Comments on: Naza Suria – locally assembled Kia Picanto

By: otai

otai — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:55:00 +0000

naza suria price has reduced

By: kay

kay — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:22:38 +0000

1.1 o_O” how fast this car can go? i mean in standard mode

By: Jith

Jith — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:16:32 +0000

Is Naza Suria a good buy compared to Viva ?

By: nizam73

nizam73 — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:14:11 +0000

copy & paste care model… just changed top mark???? how could become national cars??? ha ha ha…. quality same like china car maker.. Sutra… I still LOVE PROTON… Malaysian designed… no copy…..

By: haroldz

haroldz — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:52:12 +0000

miracle said,

December 30, 2006 @ 2:59 am

i like the car but from what i heard,naza cars consume lots of fuel.anyone has any idea whether is that true?

naza ria consume alot of fuel.
dat wot i read from this blog.
just search nor naza cars.
see wot the bloggers’ comment.
any1 test drive tis suria?

By: miracle

miracle — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 18:59:49 +0000

i like the car but from what i heard,naza cars consume lots of fuel.anyone has any idea whether is that true?

By: aini

aini — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 03:45:43 +0000

i juzt book a suria..n mayB my suria will come to me by next week..i don’t know how to say..tapii kn….the 1st time look at suria tu..i dah ter tawan teramat sgt dh..even i hear some coments from my fren about it..ishhhhh..dh tak peduli dhh…suria ..is cute 4 meee…

By: xfresh

xfresh — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:37:07 +0000

P2 MyVi rebadged from toyota/daihatsu???? no la guys, dont say like that…i’m one of the person involved in the project….it started few years back when a group of our own malaysian R&D people went to japan to design on a new compact car together with toyota guys and daihatsu. then you guys might asked why passo or boon launched earlier than myvi? the answers is…VENDOR…our vendor were not in the same capability as toyota/daihatsu counterpart in japan..P2 was struggling to find the right vendors for this project…..so when we launch out late, people tend to called it rebadged..it was not actually..it was what we called simultenous engineering or SE..our local engineers ideas were on that car..pls give a credit to them..

By: maibatsu_thunder

maibatsu_thunder — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 04:44:42 +0000

Perodua same what, just rebadge, change cosmetic a bit from Daihatsu but no one complains. Anyway, bottom line is bring more competition. Inokom Hyundai, Naza Kia, Naza Peugeot, Perodua Daihatsu … WHATEVER lah. Bottom line is Malaysian citizens get more choice, not such a captive market. Badge you yourself can change back to Hyundai, Kia, Peugeot, Daihatsu later what … just buy from Brothers.

By: zaidan

zaidan — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 04:10:28 +0000

NAZA just don’t have their own identity. They were copycat. No point giving national car status to them.

By: Akazamabamaboo

Akazamabamaboo — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 03:42:15 +0000

Keep it up Naza! Hehe…silly tail-lamp extensions…I would get rid of that as soon as I get my Suria delivered…

By: zanggief

zanggief — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 03:35:25 +0000

why they assembled now????
this may affect d previous sutera….but korean1 betterla…
d chinese model 1(sutera) no good…
is tat d rio sedan will b d latest 1.5 model????

By: mrsakit

mrsakit — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:01:21 +0000

NAZA has fully paid royalty for KIA Licensing that can change the name/brand of any KIA product. So that’s mean, no specialist engineer in NAZA staff including designer. Then, sell it to up the NAZA name. Malaysian citizen looking for lower price. But this model is not worth it only 1.1cc almost 50k.
I don’t think so the petrol will save because the body part is heavy that the engine cannot afford to bring up the body. Why NAZA choose KIA, because of cheaps and no current technology such as VTEC, MIVEC, VVTI and so on. NAZA was selling the PUG206 but the selling is going down. Peugeot is the high quality of euro kar that NAZA scared to bring the lower priced. NAZA Sutra is the compact car but the engine was made in china. It is not guarantee for the long term asset. This kind of business which is not to target proton that the proton will let going down but they killing himself. NAZA is not concentrate of major quality as long as copy design and sell it as long as all people looking for the lower price. As a result, NAZA cannot be popularity because NAZA is not made the car only handsover from KIA and sell it to malaysia and change the NAZA name. That’s why NAZA cannot send to his any model to any competition car at euro, japan and USA. They scared if foreigner condemned to their product. Not like proton, they all comdemned the proton product except the proton satria more popular in euro. Atleast proton car have an award winning better than NAZA. Finally, NAZA staff is considerd lazy bump that their job only for rebadge and no challenging at work.

By: BrieCampro

BrieCampro — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:53:40 +0000

I own a citra. for me Naza?..,it’s much better than proton.. my gen2.. heh.. nice looking.. but krok krek sana sini belum umor setahun….

By: szw

szw — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 11:25:48 +0000

hows da quality ?

By: BrieCampro

BrieCampro — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 15:49:39 +0000

Go Naza..I don’t care about rebadge or patriotic or proton.. it’s only politicion joke.. what we need is a nice car with low price.. so we can used it and buy it with own money.. kami bukan korga latok z……………… nice move naza.

