THACO's August sales increases 55 percent over same period last year

Mazda CX-5 had an impressive growth
Mazda sold 2,908 cars in August, up 86% year on year. Accordingly, Mazda3 still attracted the attention of customers with 913 vehicles, followed by Mazda2 with 423 cars sold. Especially, Mazda CX-5 scored with 1,012 vehicles sold, increasing 186% over last year. This impressive sales helped Mazda CX-5 stay in the first position in 5-seat CUV segment but also lead the Mazda car sales in Vietnam during August 2016.
KIA still did well with 3,005 cars sold in the rainy month, up 75% compared to last year. KIA Morning continues to be the all-time favorite with 1,330 cars sold. Being launched only 3 months ago, Cerato has obtained a certain position in the customers' hearts with 672 cars sold, followed by 392 KIA Rio cars.
Besides Mazda and KIA, in August, Peugeot also had positive progress with 37 cars sold, up 6 % compared to July.
Cumulatively, in the first 8 months of 2016, THACO passenger cars sales reached 40,144 vehicles, 71 %higher than 2015.
KIA sold 19,667 cars, Mazda 20,046 cars, and Peugeot 431 cars.
The fact that THACO's passenger cars sales are still stable in the rainy month - in which shopping spree is often limited due to Vietnamese beliefs is because that THACO had big incentives to the three brands KIA, Mazda, and Peugeot. At the same time, THACO also applied flexible payment methods for the 3 brands so that customers were able to deposit to receive incentives, then make the entire payment to receive the car after the rainy month.

Commercial vehicles sales went up 39 percent over the same period last year
In August 2016, THACO commercial vehicles sales reached 3,268 vehicles, 6 % higher than same period in 2015, including 306 buses and 2,962 trucks. During the first 8 months in 2016, there are 32,371 commercial vehicles sold, up 39 % compared to last year.
What maintains the stable sales of the commercial vehicles through the months is developing the products in accordance with the market, at the same time improving the competitiveness of the flagship vehicles by using modern technologies to enhance the products, produce quality ones to meet the demands of the customers.
THACO's cumulative sales in the first 8 months are 72,515 vehicles (40,144 passenger cars and 32,371 commercial vehicles), up 55 % compared to 2015.