The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Japanese reconditioned cars worth Tk 50 crore were sold at the three-day 'BARVIDA Car Expo' that ended at Basundhara Convention Centre in the city on Saturday.

The exhibition began on Thursday and a large number of visitors visited the exposition on Friday and Saturday. As overwhelming number of visitors visited the exposition, some 20,000 printed tickets were exhausted. Finally, visitors were allowed to enter without tickets.

During the three-day exposition, 458 units of different brands of cars were sold on the spot and orders as much as three times more than the spot sales were received. 'Toyota Probox' brand of cars was the highest selling vehicles at the exposition and its prices range between Tk 6.40 lakh and Tk 6.70 lakh. Cars which were in good position in the selling list were Toyota Corolla, Toyota Allion, Toyota Premio, etc. There are some 500 members of BARVIDA in the country, and 23 of them took part in the exposition. Some members took more than one stalls. At the exposition there were pavilions of lubricants manufacturing companies, tyre importers, banks offering car loans, insurance companies, CNG conversion companies and food pavilions.

A large number of buyers thronged the exposition as attractive discounts were provided there and they were busy to purchase the cars of their choices. Unprecedented responses were received from the buyers as they got opportunities to buy the cars of their choices at the exhibition.

The visitors also felt the necessity of organizing such expositions frequently.

Visitors also showed keen interest about microbuses. But the price of a single microbus has increased by Tk 4 lakh to Tk 5 lakh because of 60 per cent supplementary duty imposed in the current year's national budget. In spite of huge demand, businessmen could not supply adequate number of microbuses at the exposition as the import of microbuses has gone down.

The exposition was ended through distribution of certificates among the participants of the 'BARVIDA Car Export-2008' by BARVIDA president Abdul Huque and secretary general Md Abdul Hamid Sharif.