Daihatsu has unveiled its latest concept car at the 2011 Indonesian International Motor Show – the Daihatsu A-Concept, which includes the involvement of Indonesians with the support of Daihatsu Japan.
After learning the name of the concept car from the scale model we photographed and featured earlier today, we had initially thought that the letter A in the name meant an A-segment vehicle. While this could still be (or not be) the fact, the official explanation for the letter A is that it represents the first letter in the alphabet and thus signifies the start of a new life for Indonesian society.
According to PT Astra Daihatsu Motor president Sudirman MR, there are currently a group of personnel from his company transferred to Japan for the purpose of knowledge transfer, covering various fields from car design down to production.
And there’s also the fact that Sudirman MR has been recently appointed to the board of directors of Daihatsu Motor Company, firmly cementing Indonesia’s importance in Daihatsu’s plans for the future. Indonesia is being used as the launch (and possibly production) hub for this car, much like India was the center for the concept and production of the Suzuki A-Star/Alto.
This car may very well be a preview for the upcoming affordable and economical car capable of 30km/l that Daihatsu plans to launch. Or it may be not, but from the way the car was presented, this is something that Daihatsu really wants to put into production.
We are guessing that Daihatsu Japan will be introducing the next generation Mira this September, since it has already been five years since the current generation was launched (end 2006). Daihatsu is likely to style the new JDM Mira according to quirky Japanese tastes, but perhaps the design of this A-Concept will be used to create an ASEAN/world version of the car, just like how there is a separate JDM Passo/Boon design for Japan and a Myvi/Sirion design for Malaysia and Indonesia.
Look after the jump for a full photo gallery of the A-Concept.
GALLERY: Daihatsu A-Concept
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GALLERY: Daihatsu A-Concept Live at 2011 IIMS
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GALLERY: Daihatsu A-Concept Clay Model
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The rear lights remind me of the Aston Martin Cygnet’s.
More like Kia Sportage rear lights
KIa rio design line !
Exactly my sentiments too.
Cygnet’s taillights apart, nose is Fiesta lookalike. Laugh-out-loud.
errr.. i see the front like a bit like “lagi best”..
or i have problem with my eyes? bcos the front light is see like “Lagi Best”..
maybe just my thought..
Love to know what engine ir has, 2 cyinder turbo?
Mike
Hmmmm… ramai pelabur sudah lari ke indonesia termasuk dalam bidang kenderaan. Habislah ekonomi Malaysia tak lama lagi jika terus seperti ini.
Dont be afraid, we just less than 9 years away from Wawasan 2020. :D
Malaysia ke arah kuasa besar dunia!
lol, /k/ invades paultan
/k/ is everywhere
En. Latif, kenapa cepat gelabah?
Relax la… Control sikit macho tu.
Kalau dah nampak orang lain dah nak menyaingi kita, kita kena tingkatkan la lagi usaha kita.
Dunia ni penuh persaingan. Kalau takde persaingan dlm dunia ni boring la.
Bila kita dah nampak pelabur nak cari tempat lain, ni la masa kita kerja lebih kuat jadikan negara kita pilihan pelabur balik.
Kalau kita asyik berpecah, asyik tunjuk kat dunia negara kita ni kucar kacir, tak stabil, kalau kita kita jadi peabur pun kita mesti cari negara lain selain Malaysia :)
why u so afraid? indonesia is big economy based on population alone its natural they become strong as time move forward…..right now less indonesian want to come to malaysia since their economy become better and better in all sector and there are now more and more bangla around…
living cost in Jakarta is higher than KL.. that’s should show how much their economy has improved.
Just keep on buying more Proton Saga FL & we will reach Wawasan 2020 in the end. Yes, we will still be driving Proton Safa FL XI in 2020. Better than walking & makan rumput right??? hahaha….
pity you..u shud open a business in indon n see how the bribe culture there…i think u haven’t been to indon yet right?
dreamer
You may be right. I’m Indonesian, and I dont like how the bribery runs here.
Anyway, A-concept has front fascia of VW Iroc Concept and Aston Martin Cygnet rear lamp.. shame design anyway,, and It’s coming from Indonesian :)
Volkswagen Scirocco front, Kia Sportage rear…
front looks like Hyundai Tucson,back part like Kia sportage. haha
1st thing is kia design jump into my mind
nice !
Paul Tan, out of topic! Just ask is there any participation by Nissan? If yes, do they display the latest model for Nissan Serena – C26.
whatever the terminology of cheap, when it comes to this bolehland…it’s never cheap.
the front fascia looks like from mg zero concept, while the back looks like aston martin martin cygnet
mistaken-ably a hyunday
A liitle bit ashame by our last year KL Motor Show… lol
We, Malaysia lost everything now. Under IMV, Indonesia take Innova mpv and Avanza mpv; while Thailand handle both SUV and SUT.
Now Thai added passenger car and small car under their portfolio while Indonesia added Daihatsu small car, and the Philippines, producing Ford.
If you think Indonesia not promising investment venue and economic future, think again!
Najib cabinet should do something concrete not merely lipstick service to drive Malaysia back to right track of economy.
