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  • Flexi-fuel Cars run on gasoline and alcohol

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    Flexi-fuel vehicles, short for “flexible-fuel” or “dual-fuel” vehicles are cars that can run on two sources of fuel. Common flexi-fuel vehicles run on gasoline and ethanol. Our Malaysian taxis are also flexi-fuel vehicles, as they […]
     

  • NAP After-Effects: Proton to reduce prices

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    Proton M.D. Syed Zainal Abidin Syed Mohamed Tahir told press today that Proton would be reducing the prices of it’s cars across the board by 2% to 5%. Proton also aims to increase it’s local […]
     

  • Satria Replacement Model in April?

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    A report by New Straits Times says Proton expects to launch a new model in April. This could most likely be the SRM as I don’t think there’s any possibility of a Perdana based on […]
     

  • NAP Tax Rates

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    Here are the new National Automotive Policy tax rates as of 22nd March 2006.
     

  • Joke of the day millenium

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    The Government had never supported us and did not give us a chance. It must assist us now and I hope that it will be done. The above line was quoted by PEKEMA president Datuk […]
     

  • Thoughts on the National Automotive Policy

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    The new National Automotive Policy was released on the 22nd of March 2006. We’ve waited in anticipation for it for quite some time now. Most of us are primarily concerned on how it will affect […]
     

  • NAP After-Effects: Perodua reduces prices

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    With the new tax structures and policies of the National Automotive Policy, Perusahaan Otomobil Kedua Sdn Bhd (Perodua) announced price cuts of between RM800 to RM1500 per vehicle, which translates to about 2% to 3% […]
     

  • NAP After-Effects: Toyota cars to be cheaper

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    We’ve just seen one of the first effects of the new National Automotive Policy. UMW has just announced it’s passanger cars will be cheaper by 5.6% to 11% with the new tax structure, however MPVs […]
     


  • Malaysia National Automotive Policy

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    You will find after the jump the full text of the new National Automotive Policy, reproduced verbatim. Have had no time to read through it in full yet. Will post about it tonight. For now, […]
     

  • National Automotive Policy News Flash

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    This just in. The government will progressively phase out the Approved Permits system, with complete abolishment by December 2010. Import tariffs for ASEAN vehicles under the ASEAN Common Effective Preferential Tariff will be reduced to […]
     

  • BRABUS S V12 S Biturbo

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    A souped up S-class. Sometimes you wonder why such monsters are even made, as the typical owner of a Mercedes Benz S-class would be chauferred around in the back seat instead of driving the car. […]
     

  • Suzuki Swift CKD in 2007

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    [ UPDATE: Click here to read a test drive report of the new locally assembled Suzuki Swift! ] [ UPDATE: The locally assembled Suzuki Swift CKD has been launched in Malaysia and goes for RM71,943.50 […]
     



 
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