Thaco opens smart truck, bus showroom in city
The Truong Hai Automobile Joint Stock Company (Thaco) officially opened its 1st smart truck and bus showroom and service centre in Da Nang, offering convenient facilities for customers in the central region.
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| A bus is checked at a service centre of Truong Hai automobile company (Photo: VNS) |
In his remarks at the opening ceremony on Sunday, Thaco Chairman Tran Ba Duong said that the centre would serve as an example for its mass development of smart showrooms in 40 provinces and cities nationwide by 2020.
The Da Nang showroom and service centre, which was built in Hoa Vang District on a 2.6ha area with total investment of 142 billion VND (6.3 million USD), provides maintenance services using advanced technology for 200 buses and trucks each day.
“The centre – Thaco’s 1st of its kind in Viet Nam – aims to offer a comprehensive service for bus and truck models that Thaco has sold to customers in Viet Nam. We also build trust and guarantee top service amongst our agents and car users in nationwide,” Duong said.
“We offer services to locally made brands Foton, Fuso and Thaco bus in central Viet Nam, and Thaco plans to invest 6 trillion VND (265 million USD) in the development of service centres through out Viet Nam in 2020,” he said.
He added that Thaco has developed 100 showrooms and 60 authorised agents in total in 63 provinces and cites nationwide.
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| Cutting the ribbon at the inauguration ceremony (Photo: VNS) |
According to the latest report, the local car maker sold nearly 90,000 cars in 2017, claiming 40% market share of automobiles in Viet Nam.
Last year, Thaco launched the first made-in-Việt Nam bus factory at Quang Nam Province’s Chu Lai-Truong Hai Industrial Complex with a capacity of 20,000 buses and minibuses a year, mostly for export.
The Quang Nam-based auto maker has also developed a supporting industry zone with 24 plants producing spare parts and accessories for local use and export.
Thaco, in co-operation with Japan’s Mazda Motor Corporation, has developed a new Mazda factory – the second such Mazda facility in Quang Nam Province, with a total investment of 380 million USD.
Thaco currently assembles and distributes South Korea’s Kia, Japan’s Mazda, France’s Peugeot and BMW models.
(Source: VNS/ DA NANG Today)