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HCM CITY (Biz Hub) — Eighteen leading automobile brands will take part in the biggest ever motor show in Viet Nam – the 2016 Viet Nam International Motorshow – to be held in HCM City next month.

The show follows the first ever event in 2015, which was very successful with the participation of nine automobile importers and attracting more than 70,000 visitors.

One hundred and fifty models from 18 brands -- Audi, Bentley, BMW, Motorrad, Infiniti, Jaguar, Lamborghini, Land Rover, Maserati, Mercedes-Benz, Mini, Nissan, Porsch, Renault, Subaru, Suzuki, UD Trucks, and Volkswagen -- would be on display, Laurent Genet, general director of Audi Vietnam and a spokesperson for the organisers, said.

He added that passenger cars, which account for 60 per cent of the Vietnamese market, would be the focus of the show.

The exhibition this year will see the return to Viet Nam of popular Russian brand Ulyanovsky Avtomobilny Zavod (UAZ).

The show, from October 26 to 30, is expected to welcome 120,000 visitors. To attract more visitors, it will remain open until 8pm daily.

The 2016 Viet Nam International Motorshow comes amid impressive growth in the country's automobile market. In the first eight months of the year over 183,000 new imported and locally assembled cars were sold, an increase of over 30 per cent year-on-year.

The expo will be held at the Sai Gon Exhibition and Convention Centre in District 7 of HCM City. — VNS