Pininfarina To Design Vietnamese Car

Pininfarina will help to develop a sedan and SUV for VinFast, which aims to be Vietnam’s first domestic automaker.

VinFast is targeting production of 500,000 vehicles by 2025 after an initial output of between 100,000 and 200,000.

The automaker’s plant will be based in the northern port city of Haiphong and will eventually build minicars, electric cars and motorbikes as well as sedans and SUVs, the company has said. In September, VinFast said it had begun construction of the plant as part of a project worth USD1 billion to USD1.5 billion in the first phase. It said then that it planned to buy blueprints of car engines and main mechanical systems from top European and American designers. Vinfast is part of Vietnam’s leading property developer, Vingroup.