Kia Optima

Car Sedan ⭐ Popular pick Discontinued

1 production run · 7 variants · 10 registers with powertrain counts

Years on record

The first and last year each official register has the Kia Optima on record.

Netherlands: 2007–2021; Surviving fleet by first-registration year.
Finland: 2012–2026; Surviving fleet by first-registration year.

Worldwide popularity

Top 10% worldwide

Measured from real registration and fleet counts, not clicks or hype.

Where it's been spotted

Australia Canada Finland Israel Luxembourg Netherlands New Zealand Norway Spain Switzerland Ukraine United Kingdom United States

Evidence of real vehicles in each country's official register. Grey imports count, because they're real vehicles on real roads.

Production history & variants

1 production run · 7 variants · 10 registers with powertrain counts

Powertrain counts straight from official registers, each with what that register counts.

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Building on it? The same record is one API call: /api/v1/vehicles/car/kia/optima/full

Registration history

Netherlands: Surviving fleet by first-registration year

Finland: Surviving fleet by first-registration year

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Netherlands
2007	1
2012	33
2013	211
2014	148
2015	45
2016	146
2017	149
2018	171
2019	393
2020	49
2021	5

Finland
2012	60
2013	115
2014	93
2015	90
2016	296
2017	438
2018	445
2019	371
2020	340
2021	268
2022	445
2023	559
2024	236
2025	32
2026	2

From official registers, as of 2026.10.3. Bases differ per country, so never compare across panels.

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The Kia Optima as JSON, one request away: its canonical id, where it is registered and how popular it is.

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{
  "id": "car/kia/optima",
  "name": "Optima",
  "make": {
    "id": "kia",
    "name": "Kia"
  },
  "kind": "car",
  "body_type": "sedan",
  "availability": [
    "au",
    "ca",
    "ch",
    "es",
    "fi",
    "gb",
    "il",
    "lu",
    "nl",
    "no",
    "nz",
    "ua",
    "us"
  ],
  "regions": [
    "as",
    "eu",
    "na",
    "oc"
  ],
  "popularity": {
    "global_decile": 3,
    "mass_decile": 1,
    "rarity": "common"
  },
  "aliases": [],
  "former_ids": [
    "car/kia/optima-fe",
    "car/kia/optima-sx"
  ],
  "years": null,
  "era": "discontinued",
  "enrichment": null,
  "enrichment_gated": true,
  "dataset_version": "2026.10.3",
  "upgrade_url": "https://vehiclesdb.com/pricing",
  "attribution": {
    "source": "VehiclesDB",
    "url": "https://vehiclesdb.com",
    "license": "Identity layer: CC-BY-4.0; enrichment/resolution: proprietary. Display requires visible credit — see https://vehiclesdb.com/legal/attribution",
    "dataset_version": "2026.10.3"
  }
}

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