How Long Does a Used Kia Soul Take to Sell?

Real days-on-lot from 744 retail sales at independent dealerships, broken out by model year.

Sales window: Jan 2024 – Oct 2026 Sample: 744 sales Updated monthly
Short answer

Half of all used Kia Souls sell within 49 days, against an all-vehicle median of 39 days — that is 10 days slower than the typical vehicle on an independent lot. A quarter move in under 18 days and a quarter take more than 112 — that spread is the part worth planning around.

49
days on lot
median
18–112
middle half
sells in
744
sales in
the sample
94,445
average
miles
$11,859
average
list price
$1,617
est. holding
cost*
“We need to buy and sell more cars to net the same profit levels.”
— An independent dealer in the Midwest, Cox Automotive's Q4 2025 Dealer Sentiment Index

By model year

Age and turn time are not the straight line most dealers assume. The 2013 moves fastest at 32 days, while the 2019 sits for 85.

Model year Median days Sales Avg miles Avg list price
2021 Kia Soul 79 43 68,855 $15,343
2020 Kia Soul 61.5 82 81,863 $14,534
2019 Kia Soul 85 57 90,691 $11,997
2018 Kia Soul 54 72 94,196 $11,888
2017 Kia Soul 36.5 54 97,621 $10,463
2016 Kia Soul 37 124 105,794 $10,476
2015 Kia Soul 44 77 110,426 $9,230
2014 Kia Soul 35 46 111,987 $8,610
2013 Kia Soul 32 43 113,306 $8,358

Model years with at least 40 recorded sales. Days on lot is the calendar gap between inventory entry and sale date.

Methodology

Days on lot is the number of calendar days between a vehicle being added to a dealership's inventory and its recorded sale date. That clock starts at intake, so on units that need work it includes reconditioning time. We exclude vehicles with no entry date, sales recorded before the entry date, and anything over 730 days — those are data-entry artifacts, not slow-moving inventory.

We report the median, not the average. Turn time has a long right tail: a handful of units that sit for a year or more drag the mean well above what a normal car does. Across every vehicle we track, the mean is 67 days while the median is 39. The median answers the question a dealer is actually asking, and the quartiles show the spread around it.

These figures come from aggregated, de-identified activity across independent dealerships that use AutoRaptor. We report only totals across many dealerships, never an individual dealership's results. No customer records, buyer information or dealership names are included.

We publish a model only at 150 or more sales, and a model year only at 40 or more. We do not publish gross profit figures, because the price fields in our data are incomplete and any margin we reported would be wrong.

Average list price is the advertised price at the time of listing, not necessarily what the buyer paid — the field that records the actual sale price is populated on a small fraction of sales, too few to publish. We exclude listings under $500 or over $200,000 as data-entry artifacts.

*Est. holding cost is Kia Soul's median days on lot multiplied by $33, the industry-wide daily floorplan cost per vehicle reported in the NIADA 2025 Used Car Industry Report — an external benchmark, not a figure derived from AutoRaptor data. It's a reminder that a slower-turning model doesn't just sell later, it costs more to hold.

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