The Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) has revealed that a record 256,581 automobiles were produced in the country last month – the highest since car production began in 1961, reports the Thai News Agency.
This represents a year-on-year increase of 982.85% and a 1.75% increase from the month before. FTI spokesman Surapong Paisitpattanapong cited high demand after last year’s massive floods as a contributing factor.
161,768 of this record production number were sold in the country and the rest were exported, said Surapong. The spokesman also revealed that in the first 11 months of this year, Thailand’s auto production for domestic and export markets totalled 1.29 million and 941,351 units respectively.
Total Thai vehicle production is projected to hit some 2.45 million units by the end of the year, 2.5 million units next year and three million units by 2017, allowing the Kingdom to become one of the ten largest car producing nations in the world, added Surapong.
father of thai auto industry will be thanked by many again….
who is the father, i googled de no answer from wikipedia or CNN news…
The Tun la. On paper, theoretically our country can thrive way better than Thailand, the resources we have, the market we have, but NO.
Nak juga buat Proton. Nak juga buat AP king kayo atas angin.
he just be sarcastic
what no answer? Google is able to provide about 69,200,000 results in 0.35 second….
Good for the Thai economy I think and they didn’t need a national car to spur their vibrant industry
Thankyou, Dr.M!!!
Thanks to bapa Proton/ganja. Proton is just like selling drugs/ganja to the people, doing illegal business. It’s not a clean business if you know the people behind it, unfair competition, corruption, protectionism, and many more…
Do you wish to be the seller?
What selling ganja, it is selling Malaysian 3-series to our friends kaum-kaum Sabah & Sarawak. Wait for the results there in a few months time and you will believe me.
here we go again….lol
With 2.5 million units produced this year alone, imagine how many Thai youths received job opportunities in this industry.
Malaysia, with it’s national car program can only produce 600,000 units a year.
2.5 million and growing, seeing that they are exporting to emerging markets such as Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam and Indonesia, the volume with continue to increase.
Whereas Proton volume will be stagnant and other Asean countries will impose restriction on Malaysia for not respecting the Afta agreement as agreed.
I love you Dr.M, you are the best.
Can we please vote for the best PM in the history since 1957? It is him right? The Sarawakians and Sabahans say so, ya?
Wrong, Malaysia only built 200k vehicle and assemble another 300k with parts from Thailand, Korea, Germany etc.
do u think all p1 n p2 part come from bolehland?
All the unit is for own consumption. What the…
in bolehland who will fill those job? bangla? nepal? indon? malay/bumi? indian? chinese..i dont think so
dude, nothing to do with national car..because here also got other factory…klu u malas mmg x de kerja la..btw, nowadays robots are produce a car, not human..no need thanks now, go to indusrial training first.
Even they were hit badly by flood, but still able to attract more FDI in the car production sector than Malaysia.
just came back from bangkok.
the traffic congestion is getting worst, told by the cab driver that the worsen congestion contributed by the mass amount of production as most of the cars go to bangkok.
Besides hitting the production and sales target, they need to workout for the traffic control too.
We produce less car then the Thai, but our traffic in kelang valley is not good either. Malaysia should also look at the car industry and the traffic jam problem too.
Too much damage have been done by greedy hearts. Nothing works. You can wait and see. No need to mark my words.
Koceks kawans lebih penting daripada solutions.
Jimmy, I think you really hate Malaysia. Why not u just migrate to other country.
Bro..migrate to Thai @ Sing @ Phi @ Indo @ China….
Kopunkrub Dr M, that is how to create genuine job opportunities than feeding cronies only
my kancil replacement will come from Thai..Mitsubishi or Toyota
national pride vs doing something practical is our dileamma now. This is the ego of our politicians, We don’t need the tallest building, all we need a business framework that works… maybe our country should go back to the drawing board and start learning from the Thais, Singaporeans
With Malaysia capacity, rich resources and hardworking Malaysian. We can have tallest building, better business blueprint then any of our neighboring country. Look where we are now? Are we oil crust? Or we have bad government for 5 decades?
Do you thingk national pride & ego are the things in my mind? Good la you, I like you naive man. So you think I like tallest buildings, don’t you? Going back to drawing board and start learning from Thais, why should I? You think I don’t know what to do, is it?
We could be in Thai’s shoe should we not have indecisive n lopsided thingy…
Thailand invited Japanese and Western car makers to set up factories for the local market and export.
Malaysia went for the national auto policy and Proton and Perodua.
Who is better off now? Who is exporting cars by the millions and who is selling just a few thousand while losing money on exports?
The right question is, who is making more money? Who as in which crony?
Bapa proton is driving Porsche, anak proton is driving Bugatti. Anak Malaysia is driving junk.
By whatever means, as long as my ultimate aim is achieved. You may see better options, but this one surely benefits me the most. I cannot merompak Mat Salleh, I just need to merompak you, especially S & S, and it is enough already
Malaysia chinese people making more money….Sucks…DAP rasis…
You baru rasis! money comes to ppl who think smart and hard working, not the ppl who everyday just think of racist issue like u!!
