I could not believe my eyes when I saw the headline from the Web site of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The headline read:
"Mercedes Benz Leads Vietnam Auto Sales Growth". According to Mercedes-Benz Vietnam (MBV) office, the sales of Mercedes-Benz in Vietnam rose 70 percent last year despite a horrible economic slowdown.
The cost of the standard option Mercedes Benz is about $100,000 U.S. dollars or higher. Aside from the actual cost of the car, the owner of a brand new Mercedes Benz has to pay an additional 70 percent tax on imported cars and parts. However, the sales of luxury foreign cars such as Mercedes Benz did not drop in Vietnam, instead it rose 70 percent last year.
Overall, sales of Mercedes Benz rose to 2,119 units, led by 1,146 units of the 16-seat Sprinter van. The average Vietnamese, if he was lucky to have a job, earned less than $600 U.S. dollars a year, even if an average Vietnamese work for over 100 years without spending his salary on food and other essentials, he still could not afford to buy a Benz, so who bought all these luxury automobiles in Vietnam ? I'll give you a hint, look at what cars the Vietnamese officials and their children is driving. Never in the 5,000 history of Vietnam has any government been so corrupt as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Never in Vietnamese history has the gap between the rich and poor been so wide as it is today.
The government officials in Vietnam and members of the Vietnamese Communist Party often calls themselves "servants of the people", it's funny how all the socialists "servants" lives the life of the rich and infamous while their "masters", the people of Vietnam wallow in poverty.
source:
http://vibforum.vcci.com.vn/news_detail.asp?news_id=15265
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