 new jobs-and we are committed to developing the most efficient, environmentally sustainable and sophisticated manufacturing facility in the country. We're creating something truly special, but we're just getting started."

Hyun-Jong Shin, CEO of Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia writes:

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.

Kia Motors is gaining renown for producing some of the most technologically advanced and safety conscious vehicles on the roads today, and we're doing it in accordance with the Kia Way. What is the Kia Way? It's our creed. It's our foundation. It's our "one-system/one-team" approach that's built on trust, mutual respect, and open communication among all team members.

During the month of June 2015, J.D. Power recognized the brand as the second-highest scoring nameplate industry-wide in its 2015 Initial Quality Study (IQS). Kia's IQS score improved by 20 points over its previous best-ever performance in 2014, vaulting the burgeoning automaker up four positions to second overall among thirty-three automotive brands and highest among all mass-market nameplates.

Despite its notoriety for offering cost-effective motor vehicles, Kia Motors is not here to simply cater to just one demographic of economy vehicle seekers. Rather Kia manufactures everything from quality entry level vehicles for college graduates like the Kia Soul, to high end, luxury vehicles like the Kia Cadenza and K900.

With a design center based in Irvine, California, Kia Motors is infusing its American line-up of quality motor vehicles into the American way of life, and designing them around the wants and needs of everyday Americans.

Kia Motors maintains a commitment to the environment and sustainable business practices. Why? Because the Earth is everyone's home. And we're in it for the long haul, and that means not only do we take great care to look after the members of our Kia family, but also maintain a commitment to our communities and our planet.