I colour coded the list to show where brands historically originated. It's a protected market and Asian brands are in control. A couple of Euro models sneak in and the US is nowhere to be found. I separated Japan from the rest of Asia just to add some sort of comparison.
Having done so, Japanese brands are only now being threatened by Chinese and Korean brands. Wuling is owned by SAIC-GM-Wuling and started out in the early 1980s making vans.It was soon it assembling a Mitsubishi sourced van. It has obviously moved a long way from that and is assembling a range of vehicles here in Indonesia.
As we can see, unless vehicles are made here, there isn't any chance of having a meaningful presence so the numbers fall off dramatically and once below 40th position, don't even reach the 1,000 mark.
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