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  BMW Credit Malaysia offers special rates

  31 May 2007 / 13 comments

  BMW Lease (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd and BMW Credit (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, formed from the recently acquired Sime Lease and Sime Credit, has come up with a new attractive financing package to celebrate it’s start of [...]

  
  

   

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  Volkswagen Malaysia targets 700 units this year

  31 May 2007 / 9 comments

  Volkswagen Group Malaysia has sold 223 units this year so far, and targets a total of 700 units by year end. It currently has 12 dealerships nationwide, with the latest dealers being Federal Auto Holdings [...]

  
  

   

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  E70 BMW X5 3.0si, 3.0d, 4.8i launched in Malaysia

  30 May 2007 / 20 comments

  The E70 BMW X5 is finally in Malaysia. It succeeds the original X5 launched in 2001, and offers such a long list of improvements that it almost warrants a model name change! Just kidding, anyway [...]

  
  

   

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  Volkswagen looking at Indonesia instead?

  28 May 2007 / 35 comments

  A piece of news by Edmunds Inside Line carries some very bad news. Edmunds picked up the story of the government saying it will not be providing any financial bailout to Proton, whose cash reserves [...]

  
  

   

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  Euromobil officially launches Audi Q7 in Malaysia

  27 May 2007 / 21 comments

  The Audi Q7 has been available in Malaysia since November 2006, with prices pegged at RM580,000 for the 3.0 litre TDI turbodiesel variant, and RM750,000 for the V8-powered Audi Q7 4.2 FSI Tiptronic. But as [...]

  
  

   

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  April 2007 sales: industry still in a slump

  24 May 2007 / 41 comments

  Motor vehicle sales for April 2007 registered a drop again compared to the same month in 2006 – this time a 17% drop from 40,482 to 33,679. MAA blamed the decline on lack of consumer [...]

  
  

   

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  New Nissan Latio and Latio Sport: end of June

  23 May 2007 / 68 comments

  The long awaited new Nissan model that we’ve been expecting after looking at spyshots this year will be available at the end of next month. Nissan’s new Latio comes in two variants, a 5-door hatch [...]

  
  

   

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  Mid-May 2007 Proton talks update

  18 May 2007 / 78 comments

  There has been no word yet from Volkswagen on the potential tie-up with Proton, says Second Finance Minister Nor Mohamed Yakcop. “Not yet. I will let you know one day … just give us a [...]

  
  

   

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  Proton dealers snub RM150,000 VSS offer

  17 May 2007 / 161 comments

  Proton is trying to cut down it’s dealership network by offering a voluntary separation scheme (VSS) to it’s dealers, offering a one time pay-off fee to compensate for them having to close down their dealerships. [...]

  
  

   

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  SMART Tunnel Videos

  17 May 2007 / 37 comments

  The SMART Tunnel has been open now for the past 3 days, and the 3km tunnel is still free of toll for a month so that motorists can try it out. No indication of toll [...]

  
  

   

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