The Thai Automotive Industry Association says car production last month rose by 13,% but sales in local market dropped. The automotive club chairman of the committee on public relations Mr.Surapong Paisitpattanapong said automobile productions in August stood at 159,000 units, an increase of about 13 percent from the same period in the previous year. He said that total vehicle productions in the past eight months currently stands at 1.26 million cars, 780,000 of which have already been exported. He was confident that the target export of 1.2 million vehicles this year should be achieved as planned. However he pointed out that domestic automotive sales remained low in the month of August, or 9.9 percent lower than last year’s figure during the same period. He said that the targeted vehicle sales of at least 800,000 cars domestically for the year, would probably be missed.