{"id":17581,"date":"2014-06-30T23:29:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T15:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=17581"},"modified":"2014-08-28T23:54:40","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T15:54:40","slug":"phl-posts-fastest-growth-in-motor-vehicle-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/30\/phl-posts-fastest-growth-in-motor-vehicle-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Phl posts fastest growth in motor vehicle sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17625\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17625\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/cars.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17625\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/cars.jpg\" alt=\"Wikipedia Photo\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17625\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Among the countries in the Southeast Asian region, the Philippines posted the fastest growth in terms of motor vehicle sales from January to May.<\/p>\n<p>From the total of 72,988 units of vehicles sold \u00a0in the same period last year, the country&#8217;s sales in motor vehicles increased by 22.4 percent reaching a total of\u00a0<span>\u00a089,335 units, according to a data from the\u00a0\u00a0Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)\u00a0 Automotive Federation (AAF).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Amid the Filipino&#8217;s strong demand for cars, the country&#8217;s sales became the highest in the region soaring higher than\u00a0<span>Vietnam\u2019s 19.6 percent, Singapore\u2019s 18.7 percent, Indonesia\u2019s 6.8 percent and Malaysia\u2019s 5.7 percent during the same five-month period.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>While countries like\u00a0<span>Thailand and Brunei posted year-on-year declines in motor vehicle sales of 42.2 percent and 0.4 percent, respectively, the Philippines posted the highest car sales compared with other countries in the Southeast Asia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It also had the highest increase rate in terms of motorcycle and scooter sales with rates climbing to\u00a0<span>13.3 percent to 321,386 units as of end-May from 283,769 units in the comparable period in 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s motor vehicle output growing<span>\u00a0by 14.3 percent to reach 34,561 units,<\/span> keeps increasing ahead of\u00a0Indonesia\u2019s 13.6 percent, Malaysia\u2019s 8.3 percent and Thailand\u2019s -29.5 percent.\u00a0The figure, however is only behind Vietnam&#8217;s 31 percent.<\/p>\n<p><em>With reports from Philippine Star<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Among the countries in the Southeast Asian region, the Philippines posted the fastest growth in terms of motor &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":17625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,19],"tags":[4634,6198,6160],"class_list":["post-17581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-business","tag-cars","tag-fastest-in-sea","tag-phl","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}