It’s common in Malaysia for the prices of automobiles to go up a few months after launch for numerous reasons such as revised tax rates. With the coming new automotive policy coming into effect in […]
Proton Holdings Bhd is holding an emergency board meeting today (June 30th 2005) over it’s CEO’s criticisms against the government’s automotive policy in the Oriental Daily newspaper. Details here. Is this the end of Tengku’s […]
Naza signed an agreement with French automobile company Peugeot S.A. yesterday (29/6/2005) for the rights to assemble and distribute the Peugeot 206 model in Malaysia and possibly South-east Asia. Update: Naza has launched the Naza […]
Perodua used to have an order tracking lookup page. What you do is you put in your VSO (Vehicle Sales Order) number and you can check out the status of your order. This VSO is […]
Petrol prices in Malaysia are expected to go up again because of the hike in crude oil prices worldwide. One barrel of crude oil went up to an all time high of USD$60 (roughly RM228) […]
Mambo is quickly becoming the defacto CMS because of it’s extremely easy to use interface, wealth of add-ons and templates and also because of the security issues that plagues the Nuke series of CMSes. Parti […]
“I wouldn’t have to create Linux if there wasn’t any lawsuit against BSD in the early 90`s. It wouldn’t be necesary”. – Linux Torvalds. [ Source ] I predict this line would be quoted by […]
An article in The Edge Daily on 28th June 2005… Minister of International Trade and Industry Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz has told Proton Holdings Bhd not to point fingers at others for its own shortcomings, […]
A forumer dawn at the Perodua Myvi Forums has alerted us of a problem with the Perodua Myvi rear drum brakes. Apparently something is wrong with the left rear drum brake, causing the handbrake to […]
The latest version of WordPress is out. It’s recommended that everyone upgrade to the latest version because of a vulnerability on the xmlrpc.php file in the distribution. Or as a temporary fix, you can delete […]
Volkswagen and Proton does share some similiarities. Both have been labelled as People Movers, providing affordable cars to it’s respective countries. Proton has been unable to break that generalization, but at it’s current stage I […]
Why am I not suprised? :roll: Government delays new automotive policy Tuesday June 21, 2005 THE government has delayed its new automotive policy by two months to September from July, International Trade and Industry Minister […]
Jeff Ooi blogs Proton CEO Tengku Mahaleel’s criticisms and opinions on the national autombile industry as he was interviewed by Oriental Daily News today. An interesting read. He bashes other national car makers like Inokom […]
Proton’s Perdana Replacement Model will be based on a Volkswagen Passat. Proton is already going to build the previous generation Passat for sale in ASEAN markets for Volkswagen so it might OEM the model for […]
Interesting. Is this Dr. M’s way of giving the rakyat a preview of what’s going to happen without officially announcing anything yet before it’s finalised? AFX News Limited Malaysia’s Proton says will not stop Volkswagen […]
