Hanoi (VNA) – Sales of automobiles in September increased 32 percent againstthe previous month to reach 27,252 units, the Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers’Association (VAMA) reported on October 10.

Salesof passenger cars expanded 34 percent to 20,630 units and commercial vehicles,up 29 percent to 6,396 units. Meanwhile, special-use vehicles dropped 16percent month-on-month to 226 units.

September salesincluded 17,826 locally-assembled vehicles, up 28 percent, and 9,426 importedvehicles, up 41 percent.

During the firstnine months, a total of 179,155 vehicles were sold, a drop of 22 percentyear-on-year, with passenger cars falling 23 percent, commercial vehicles, down20 percent, and special-use vehicles, down 36 percent.

Insiders said thefigures have failed to reflect the whole market situation as they excludedsales of many brands that are not VAMA members like Audi, Jaguar Land Rover,Mercedes-Benz, Subaru, Volkswagen, Volvo and TC Motor.

TC Motorunveiled on October 10 that it sold 8,213 automobiles last month, a rise of 53percent from August, while VinFast sold a record of 3,684 units.

The combinedsales of VAMA members, TC Motor, and VinFast reached 39,147 in September.

TC Motor,Toyota, KIA, VinFast, Mazda, Ford, Mitsubishi and Honda are the best selling inthe Vietnamese automobile market.

Expertsexplained that the domestic automobile market has bounced back as the COVID-19pandemic has been contained in Vietnam and businesses have offered an array ofpromotion programmes.

However, theysaid, it is hard to raise this year’s sales to 400,000 units as recorded lastyear since the average monthly sales stood at only 20,000 units per month duringthe January-September period, as compared with 33,000 units last year./.