Nearly 18,000 cars were sold in the domestic market during May 2015, down one %from the previous month, but up 47.69% from May last year.

The Vietnamese car manufacturing company Thaco led the market with 6,603 cars sold. Toyota came in second with 3,880 cars and Ford Vietnam sold only 1,747 cars during the period.

The sales of commercial cars in May reached 7,796 units, up five percent, and tourism cars 8,946 units, down 5.1%. Specialised cars hit 1,179 units, down 10% from the previous month.

The number of cars assembled in the country was 14,032, a 0.4 %increase. Viet Nam imported 3,889 cars, down 7% from April.

Total sales of the sector in the first five months of this year reached 84,806 cars, surging 58% from the same period last year. Of the figure, tourism cars rushed 88 %and commercial cars rocketed 103%.

(Source: VNA)