"Kar Wai Wong" (kingawesome467)
11/08/2020 at 12:02 • Filed to: unfinished drafts, VinFast, Vietnam, startup
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"Kar Wai Wong" (kingawesome467)
11/08/2020 at 12:02 • Filed to: unfinished drafts, VinFast, Vietnam, startup | 2
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!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! has been posting their !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , I thought I’d join in with a few drafts I wasn’t planning on posting anyways. This one has been around 70-ish% completed for quite a while. I started this in November 2018, expect typos , inaccuracies and incomplete sections. It would probably be a little different were I to write it again today.
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VinFast is the product of the VinGroup, a massive Vietnamese conglomerate that is EVERYWHERE in Vietnam, with it’s multitude of companies beginning with Vin. VinCity real estate, VinFa pharmaceuticals, VinEco agriculture, VinUni universitys. However as far as I know this is their first proper shot at manufacturing goods, along with VSmart phones.
While Chevrolet and Isuzu manufacture vehicles there, Indigenous Vietnamese brands have been pitifully minor, pretty much all trucks or buses companies. There’s !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! buses, and !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! has a pretty large selection of trucks.
There was also Vinaxuki, which with that name, you’d think would’ve been part of the VinGroup, but I couldn’t find anything to corroborate that. Along with various trucks, they also sold a midsize pickup. But that’s it. Not exactly exciting stuff.
VinFast decided to head out of the gate running, unveiling two good-looking, although a little generic premium models at the 2018 Paris Motor Show of all places.
Don’t worry about the licence plates, the car isn’t named the VinFast Sedan, why would they give it such a mind-numbingly boring name like that? Instead it’s called the Lux A2.0... See, so much more distinctive!
And this is the VinFast Lux SA2.0. They’re based of the underpinnings of the F10 5-Series and the F15 X5 respectively, with new Pininfarina styled designs, although they’re using modified versions of the old BMW N20 straight 4s.
The interiors are nearly identical, here’s the saloon.
They’re coming out this March, and they’ve also announced the Lux V8, essentially a luxury V8 powered (wow really?) Lux SA2.0.
Despite those awful names, they seem to have a different naming scheme for their, more mainstream models?
Vinfast have bought the tooling for the Opel Karl/Vauxhall Viva (specifically the Rocks “crossover” version) and branded it the Fadil. And I can’t help but be reminded of the old Vauxhall V grilles when I see it, which by the way, the Fadil’s grille was restyled from the original by Italdesign. Yeesh, you could’ve saved some money there, it’s not exactly what you call a groundbreaking difference!
But they’re not going constrained to just cars, they’re also bringing out an electric scooter called the Klara. I couldn’t find anything to show that this is based off any existing bike, so I’m assuming it’s wholly original. Personally I like the consistent brand identity with the bike and the cars with the arrow shaped the lights (Although the asymmetric trim in the grille doesn’t seem to be represented). I don’t know about you, but when I see a BMW bike, I don’t really think of BMW. (Yeah I know there’s not much you can do. I don’t think the kidney grilles can fit.)
They have plans for a new small hatchback,
and a very similar looking electric car, along with an electric bus, and have taken over GM’s Vietnamese operations, along with the development of a Spark based city car (Although I couldn’t find if that’s meant to be the Fadil). Overall they have big plans
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When this was written there was little Western news coverage about VinFast, I think just !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , so I thought I’d “bestow upon myself to spread the word”. But I’m not great at any journalistic news type writing, so I struggled to finish it. Few months later with no progress, more outlets caught on about VinFast, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , so I canned it.
Since than they’ve released two more electric scooters, the Impes and Ludo. And turns out the Lux V8 was a concept, it just entered production as the President, which should really be the name of the entire model range.
I don’t know how successful VinFast is today, like what their sales and brand perception is like, but it doesn’t look like a flop. I also later found out that BMW in fact !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ! I’m not sure if it was intentional or not though, but it seems like it.
HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
> Kar Wai Wong
11/08/2020 at 12:07 |
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I really like the idea of an electric scooter something comparable to a 125 with 75-100 miles range would be perfect
Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
> Kar Wai Wong
11/08/2020 at 12:17 |
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What about the optional bottles of wine? With a name like Vinfast, you NEED to also sell wine...
Manny05x
> Kar Wai Wong
11/08/2020 at 12:51 |
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VinFast sounds like a really good name to a Carfax competitor. An app called Vinfast to check a vin would get my attention.
SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
> Kar Wai Wong
11/08/2020 at 16:16 |
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Vinfast have purchased the Lang Lang Proving Ground and engineering hub west of Melbourne, Australia from GM Holden...
gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
> Kar Wai Wong
11/08/2020 at 21:54 |
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This looks a decade old wihtout a bat shit grill
I love it
pip bip - choose Corrour
> Kar Wai Wong
11/09/2020 at 06:58 |
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VinFast have purchased the old Holden proving grounds in Australia too at Lang Lang and also employ a bunch of ex-Holden engineers too