Toyota imports Yaris from Thailand

Toyota Motor Vietnam Co. Ltd (TMV) on Tuesday launched the five-seat hatchback Yaris car imported from neighboring Thailand.

Yaris is distributed as a completely built-up vehicle imported from Thailand in TMV’s dealer network nationwide at a price of VND658 million per unit, including VAT.

Toyota Yaris’ Inline-4 is equipped with a 1.5 liter engine, which consumes 4.3 liters per 100 km on combined road. The Yaris AT 1.5 comes with three colors – silver metallic, medium silver metallic, and super red.

Akito Tachibana, president of TMV, said at the launching ceremony in HCMC on Tuesday that the import of the new car was to survey the local market only, and that this car would be assembled in Vietnam when 500 units are consumed in the local market each month.

He said it was difficult to produce the new car now as its factory in the northern province of Vinh Phuc was already running at full capacity.

Yaris buyers will be entitled to a warranty of three years or 100,000 km maintenance and other customer services in TMV’s dealer network.

The company targets to sell 120 Yaris cars per month.

Imported into Vietnam in 2007 by other companies, Yaris has since become a favorite of young people and its accumulated sales had reached over 6,000 units by end-2010.

Many auto companies in the country now prefer to import cars, especially from ASEAN, to enjoy low tariffs under the new tax regulation.

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Posted by VBN on Mar 17 2011. Filed under Automotive. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry