A poor father builds a car to take his children to school and the Vietnamese people’s ‘craving’ for cars

On December 16, a photo spread on Facebook of a father creating his own car from a motorbike to protect his children from the sun and rain while going to school in Dung town, Thanh Chuong, Nghe An.

This car uses a motorbike engine and can move forward and backward.

Mr. Son, the owner of the car, said: `After reading the newspaper for a long time, I knew that my creation was against the law.

A car is built from a motorbike.

Also with a passion for cars, a person in Cua Lo, Nghe An built an electric car with a production cost of only 35 million, another person assembled a car from a 3-wheeled vehicle engine… There are many people who have and

If we try to search for car manufacturing in Vietnam on the Google search page, it is not difficult to see tens of thousands of results.

A car in Vietnam is subject to 3 types of taxes and 7 types of fees, car buyers have to pay 2.5 times more than in a developed country like the US, while income in Vietnam is 28 times lower than in the US.

Looking at Indonesia, 5 years ago, their goal was to bring people with an average income to own a car.

In Thailand, the government does not encourage restrictions on cars, instead they will use the revenue from cars to solve traffic congestion problems such as building skytrains and subways.

As for Vietnam, the auto industry started to develop in 1995 but currently only stops at assembly, low localization rate with simple components… So why not reduce taxes to make buying cars easier?

Owning a car is an inevitable trend of development. Having a car now is not a show off of wealth but a convenience for daily work.

Why is the dream of owning a car, a common means of transportation, safe and sheltered from the sun and rain, so far-fetched for many Vietnamese people?

>> See more: Electric car made in Vietnam costs 35 million in Nghe An

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Wanting to develop the auto industry without letting people buy cars is unthinkable. It’s like stepping on the accelerator with one foot and the other on the brake.

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