Illustrative photo (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers Association (VAMA) reportedon May 9 that up to 21,123 vehicles were sold in the domestic market in April.
Ofthe total, the sales of tourist vehicles reached 13,549, up 5 percent, whilethe sales of commercial vehicles decreased 8 percent to 6,375 units and thesales of specialised vehicles also fell 8 percent to 1,217 units as comparedwith the previous month.
Notably,the domestically-assembled cars segment saw afall of 5 percent in sales to 17,910 vehicles. On the contrary, 3,213 vehicleswere imported, up 37 percent month-on-month.
Truong Hai Automobile JSC (Thaco) continued to take the leadin the market with 8,679 cars sold. It was followed by Toyota Vietnam with4,234 units.
With 2,815 units delivered to customers, Honda Vietnam tookthe third position of Ford Vietnam which sold only 1,359 units in the month.
During the January-April period, total automobile sales were80,681 units, a decrease of 7 percent year-on-year. The sales of touristvehicles increased 2 percent, while that of commercial and specialised carsfell 18 percent and 36 percent, respectively.
The sales of domestically-assembled cars edged up 8 percentagainst a decrease of 47 percent in the sales of imported cars.
Experts said consumers are still expecting cheaper cars withpreferential import taxes.
However, since the first batch of about 2,000 cars imported by Honda Vietnamwith import tax of zero percent, there were no more carmakers allowed to importvehicles over the past three months.-VNA
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