{"id":15466,"date":"2015-03-23T16:05:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T20:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=15466"},"modified":"2015-03-23T16:05:29","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T20:05:29","slug":"despite-frosty-february-sipala-said-kia-sales-were-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=15466","title":{"rendered":"Despite frosty February, Sipala said Kia sales were hot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Kia dealer with outlets in West Chester and Coatesville see big increase over 2014<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_107323\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/KIA-westchester-300x225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107323\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1073231\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"KIA-westchester\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/KIA-westchester-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-107323\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Sipala&#8217;s Kia of West Chester.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The National Weather Service is reporting that the greater Philadelphia area experienced its coldest February since 1979, with the average temperature coming in at a frigid 25.8 degrees Fahrenheit. But those icy temps didn\u2019t deter customers from flocking to the two Jim Sipala Kia dealerships in Chester County: Kia of West Chester and Kia of Coatesville.<\/p>\n<p>In February, both of Sipala\u2019s stores smashed their sales figures from the same time frame a year earlier. Kia of West Chester\u2019s sales were up a robust 32%, while Kia of Coatesville\u2019s numbers increased by 53%, the dealership announced Monday.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome dealers in the Northeast had a slow February, but not us,\u201d said Sipala. \u201cWe have tremendous employees at both dealerships who understand the car business is all about building relationships first. You don\u2019t earn the right to ask for a customer\u2019s business until you get to know them and find out about their needs and wants \u2013 and they\u2019re doing a terrific job. I couldn\u2019t be more proud of everyone who played a part in achieving these outstanding numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_107323\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Coatesville-300x168.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107323\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1073234 \" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"Coatesville\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Coatesville-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-107323\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kia of Coatesville<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Kia of West Chester and Kia of Coatesville have reached this level of success, Sipala said, because they have earned their reputation for excellent service not only for offering the finest selection and value to customers, but also for doing their part to give back to the community.<\/p>\n<p>Sipala purchased the West Chester store in 2004, later moving it to its current location at 326 Westtown Road. In 2008, the Coatesville Store (located at 2535 East Lincoln Highway) was added. That store recently underwent a $2 million remodel.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kia dealer with outlets in West Chester and Coatesville see big increase over 2014 The National Weather Service is reporting that the greater Philadelphia area experienced its coldest February since 1979, with the average temperature coming in at a frigid 25.8 degrees Fahrenheit. But those icy temps didn\u2019t deter customers from flocking to the two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[370,5982,5983,385,374],"class_list":["post-15466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-coatesville","tag-jim-sipala","tag-kia","tag-west-chester","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}