TCIE Viet Nam Co, Ltd has sold 1,375 local-assembled Nissan Sunny cars in the domestic market till November this year. — VNS Photos Cong Thanh

DA NANG (Biz Hub) — TCIE Viet Nam Co. Ltd has sold 1,375 locally-assembled Nissan Sunny cars in the domestic market since November this year.

Company officials also reported that 912 of these cars were sold in the northern region.

The company, part of Malaysia's Tan Chong Motor Group, started operations in its factory in the Hoa Khanh industrial zone in Da Nang's Lien Chieu District in 2013 with a total investment of US$40million.

The Da Nang-based automobile plant has provided the domestic market with two sedan models – the Nissan Sunny XV Automatic Transmission and XL Manual Transmission – with 2,000 units manufactured during the first year.

The factory is the first and only Nissan Sunny assembly plant in central Viet Nam, with an annual capacity of 6,500 vehicles.

According to TCiE, the Nissan Sunny XL Manual Transmission model accounted for 60 per cent of sales in the first 11 months of 2015.

TCiE also announced that Ho Wah Juan is the newly appointed chairman and began managing the Da Nang-based automobile plant in 2015. — VNS