Is your new car on a storage compound? Inside Kia's scheme to deliberately withhold deliveries

Go Public has learned that new Kia cars — orders customers have waited months and months to drive — have arrived in the country but are not being released to dealerships to sell. It’s part of a controversial strategy devised by Kia Canada to game 2023 sales numbers.

Is your new car on a storage compound? Inside Kia's scheme to deliberately withhold deliveries
Dozens of cars are parked in rows on a dusty gravel lot.

Go Public has learned that new Kia cars — orders customers have waited months and months to drive — have arrived in the country but are not being released to dealerships to sell. It’s part of a controversial strategy devised by Kia Canada to game 2023 sales numbers.