Peugeot Django scooters (Photo: qdnd.vn) Quang Nam (VNA) – Truong Hai Auto Joint Stock Company (Thaco), andFrench automotive manufacturer Peugeot recently announced their strategiccooperation in motorcycle manufacturing for domestic distribution and export.
Peugeot Django scooter is the first product that marks a milestone in thestrategic and comprehensive collaboration between the two sides.
Thaco has carried out study, and built a European-standardmotorcycle manufacturing and assembling plant at Thaco Chu Lai Mechanical andAutomotive Industrial Park in Quang Nam province.
R&D activities have been promoted since the company targets to mastermanufacturing technologies and increase local sourcing to over 40 percent so asto be able to export to the ASEAN bloc.
Thaco and Peugeot eye to ship some 30,000 Django scooters to ASEAN and othermarkets by 2030. The scooters will be sold in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia,the Philippines and China’s Taiwan next year.
Peugeot has been present in Vietnam for over 100 years. In 2013, Thaco and theFrench car company reached a deal that enabled Thaco to assemble and distributePeugeot cars in the Vietnamese market.
Peugeot showrooms in Vietnam arebuilt to its global standard in prime locations to provide customers withmaximum convenience and European-class products and services. Thaco is nowrunning 35 showrooms and service shops providing after-sale service for Peugeotpassenger cars and motorcycles./.
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