Second Finance Minister Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop says the government has not approved the voluntary car scrapping policy for cars over 15 years of age, as opposed to what The Edge reported previously.
“No, we have not approved such a proposal. The report is not correct. There may be some studies on this subject but at this point there is nothing,” he said.
The Edge reported that the policy would be announced by the time the new national budget is announced by mid-September, so there is still some time of slightly less than two months for it to happen.
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.
Yup for sure.. Now really not approve yet maa.. After next few months or after election bang! Scrap policies on! Fuel up 8 cents! hopefully car also cheaper by 2008.
Bullshit. In no time they’ll yet again use money taken from us citizens to be plonked into Proton to make sure the directors have enough $$$ to buy themselves Maseratis and Ferraris.
RM5000? And then Proton? Voluntary? Paid by Government?
Proton spent millions trying to re-brand themselves using advertising and marketing – which is good, then the government budget aside another possible billion to continue spoiling Proton’s image.
And in the end Malaysians are paying for it.
Proton had done too much of damage to Malaysia that I had to blame Mahathir’s parent’s for shagging that mystical night back in 1924.
not approve yet how come a lot of people already got angry
Well, they shud scrap NAP & the gov 1st, if they even think about it….
No way to approve such kind of BODOH policy in Malaysia.
Wait for another 100 years lah bro!
Dont really need this policy larr…proton is slowly improve recently. Just scrap NAP and current road tax structure….If still dont know how…refer UK
Malaysia have more bodoh policy than this.NAP, AP, etc. more worse than this. Speeding fine RM300, but sms while driving RM200, sure they say RM1.2k but then chagned to RM200. Which is more dangerous, sms while driving or speeding
thanks Mr. Yakcop… at least u realize tat wat is the status malaysia is… thanks!
why so confusing ?
Cool rite government haven’t approve but the papers could publish this news. Press very “Free”dom. “Malaysia aper pun boleh”
Something will happen after BN win the election again …. just wait and see
Malaysian always lupa he he ….. everything will go up except one thing … RAIN !!
seems The Edge cannot be trusted, i remember they also bullshitted us on the proton-vw news!
Really funny moment now…first approve than not approve.And from who the reporter from The Edge get source….Anyway,yes,that’s show how the politic’s “dirty”!
I don’t know.
Maybe the Edge got it wrong…maybe the Govn’t backtracked after the Edge report.
This close to election time, they will probably not do (or say) anything drastic. Trying to save thier butts.
After that, well, thats anyones guess.
Clap Clap.. Sure not approve punya.
Conspiracy!!!
just read everything with a pinch of salt la.
Isn’t it a known fact that you can’t believe everything you read in the media?
We shouldn’t complain, media are all the same everywhere in the world, as are politicians.
Why am I not surprised ? What the heck is going on ?
I think those entertainment magazine is more trustable…
The heck, people at The Edge ran out things to write about huh.
all joker.. LOL
THE EDGE………THE JOKERS………THE TABLOID……..BOYCOTT THE EGDE……..SUPPORT BONO, ADAM CLAYTON………
Sorry for being overboard on this the edge issue……..the point is, only 50-50 can percaya la the edge………esp Leela Barrock………
Thanks to the Minister for not approve this proposal!
To solve proton problems by scrapping old car will not help, proton problems should be solve from it’s root cause – that is inefficiency in the
business.
B4 the government even consider a car scrapping policy, shouldn’t they first ensure that the infrastructure to support such a policy is in place first?
There are many different components in a car, with different handling requirements. For example, the engine and gear box is filled with lubricants, that can easily spill and pollute the environment. The seats, door trim, dashboard etc has plastics, foam etc that will release toxic fumes if burned. Residual fuel in the tanks are a fire hazard.
Surely, they don’t expect our horrible ‘recycling yards’ and ‘kedai potongs’ to handle such high volume of old cars for scrap??
thats actually a plan yet to be approved by cabinet but why the money only can use to buy PROTON??
cannot buy Produa kah?
what are these top ppl thinking?????
Come on… be realistic.. can most msian afford to throw away something that was worth RM40,000 in average after 15 years ?
Some of us even still using (or having) those TV, cassette player, video player, table lamp, beds which are over 10 years old. These are a few hundred to thousand RM stuffs only, and we are still keeping them.
what are these top ppl thinking?????
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Thinking $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Is Proton really that pathetic? Doesn’t the government feel evil trying to do this? Don’t PEDA feel ashamed of themselves? Doesn’t MAA feel guilty supporting this evil scheme? Let us all get angry. Really, really angry.
agrees with mzfnd
Not scrap policy. Crap policy. I wonder where those makcik from MAA and EON’ pakcik get the wrong info. Hehehe.
Where got buy Proton only……??? The policy not even approved how come u say the policy is unfair……??? Read carefully before writing…….
hameed koyakuti said,
July 26, 2007 @ 8:48 am
Where got buy Proton only……??? The policy not even approved how come u say the policy is unfair……??? Read carefully before writing…….
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bro… you should read the previous thread…
—> http://paultan.org/archives/2007/07/24/the-edge-car-scrapping-policy-approved/#comments
it’s for PROTON car only… like some other forumer said.. fair huh?
yo osh_kosh
alreadi The Edge reported wrong.. said scrap policy approved, discussion aper pun takdak.. obviously crap news laaaa
plus.. scrap policy if approved pong, no one can actually force you into it. simpan la kreta lama you tu, who knows MTV’s Pimp My Ride actually turun kl.. my toyota startlet ’87 seriously need pimpin’ nih
wheregotcar,
yeah.. i know… scrap the crap (i.e those jokers)
go n ask those rich guys to scrap their 700k’s lexus, AMG 1million’s merc then c what happen>>>>hhahhahahah…not logiclah….only want to save the bankrupcies car company and sacrified the rakyat…..