More than 23,000 cars sold in Jan 2016
Vietnam’s automobile sales in the first month of 2016 rose 16% from the same period last year, amounting to 23,165 units, the Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers Association (VAMA) announced on February 16.
During the month, the number of passenger cars sold increased 3% to 14,090 units while commercial cars shot up 50% to 8,200 units and special-purpose cars sales climbed 5% to 875 units against January 2015.
The sale of domestically assembled cars over the month stood at 17,397 units, an increase of 29%. In contrast, imported cars sales recorded 5,786 units, a reduction of 11% year-on-year.
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| More than 23,000 cars sold in Jan 2016 |
However, the number of cars sold in January 2016 fell 21% compared to the last month of 2015, in all car segments both domestically assembled cars and imported cars.
Accordingly, the number of passenger cars, commercial cars and special-purpose cars sold reduced by 16% (14,090 units) , 28.4% (8,200 units) and 24% (875 units), respectively.
