Malaysia overtakes Thailand as South-East Asia’s second-biggest auto market

BANGKOK/KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama-VNA): Malaysia has overtaken Thailand to become South-East Asia’s second-largest auto market, after Indonesia, a major shift in a region that has become a key battleground for Asian automakers, Japan’s Nikkei Asia online newspaper reported.

It compiled sales data released by industry groups in those three countries plus the Philippines and Vietnam and found that Malaysia’s sales figures, which had been third for a long time,…