Sime Darby Bhd unit Inokom Corp Sdn Bhd will be investing a total sum of RM 10 million on a new assembly line for the Hyundai Mighty, Hyundai’s best selling commercial vehicle. The 5 tonne truck will be produced at Inokom’s plant in Kulim, Kedah in early 2007. A technical license agreement was signed between Inokom and Hyundai on August 29 2006. The Hyundai Mighty is a mid-sized 5 tonne truck with a 3.9 litre intercooled turbodiesel engine. Inokom’s current Lorimas model is a one and a half tonne truck.
The addition of the Hyundai Mighty will bring Inokom’s vehicle count up to 4, with current models being assembled include the Inokom Lorimas pick-up, the Inokom Atos Prima based on the Hyundai Atoz and the Inokom Matrix based on the Hyundai Matrix. There is also an Inokom Getz expected to join the line-up soon, a rebadged version of the popular supermini which even got into Jeremy Clarkson’s good books, somewhat.
After dabbling for years in the IT industry, Paul Tan initially began this site as a general blog covering various topics of personal interest. With an increasing number of readers paying rapt attention to the motoring stories, one thing led to another and the rest, as they say, is history. An avid electronic gadget aficionado as well as big-time coffee lover, he's also the executive producer of the Driven motoring TV programme.
5 tonne trunck ?
yucks !
inokom knows their stuff well, tapping into the right segment
REBADGED! Sigh!!! The Malaysian automotive industry is in a sad disarray.
Inokom should start producing tanks & armoured personal truck for M'sia future securtiy.
eyyy, its a purely commercial vehicle la. Most of the people wont consider buying it la.
And the commercial side surely need plenty of 5 tons truck, like High 5 also delivering their bread in vehicle of this class. Inokom is doing a reasonable move.
dear avanza, it's not rebadged lah.. the Mighty is gonna carry the hyundai badge, inokom is only assembling/manufacturing/producing (whatever u wanna call it) it ok. kita tukang pasang saja, which opens the way for more new commercial vehicles into msia.