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The Bangkok Post
The Bangkok Post
The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic may have prevented any growth in the Thai automobile market in 2021, but there has been a good number of interesting automotive developments that took place this year. Automobile sales peaked in Thailand at 1.25 million vehicles back in 2012 as a result of the First Car Buyer scheme launched by the Yingluck Shinawatra government, but sales have never reached that level again, with less than 800,000 new vehicles finding owners in 2020. According to the Kasikorn Research Center, the initial wave of Covid-19 in Thailand (April 2021), with all its severities, has crea…