Kia just keeps going up. On July 29, the South Korean automaker posted a 1.1-trillion Korean won (approximately 1-billion dollars) consolidated net profit for April, May and June.  This surpassed analysts' expectations of a profit of 913-billion Korean won.

If Kia had met that forecast, it would have been an impressive feat. In seeing the automaker, triumph the aggressive projection by 187-billion Korean won (roughly 178-million dollars), our jaws at Arapahoe Kia fell agape…