Astra sells 2,536 vehicles

JAKARTA (JP): PT Toyota Astra Motor, a unit of PT Astra International, announced yesterday it sold 2,536 vehicles last month.

The company said its March sales represented a 20 percent increase over February sales of 2,109 vehicles but a 68 percent drop from March sales last year, which stood at 7,928.

It said its Toyota Kijang multipurpose van was the largest contributor to sales. In March this year, 2,337 Kijang were sold compared to 6,293 Kijang sold in March 1997.

The company also exported 101 complete-knockdown Kijang in March compared to 34 Kijang in March last year.