The Vietnam Association of Motorcycle Manufacturers (VAMM) has said its five members, namely Honda, Piaggio, Suzuki, SYM, and Yamaha, sold over 3.25 million motorbikes in 2019, a year-on-year decline of 3.87 percent.
Hanoi (VNA) – The VietnamAssociation of Motorcycle Manufacturers (VAMM) has said its five members,namely Honda, Piaggio, Suzuki, SYM, and Yamaha, sold over 3.25 millionmotorbikes in 2019, a year-on-year decline of 3.87 percent.
Honda is making up nearly 81 percent of thesector’s market share with the most diverse range of products.
The five VAMM members are manufacturing anddistributing nearly 100 models of motorcycles with prices ranging from tens ofmillions of VND to over one billion VND each.
Other domestic brands present in Vietnam’smotorcycle market are VinFast and Pega, as well as foreign firms such as Kymco,Ducacti, Kawasaki, BMW, KTM, Benelli, Harley Davidson, Triumph, Royal Enfield,and Motorrad.
According to insiders, as Vietnamese people’s incomeshave increases, more customers have been switching to buying cars. Last year,400,000 cars were sold at home, a record number over the past 20 years.
Air pollution in big cities has also made alarge number of people use their personal cars or buses instead of motorbikes toensure health and reduce traffic jam, experts said./.
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The Vietnam Association of Motorcycle Manufacturers (VAMM) reported gloomy figures for the last months of 2019, a time when the industry typically expects a boom in sales revenue.
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