Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Indonesia International Motorshow (IIMS) 2007 held here from July 19 to 28, 2007 is expected to conclude a car sale transaction worth Rp1.005 trillion, the organizers said here on Thursday.
"We hope the car sales during the IIMS 2007, would exceed that of last year," organizing committee chairman Johnny Darmawan, who is also president director of PT Toyota Astra Motor (TAM), said on the sidelines of the IIMS.
He said that last year`s IIMS, held on July 21-30, sold 5,406 cars with a transaction value of Rp1.005 trillion.
Johnny expressed optimism that car sales in this year`s motorshow would exceed that of last year because the national car sales trend this year was significantly moving upward.
In the first semester of 2007 car sales increased 30 percent, reaching almost d 200 thousand units. In the same period last year, car sales only reached 150 thousand units.
"The IIMS is a momentum for us to expand our automotive market, much more as the market is rapidly growing," he added.
He hoped that the car sales would reach 39 thousand units up to July so that sales in August would reach 40 thousand units.
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