New car brand made its debut on the market two models during the international exhibition in Paris. The Vietnamese have invested about two billion $ to create two models of cars, and the construction of the plant for their assembly. According to the latest reports the new sedan and SUV will be available for purchase as early as 2019 year.
team InterTeam, Visit the city Hajfongu, in which the plant is built VinFast immediately realized, that deals with serious investments. The company clearly intends to capture not only the Vietnamese, but also to other markets. We won the opportunity to be among the first ones, who were able to visit the factory still under construction.
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Mark VinFast belongs Vingroup anonymous financial group, which is a major player in South East Asia, а во Вьетнаме – крупнейшая частная компания.
Managing Director of the automotive grade VinFast is James De Luca, American, who last worked at General Motors. Responsible for the production of Australian Sean Calvert, and for design - David Lyon. Both, how De Luca, previously worked in GM's, which, in turn, closed a few years ago, Chevrolet plant in Vietnam.
VinFast – по лицензии BMW
As it has been said before, Vietnamese are planning to release two models of cars. In fact we have to deal with modified sedan BMW 5 Series and SUV BMW X5. Both will be available in 2019 year. In subsequent years, planned work on from designing:
- budget city car with a three-cylinder engine, based on the Chevrolet Spark platform;
- compact electric scooter;
- electric bus.
German corporations release their cars about every four years, that is how much time it takes to designers, designers and other specialists to create vehicle. the Vietnamese also, I did not want to spend so much time, so we decided to sign a license agreement with BMW for the production of cars using their platforms and engines. Apparently the first two cars will be based on the previous generation platform BMW 5-series and X5.
Under sedan hood and SUV is installed K20 liter gasoline engine in the power of two embodiments 175 and 230 HP. Vietnamese simplify its structure, replacing traditional Valvetronic valve control system.
Although the models can see the outlines of BMW cars, David Lyons made sure, VinFast to different original style. The elegant interior, we find a vertical multimedia screen with a diagonal 10 inches, in Volvo.
