NAP After-Effects: Suzuki prices up
As the result of the new CBU and CKD car tax structure and gazetted CBU pricelist under the new National Automotive Policy, prices for the CBU Suzuki Swift and CBU Suzuki APV have gone up. To make up for the price increase, Suzuki has added bodykits as standard options for both the Swift and APV. The price for the Suzuki Grand Vitara remains the same. Here’s the new prices.
| Model Name | Old Price | New Price |
| Suzuki Swift 1.5 (A) | RM81,779 | RM87,279 |
| Suzuki Swift 1.5 (A) Premier | RM86,279 | RM91,779 |
| Suzuki APV 1.6 (M) | RM63,187 | RM66,687 |
| Suzuki APV 1.6 (M) Premier | RM70,487 | |
| Suzuki APV 1.6 (A) | RM71,187 | RM74,687 |
| Suzuki APV 1.6 (A)) Premier | RM79,187 | |
| Suzuki Grand Vitara 2.0 (A) | RM139,888 | RM139,888 |
The price of the Suzuki Swift 1.5 (A) baseline without leather seats and tinting has actually gone up by quite a bit, but don’t worry as manufacturing of CKD Suzuki Swift cars is expected to begin in 2007. Tax on CKD cars are not as high as CBU cars, so you will be able to enjoy a cheaper but locally assembled Suzuki Swift next year.
May 4, 2006 @ 2:19 am
Darn it!
Oh well, might as well wait for the turbo version.
May 4, 2006 @ 9:05 am
DRB got own AP, cost average 10k per unit,
still UP PRICE?
not passing saving to RAKYATS!
what a Greedy Assss!
with this price RM90K,
u CAN get 2 UNITS SWIFTs
in china, aussie, UK!
CKD?
only they price it at fair RM50-60K!
May 4, 2006 @ 9:07 am
RM 90K for a little swift?!
that should be the global
price for
2.0L CAMRY, Accord!
May 4, 2006 @ 10:04 am
BS!!!!!!!!! THANKS G!!!!!!!!!!
May 4, 2006 @ 10:26 am
Ya…90k for a swift…that’s a rip off….has anyone seen the bodykit…its so badly done it looks like some cheap design paste on type of bodykit….yucks….(saw it in motortrader web)….
For 90k u can get a honda city vtec or a toyota vios
May 4, 2006 @ 10:49 am
Now i am confuse.. if i am not mistaken tax for CBU cars reduced recently, but why they increased price instead?.. funny2… but go ahead la increase.. only morons will buy swift at that price.. i believe even without ED tax, they still goin to sell the car at super expensive price… we r used to expensive cars oredi….
May 4, 2006 @ 6:42 pm
Swift is a nice car but unfortunately at 90K . it aint worth it . but guess some will still buy it. Like Honda Jazz.. similiar price but plenty on the road nowadays .
May 4, 2006 @ 8:39 pm
Premier?
May 4, 2006 @ 9:20 pm
The Premier version has leather seats and tinting. For the APV, it also has aircond for the rear passangers.
May 4, 2006 @ 9:21 pm
emm…. suppose drop why up…….. hmm.. where are you toyota yaris…
may be see you in kl motorshow….
May 4, 2006 @ 9:42 pm
as usuall.. car price is f**ked up by the gov.
May 4, 2006 @ 11:22 pm
toyota yaris will be launched by 2nd quarter this year according to a car magazine. It will be competing with super mini like Honda Jazz, Mitsubishi Colt. Well expect it to be priced at RM 100K or more.
May 4, 2006 @ 11:54 pm
This kind of pricing design to deny rakyat to get cars at lowest price with good quality and safety aspect! NAP suck!
May 5, 2006 @ 3:57 am
Two weeks ago a familt friend recieved his Swift. I was there at the showroom when he took the delivery. I was told that, the premier version is 10k more than the standard version. Not only it comes with bodykit, tinted window and leather seats as standard, but you can have the optional 16″ sport rims too! It looks damn good!
Paul, I heard today that DRB-HICOM is quite “tenat” financially. Any news on that?
May 5, 2006 @ 8:10 am
rm90k?
well we can get 3 suzuki swift based on customs price paul posted here
May 5, 2006 @ 8:51 am
overhead”
drb ceo said: ” jazz and yaris is price at 100k,
we sell only 90k, giving RAKYATS
saving of 10K!!!”
axxxxxxxxx”
May 5, 2006 @ 9:29 am
Kendo - DRB CEO said: Jazz and Yaris is price at 100K?
