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How Vietnam feels about imported Chinese cars: insights from local media

Imported electric vehicles from China are struggling to sell in Vietnam because “Vietnamese consumers don’t favour Chinese products”, according to an article in VietnamNet

They are not big fans of traditional vehicles from China either.

“The internal combustion engines of Chinese manufacturers are unreliable, lack durability, and consume too much fuel, they believe,” the publication says.

Furthermore, problems for China’s EV makers in overseas markets are causing concern among Vietnamese consumers.

“…Recent information about quality problems of BYD’s EV exports to Europe, when they could not get customs clearance, are causing potential Vietnamese buyers of low-cost Chinese cars to rethink their decision.”

Of note, it’s not clear how the author of this article drew these conclusions with no sources listed and it reads a lot more like an opinion piece than hard news. These observations, however, could just as easily be applied to consumers in developed markets of Vietnamese electric vehicles–see: Vietnam’s VinFast runs into more trouble in the US over unpaid rent

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