To carry my TV analogy a bit further, the Telluride is like a critically acclaimed show that is growing in popularity but hasn’t yet found a mass audience.Īt any rate, the Telluride is based on a Hyundai Motor Group platform shared with its corporate cousin, the Hyundai Palisade. Clearly, interest in the Telluride is growing, and while it will likely never be Kia’s bestseller here, it has intriguing potential. Yes, the Telluride’s sales volume within Canada remains small, but a near 50 per cent yearly increase during a global pandemic and semiconductor shortage is quite a feat. Finding its 2021 sales figure took a fair bit of scrolling, but what’s more interesting to me than the number (4,270) is year over year performance (+49.67 per cent). That thought was in my mind as I sat down to write about the Telluride, the three-row, seven- or eight-passenger SUV from Kia that’s been in the Korean automaker’s lineup for almost three years. While sales are obviously an important metric and are helpful for contextualizing a vehicle’s relative market significance, they’re also a bit like TV ratings: most popular doesn’t always equal best. When I review a car, I often look at its sales to get a sense of where it ranks both within its own manufacturer lineup and the market segment in which it competes.

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