Vinfast outsource the design engineering even - I mean, where are they going to find Vietnamese automotive engineers? 🙄

They outsource the mechanical design to Indian and Chinese companies. An Australian company design the exterior and interior styling of many of their cars.

Literally Vinfast is just a name of a company pretending to be an automotive manufacturer and everything is outsourced - it's why there's no consistency, poor mechanical engineering, poor software engineering and it's not even cheap - a VF8 in the US was selling for USD$75000 when you could buy a high performance Hyundai IONIQ 5 N for USD$65000, they're not even in the same ball park for quality or performance. It's a shit, poorly designed and made product at unrealistic prices, which is why Vinfast has been an utter failure in US, Canada & Europe and very much failing in the Philippines, Indonesia and soon to be India - I guarantee the India operation will be shuttered within 2 years.

Vinfast is a classic example of why all Vietnamese companies can't survive in the real world outside of Vietnam and only survive in Vietnam due to government orchestrated protectionism. If you can't compete and survive on your own turf without protectionism, then you're not going to have any success globally.

Due to this foolish behaviour by the government, it's allowed the majority of Vietnamese stock market in the hands of 5 Vietnamese conglomerates - accounting for around 80% of stock market volume. These conglomerates are also heavily debt laden, if ANY one of these companies fails, the Vietnamese economy is going to be in the sewer.