We sell only 90K,
so NAP/G SUCK rakyats of 50K to 60K for these 3 models.
This shall be correct and accurate statement! Really a$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
May 5, 2006 @ 10:20 am
Joe Ooi said,
May 5, 2006 @ 9:29 am
“Kendo - DRB CEO said: Jazz and Yaris is price at 100K?
We sell only 90K,
—-so NAP/G SUCK rakyats of 50K to 60K for these 3 models.
This shall be correct and accurate statement! Really a$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ ”
Do u where the money GO?
to pay for overstaffed civil servants (mostly lazy),
corrupted project practices - MAS, MRR2, Johor brigde..
…..sickening fish heads!
May 5, 2006 @ 11:15 am
kendo - Definitely more than that - not all these money go to G, worst is for FIRST ROUND some directly go to “crocs”, “AP King”, “ular sawa”, Datok2 & Datin2, P1, etc.
All cars sold in Malaysia, the retail selling price, we as consumers have to pay is already factor in NAP’s “CarTaxLand FIXED COST” and plus all these nonsense “hisap darah VARIABLE COST”. For MAS, MRR2, Crook Bridge, etc. It is and will be SECOND, THIRD, FOURTH, …….. ROUNDS of “corruption - hisap darah”. At the end, the actual money flow back to RAKYATS might be (if we adopt Pareto Principle, 20:80) AT MOST 20% and flow into G/NAP/crocs/Datok2 & Datin2/AP King, Ular Sawa, etc pockets is AT LEAST 80%.
Definitely it is damn sickening, ………..
Long life Rakyats, short life P1,… closed shop ASAP is best!
May 5, 2006 @ 11:51 am
2 funny. Only in Malaysia, economy class cars can reached up to 100k. With that kind of price I can buy a Golf GTI mk-5 with full options in US with money to spare…..
May 5, 2006 @ 11:52 am
Problem with switching from CBU to CKD is lower local assembly quality. Such has been the case for Honda, etc.
May 5, 2006 @ 12:08 pm
cavino
CBU - “Completely Built Up”
CKD - “Completely Knock Down”
The above wording of the above sentences is clearly means what is the quality of end products!
May 5, 2006 @ 5:52 pm
Car distributed under the DRB group are generally over-priced IMHO. But I don’t think is the government fault rather greedy DRB. Take Chervolet Aveo for example. They want RM80k for lousy engine with poor economy, no airbags or ABS car that just have looks alone.
Anyway, the government needs money for the NM9 as funds had been used up by the previous PM. So they try to drain our blood lah.
May 5, 2006 @ 7:46 pm
we are paying EXTRA - unqiue” exercise duty”,
that never exist in other countries
(salex tax is normal.
Look at UK/ Aussie Gquality with these NORMAL car tax money).
- assuming average minimal RM 10K per car for “exercise duty”
= 500,000 cars/ year x Rm10K E-duty= RM50,000,000,000!!!!
= RM 50 BILLION !!!!! (EXTRA..extra.extra….)
we are overpaying the mediocre HEADS.
BUt what CRAPS are rakyats getting ?!!
dumb…DO make WISE choice in coming time..
for TRUE rakyats car quality.
May 5, 2006 @ 9:48 pm
Malaysians are so miserable!
Paying more than RM80K for a BUDGET CAR??? Hahaha!
no thanks to the G.
May 5, 2006 @ 11:07 pm
Hai….. what to do? This is the government the ‘rakyat’ elect one mah…Here at ‘Boleh Land’, want to buy car ah… Average ‘rakyat’ can only afford low quality overpriced P1 or P2 cars. Want to buy other brand, need to donate a huge and unfair amount of money in terms of excise duty, sales tax and import tax to the G.
May 6, 2006 @ 9:40 am
ckcheong - To be more precise is not “DONATE” but G through NAP and P1 is a “legal license to SUCK” like vacuum cleaner until “rakyats clean2 along it path”, no where to hide and can’t avoid as they treat consumers as “capture market” like bird in the cage, have to “sing good song to entertain them, yet we still owe them as they feed us in cage, other wise we die of starvation”. “Never admit their sin in the first place by putting us inside the cage - protected market”.
So, as a matter of pride, we shall not sing good song but make alll kind of noise so that the “world police - AFTA, WTO, etc” know our suffering and come to rescue us. Let” AFTA of G” - “Always F$$k The A$$hole of G”!