The company’s GeneralDirector Pham Van Dung said the automaker’s sales maintained its growth thanksto leading products, particularly sport utility vehicles (SUVs) and commercialones, despite a period of business stagnation in the domestic auto market andadverse impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In Q1, Ford Vietnam’ssales of Everest SUVs recorded a year-on-year surge of 49 percent, with 1,459vehicles sold. In March alone, the number of delivered vehicles hit 817,leading the mid-size SUV segment with more than 50 percent of the market share.
In addition, Ford Rangermaintained its lead among the country’s pickups, accounting for nearly 75percent of the market. Some 2,170 cars sold in March brought the total count to3,873 in Q1, doubling the figure of the same period last year.
The sales of FordTransit continued to come first among commercial vehicles, posting ayear-on-year rise of 33 percent in March and bringing the figure since thestart of the year to 184./.