Almost missed out. Thank you. Thank you very much for you support.
The devious old man install his son in MITI so
his policy will be continue.
After election next year, see if he is still in power or not.
Learn from the Thais. They do not need a national car project to excel in auto industry. That’s because they knew their own limitations and throved in different direction. In the end, the country becomes one of the top ten car producers and its people get to enjoy cheaper cars and ample choices. Bravo Thailand.
There are so many projects of ‘automatic pumping money into my koceks 1 x 60 x 60 x 24 x 365 x contracts without an expiry dates due to multiple extensions’.
So, the CURRENT GOV not going to do anything?
still so ARROGANT with the HIGH TAXATION eating own rakyat money and let go of BIG OPPORTUNITY?
Najib : “What big opportunity you are talking about?”
Thai has everything (in car industry) ahead of us, so make sure our only upper hand – Car Blog…and it’s comments bloom…
I would like to thank you very much. Thank you very much for you full heart full strength supports. Thank you.
but we are better in most other area
Most of creative corruption area, like creating more highway with toll, AES to simply give business to its own cronies, and Proton to make sure we are tax like no people business. I must say Malaysian is innovation country when it comes to corruption.
To all Malaysian try to wake up. Remember because of some leader blind vision and political ego, we already suffer 28 years for using poorer quality national car. Remember most people buying .national car is just because these cars are cheap (in both quality, service and workmanship) and their income can’t support the heavy tax of foreign car.
their car auto industry is just waiting to burst when the regional economies to suffer next year. building more cars but road infrastructure remains. same here and Jakarta. Stop talking about automotive, be it local or imports. we need MRT/LRT or rail and use electricity. I am selling my properties and convert all my cash to Singapore and migrate there. TO hell with you all Malaysian
oh really??? i wanna migrate there tooooo…bring me along plz….
The grass is always greener on the other side, remember this when u are on the greener side… the grass is always greener on the other side.
No one is stopping you, go ahead by all means to your so called haven. I am staying at hell. Hell Yah!
All the best bro…Stay there & die there & dont come back here..Tq
Bravo Land of Smile, and thumb down NAP.
they got iphone 5 earlier than us, they use better cars than us, they have tonnes of hot chicks than us.. hmmmm, well still love malaysia, *jealous* :(
tonnes of hot chicks and ladyboys too :)
you should all know in Thailand all car makers make the cars for local market and export around the region, same as the electronics and computer hardware companies in Thailand. Dr. M idea was honest and good but it went out of control due to mismanagement, favoritism and politics, that is why it did not florish. another problem is religion which makes many European car makers go to Thailand and China. we need to be open minded and allow all to come and establish their factories here. I believe Malaysia can lure all these companies in only we stop these actions and open our eyes to the world. our engineers are far better trained and smarter and we can do wonders if politics and favoritism of some people with money does not stop them and force them to go overseas. we all bash PROTON, they have alot to offer but under their restrictions by management, government and politics they are held back. negative approach always brings negative results. does anyone here know that Mercedes cars assembled in Malaysia are so high quality that the only better ones are from Germany? that is why Malaysia is the only country that is allowed to assemble the top of the range 500S model which is also exported to Australia and HK from Malaysia. open positive and think positive. we are almost there people.
Dr M is a honest to Malaysian? My foot! He say he is enjoying Porsche hybrid because he is old to enjoy luxury car. If I am Bapa Proton, I will make sure I will drive Proton till I go to hell, and make sure I make good car for Proton buyer.
Why our policies always benefit our neighbors up north or down south?From Education to Economic and now Automotive policies.Are our policies makers themselves traitors to our country?
Most of our politician betray our Malaysian for money and honey.
traitor (it that too strong a word to use?)….errh….high treason to ones own country, i am afraid to say that is only punishable by death. very sad.
Fxck the Dr.M’s idea,don’t know how to clean the mass. is not a good leader. In their eye just money, not the future of Malaysian. Fxck the corruption BxN politicians. Which country on this world The PM can be Finance miniter and PM two job as the same time? only in Malaysia. They spend the money of country as what they like, just let the PM approve it if they like.
When come to corruption, we are the leading innovative country for all kinds of stupid policy like PM is Finance Minister too, like he is good at multitasking.
Najis 1 Malangsia, just built up biggest poision factory in this country. They just raped this country again and again.Fxck the corruption politicians of BxN. Wish them go to hell.
Damn malu…….Proton
Tak tau malu la this Proton, Cheat us Malaysian for decades.
For the past 20 years, auto market in Bolehland has been screwed single handedly by me :(
Yes correct, correct, correct… Dr Mamak = Father of Thai automotive industry!
vote for BN for my cronies survival.
Same as DAPigs…even more cronies & rasis…
vote for me! i have to keep mahathir’s cronies alive! and my cronies too.