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KiaK5

2000 – present South Korea Large Cars 1 production year
Production2000 – present
Recorded originSouth Korea
ClassLarge Cars
Also known asKia Optima
Background

The Kia K5, formerly known as the Kia Optima, is a mid-size car manufactured by Kia since 2000 and marketed globally through various nameplates. First generation cars were mostly marketed as the Optima, although the Kia Magentis name was used in Europe and Canada when sales began there in 2002. For the second-generation models, Kia used the Kia Lotze and Kia K5 name for the South Korean market, and the Magentis name globally, except in the United States, Canada, Malaysia and the Middle East, where the Optima name was retained until the 2021 model year. The K5 name is used for all markets since the introduction of the fifth generation in 2019.

Text adapted from “Kia K5” on Wikipedia ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗ · retrieved 2026-07

Chronology ledger

Dates with their meaning intact

Production chronology2000–open

Sourced production or model lifecycle range used by the main catalog timeline.

Wikipedia lead ↗1 year
US EPA model years2021–2026

Model years represented in FuelEconomy.gov; a US-market observation, not a worldwide production range.

EPA FuelEconomy.gov ↗Observed bounds
Canadian NRCan model years2021–2024

Model years in Natural Resources Canada retail fuel-consumption data; Canadian-market evidence, not a worldwide production range.

Natural Resources Canada ↗4 years
Netherlands RDW first-admission observations2021–2022

First-admission years observed in Dutch vehicle registrations; this is market evidence, not a worldwide production range.

Netherlands RDW ↗2 years