1 ISSUE: 2021 No. 83 ISSN 2335-6677 RESEARCHERS AT ISEAS – YUSOF ISHAK INSTITUTE ANALYSE CURRENT EVENTS Singapore | 18 June 2021 Challenges Facing Vietnam’s Emerging Automobility Landscape Ivan V. Small* Workers walk past finished cars at the assembly plant of VinFast, Vietnam’s first homegrown car manufacturer in Haiphong on June 14, 2019. Photo: Manan VATSYAYANA, AFP. * Ivan V. Small is Visiting Senior Fellow at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute and a sociocultural anthropologist and Associate Professor at Central Connecticut State University.