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Mahindra to assemble pick-up trucks in Malaysia

March 21, 2006 at 11:25 am By Paul Tan Filed Under Cars, India, Local News, Mahindra

small_scorpio.jpgMahindra & Mahindra Ltd, who currently sells the Mahindra Scorpio here in Malaysia is planning to assemble pick-up trucks here in Malaysia in 2007. Assembly will be done through a joint-venture with Mahindra’s current distributor USF-HICOM (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd.

The Mahindra Scorpio is currently offered in petrol and diesel versions here in Malaysia. While it looks like a rugged off-roader, it actually has no 4WD ability. Not sure if the diesel variant has it or not, but the petrol one definitely doesn’t.

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Proton courts Hindustan Motors for India market

February 20, 2006 at 4:54 am By Paul Tan Filed Under Cars, India, International News, Malaysian Makes

Proton had attempted to enter the India market with talks with Hindustan Motors in 2003 but talks didn’t really amount to much. Now Proton has started talks again with Mahindra and Hindustan Motors for a retry at the market.

Proton MD Syed Zainal Abidin was reported to issue a statement to international media that Proton would re-look at China and India as the market in those two countries were too huge to ignore. Proton and Hindustan Motors has something in common – Mitsubishi as a technical partner.

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