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| the statement about "ki" also having a different meaning as a "martial arts term" is irrelevant here. "ki" is simply a latinization/transliteration. just because it happens to share a tranliteration with a totally different word, should not merit any significance here. | the statement about "ki" also having a different meaning as a "martial arts term" is irrelevant here. "ki" is simply a latinization/transliteration. just because it happens to share a tranliteration with a totally different word, should not merit any significance here. | ||
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| The worst cars built. Ask anyone who works in an auto repair shop or wrecking yard. Lets hear it for all of those who got screwed. ] | |||
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The Logo
The logo appears clearly as ΚΙΛ... That would be pronounced as KILL... Should the page be moved to "Kill Motors", since Unicode article titles don't work on the English Wikipædia?
I wonder if any of their customers know both the Greek alphabet and English..? Κσυπ Cyp 06:03, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)
While appearing as such, the Logo's really just a stylied 'KIA'. MardukZero 18:20, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
content from KIA
This was in the article KIA. Maybe some of this can be incorporated here? Rvollmert 12:34, 2004 Aug 28 (UTC)
- KIA motors was found in 1944 as an industry of bicycle parts manufactures in Seoul, south Korea. KIA took its current name 1951 (from earlier name Kyungsung Precision Industry).
- KIA produced Korea's first bicycle 1951, first motor cycle 1961, first truck 1962, first gasoline engine in 1973, and October 1974 country's first motor car, Brisa. KIA was taken over by Hyundai Business Group in 1998.
Stub?
Is this article still short enough to be considered a stub? Most stubs are far shorter than this.
Alex July 9, 2005 06:04 (UTC)
Does Kia Motors Europe really have a website?? I think someone just assumed that address is legit.
Hyundai Automotive Group is not a parent company of Kia Motors Corporation(KMC). In fact, no such company exists. Hyundai Motor Company(HMC) and its affiliates including KMC are collectively called Hyundai Automotive Group. Detailed information on the relationships of the Group companies are available on the Hyundai Motor investor relations website.
http://ir.hyundai-motor.com/eng/index.html
Acronym
I always thought KIA was an acronym. Korean International Automobiles. 67.188.172.165 18:32, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
- That is incorrect.
- The word Kia has origins in the Chinese language.
- ki is Chinese for "arise or come up out of" and the a stands for Asia. So Kia means to "arise or come up out of Asia".
- http://www.kia.com/faq.php
- It would be more correct to say that the name comes from Chinese characters, namely hanja, not from the Chinese language as that term is normally understood. The pronunciations gi/ki and a are specific to the Korean language. See wikt:起, wikt:亞 -- Visviva 11:44, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- That may be. But Chinese characters can be called the Chinese language. It's the written language.
- In any case, that is Kia's own definition of their own name so it must be the correct one when referring to Kia Motors.
- Furthermore, "rising up" could just as easily be translated to mean "rebirth". It is derived so it does not have to be a literal translation!
"martial arts term"
the statement about "ki" also having a different meaning as a "martial arts term" is irrelevant here. "ki" is simply a latinization/transliteration. just because it happens to share a tranliteration with a totally different word, should not merit any significance here.
Garbage
The worst cars built. Ask anyone who works in an auto repair shop or wrecking yard. Lets hear it for all of those who got screwed. randazzo56