Tons of new cars are sold every year in Southeast Asian countries like Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia. Those markets have traditionally been ignored by German and US car manufacturers, but Japanese brands such as Toyota, Honda, Nissan, and Mitsubishi have feasted on sales in those countries for decades. Lately, however, Chinese brands have stolen a march on the Japanese brands. BYD, which only started selling cars in Indonesia in July of this year, is already the sixth best selling car company in that country, thanks to the popularity of its Seal battery electric hatchback which starts at around $40,000.
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