日前,美国、欧洲和日本等汽车传统市场已快饱和,而东南亚国家汽车拥有量较少、制造成本较低,进而成为经济前景看好的新兴市场。福特公司预言,2005年东盟将继美、日及德之后, 成为全球第4大汽车市场,福特公司还预测,东南亚市场的汽车需求将从200 4年的170万辆增加到2014年的300 万辆左右,增幅超过76%。东盟汽车业良好发展前景得益于东盟汽车工业的自身优势。它主要表现为:东盟已奠定了汽车制造业基础,拥有一支水平较高 Recently, the traditional automobile markets in the United States, Europe and Japan are rapidly becoming saturated. While Southeast Asian countries have less automobile ownership and lower manufacturing costs, they have become emerging markets with promising economic prospects. Ford predicts ASEAN will become the world’s fourth-largest car market after the United States, Japan and Germany in 2005. Ford Motor Co. also predicts that car demand in Southeast Asia will increase from 1.7 million in 2004 to 3 million in 2014 Vehicles, an increase of more than 76%. The good development prospects of the ASEAN automobile industry benefit from the ASEAN auto industry’s own advantages. It mainly shows as follows: ASEAN has laid the foundation for automobile manufacturing and has a high level