By: chrisbangle

chrisbangle — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 15:27:56 +0000

Naza is doing what the current government wants, which is to CKD all the cars sold locally.

The government also believes that the local market is strong enough to one day allow us to see CKD versions of Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Porsches and many other brands.

You need around 2-3k of sales volume to justify a CKD project. It is a big hint that the government wants Malaysians to pay for its dream as a motoring hub in its own region. The problem is, our market is still too small and car companies are not brave enough to straight-away CKD its new model here.

Whatever it is, Honda, Toyota and even the China corps are heading towards Thailand and Indonesia for their ASEAN car projects. Failing to see this will result in a closed market condition, which is what they claim will not happen with NAP.

I personally think NAP stands for nap..as in tidur.

By: carlover

carlover — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 11:37:58 +0000

well said – maibatsu_thunder.

We should all be thankful to companies like Naza and P2. As much as we hate rebadging, theres no other way Malaysians can afford such cars under the duty structure.

Love it or Hate it….this is the right way to go, especially since our market is SO SMALL.

By: justworld

justworld — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 07:16:37 +0000

I strongly agree with Indigo comments on the development with Myvi as a collaboration with Toyota & Daihatsu. For your info, Perodua is actually a sister company of UMW Toyota, where Toyota had 49% share in it.
Daihatsu on the other hand is also a subsidiary of Toyota and all part of Toyota Japan. There is a link between all 3 companies and Perodua is the local manufacturer for Toyota. Different market has different preference and Perodua was asked by Toyota to provide them the market situation in Malaysia to come out with the Myvi.

In the case of Naza, they are actually the local distributor of Kia models and the agreement currently is to locally manufacture Kia models to rebadge it as Naza’s product. Try & check the back of each Naza models, all bears “Licensed by Kia” and for Peugeot’s will be “Engineered by Peugeot”. Naza models would be exported to other countries but will retain back their original brand. This means that the main vendor (Kia or Peugeot) assigns Naza to source components locally and rebadge the vendor’s products to be sold or exported to reduce the cost of production or manufacturing costs. There are actually no input from Naza whatsoever to influence the specifications of the original models for the local market.

By: assimo

assimo — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 07:14:14 +0000

come on naza…we already going to year 2007 and you still rebadge car looks like come from 90’s model…..this is not a new car laaa…!

By: protonGL

protonGL — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 18:10:28 +0000

i think people reall love that RPM DIAL , reall can feel the rpm as their head turn along with the needle to read the number….5000 6000 7000 8000 snapppPP!!!…..
………………..really a neck breaking engine speed ,

By: thorrel

thorrel — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 17:43:49 +0000

Just some thoughts.
Correct me if i’m wrong.
P1 – was supposed produced 1.3 vehicles and above
P2 – was supposed to produced 1.3 vehicles and below
NAZA? – all kind of vehicles?

By: infinity

infinity — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 17:19:23 +0000

hey hey…the photo…the exterior not bad eh….but the interior a bit plain and outdated la…btw…i dun seems to c any exhaust pipe at the rear…

By: maibatsu_thunder

maibatsu_thunder — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:43:59 +0000

Indigo, where do you get this information? “Please bear in mind that the development of Myvi/Passo/Boon was parcipated by Perodua. Atleast they know that they are not good enough to develop and atleast they had tried. Please give me a break..Nazaâ€¦. ”

What makes you so sure, and how do you know Perodua didn’t just stick badges on, and what makes you think Naza didn’t commission some market studies and fed back to Kia Motors for the development of Picanto?

Jealousy and envy is always coloured green eh? Hehehehe!

By: Paul Tan

Paul Tan — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:40:12 +0000

pirate: yeah, unfortunately i dont know where else to get photos, so just scanned the newspaper.

By: calvin5189

calvin5189 — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:19:49 +0000

hey honda driver
naza suria=kia picanto
not kia rio

By: osh_kosh

osh_kosh — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 08:37:00 +0000

hmm… still to expensive 4 a small/campact ‘local’ car

By: u5

u5 — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 07:36:31 +0000

good move , again .. naza.! ur a real competition to proton, which is very good. rebadge more cars n sell it at a price on par with proton’s n perodua’s . in fact, price it even lower n u will have a bigger portion of the sales compared to our boastful local automotive industry.picanto might not be the best car, but its a stepping stone .

By: xg9

xg9 — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 05:11:55 +0000

chevrolet has closed down?

By: haroldz

haroldz — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 04:40:11 +0000

This wot naza is all about.
rebadge foreign cars n claim it as msian made car.
the price is cheaper but wot about the quality?
i read that our fellow bloogers have bad experience with naza sutere.
nyway, the 1st a few batch of new cars produced will encounter some problem.
so dun buy the car rite away after u c in 1st time.
i think naza released this car to encounter the new perodua kenari RS.
Any post about it paul?
just a change of bodykit.
the original picanto received good rating when it was released.
those of u who will receive annual bonus this year will have a great time deciding which car to buy…
hehehe