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First Rolls-Royce hits Vietnam roads

he chairman of Khaisilk, Hoang Khai, has bought Vietnam’s first Rolls-Royce car with the tab including tax estimated at above US$600,000. The used, 2006-model Phantom, imported by Hoang Trong Ltd. last month, is a four-door sedan equipped with a 453hp, 6.75-liter cylinder V12 engine and six gears.

Quoted on Yahoo at $328,750, in Vietnam it attracted an additional 70 percent import tax, 50 percent luxury tax, and 10 percent value-added tax. Several buyers in Ho Chi Minh City were interested in the car but Khai offered the highest price which was, however, not disclosed. Hoang Trong Ltd. said a Vietnam businessman had placed an order for a Rolls-Royce Phantom manufactured this year.

By Hoang Uy - Tuoi Tre - September 18, 2007.