1Malaysia tak boleh lihat sahaja tanpa melakukan apa-apa yang konrit bagi kemajuan ekonomi.
and sometimes it’s not because of gov. companies are doing business, and they choose thai and indo over malaysia because the market size is bigger (malaysia is almost saturated), more supply of cheap labour (salary for honda workers in thai is cheaper than china), and cheap land for them to build their factories. if they’re looking for stable economy and rich countries, they would choose singapore, but is that a wise decision? if they produce cars in large number (hundreds of thousands yearly), they would try to keep the production cost down, and Malaysia is not a low-cost country.
i would prefer we develop own tech, become more like japanese and koreans and proudly say ‘malaysian brand, produced in malaysia and exported globally’ rather than thai.. made in thai but there’s no sense of belonging to the cars, because they only build the cars, but all owned by japanese.
beeend trooper la.
you can drive a potong car, because of reality(money), but you should not always twist and turn the words and make protectionism sounds like a proper thing to do.
anyway, proton and perodua is now slowly gearing to a more open market.
an inspira for rm88k, can you believe it? how much is the perdana last time? did perdana discount?
so, i can see proton and perodua is preparing themselves. time for myvi to drop price.
Are suggesting that Japanese or even Korean wages CHEAPER than Malaysia? You know that Malaysia gave free tax holiday up to 12 years to hi-tech material LAMP Lynas?
The conclusion: If you still buying whatever good news over our economy from TV3 and the likes, sooner rather than later we’ll losing to our neighbors, bro.
Our archaic auto and industrial policy must go. In a country when democratic demonstration was deemed illegal despite against basic human right and deportation of prominent attorney from one of top OECD nation and the whim and fancy of the authority of immigration (the same agency was too lenient when it comes to de-illegal of illegal immigrants up to no respect from illegal immigrants to use proper way to enter Malaysia since easier to use illegal path almost guaranteed “pemutihan”).
This country must made a favorite sensible destination of beneficial industry unlike controversial Lynas. When world opted for lesser dependence on nuke energy we’re opposite. Corruption is better than yesterday? Free mainstream media?
This also will affect our chance to be industries favorite choice.
karl, i do not want to touch other topic rather than auto related stuffs.
tax rebate or tax free period has been given to numerous companies setting up in Malaysia, especially from which we may gain technology know-how. remember MSC initiative in late 1990’s? many multinational companies with MSC status get tax free for few years. now, the same incentives were given to bio-tech, and renewable energy sectors such as solar panel R&D in penang.
now, why would gov give tax free for car companies to build assembly plants here if there’s no R&D? oh yeah.. we’ll get more companies like Perodua and Naza which could only redesign bumpers and new logo. isn’t that great?
Developing own tech is good but not in the current trend anymore. Smaller companies (in this case proton) will have to rely on technology sharing. If Proton does share your mindset of stubbornly producing own tech, this company is sure doomed (joy of others of couse).
I dun really need to proudly say “Malaysian Brand, Produced in Malaysia, Exported Globally”. What Malaysian needs are safer and worthy/value cars for the people and not simply some ignorant Pride, one of the deadly seven sins.
Luckily for Proton, the recent news of CVT and ABS makes me feel better about them.
Yes.. agree.. the Malaysia is only Bolehland but the Thai and Indo is Cheapestland slogan.. Sure all move to there.. But I really hate the quality drop so dramatically. The company that I work in also have factory in Indo&Thai produce many “complaint” product to the market. I also damn sad. See..later we will complain if buy those car.
We used to have biggest auto market than Indonesia and Thailand since the 90s till recently. But more than 50% of car sold is belong to our national car, so the market wise isn’t big for foreign car maker anymore. In this past 20years, foreign automaker had built their plant in our neighbour country.
Mainly because their auto policy didnt state after you totally built/manufacture a car in a country you still need to pay hillalous duty and tax. What for you spend billion to invest a country that doesn’t allow to sold the local-make product in the country with lower price but still same price as CKD(assembly) vehicle?
Why shall we proud of our national car? Out of average yearly production of 300,000+ unit, more than 90% are sold in our own Malaysian market. Even exported to global market it’s only a few unit like Chery or Chana vehicle on our road. Would we give a damn to this 2 brand?
“i would prefer we develop own tech, become more like japanese and koreans and proudly say ‘malaysian brand, produced in malaysia and exported globally”
Dream on dude, until as what Idris Jala said, our nation will become bankrupt in 2019 if one of the causes of bankruptcy is NAP policy that protect the cronies and those well-connected with corridor of power at Putrajaya.
Our own tech, at best shown by Proton is crap Cam-tak-Pro under-power engine. Why do a U-turn by rebadge Lancer as Inspira? Why we need to proudly say “malaysian brand”? Jap, Euro or US never said it is their national brand, but clobal iconic trademark like VW, Airbus, Facebook, Toyota, Google, Honda, Coca-cola, etc, you name it they got it. Do Jimmy Choo or Zang Toi brand is considered as Malaysia brand despite the creator is from Malaysia? I think you are the balls-licker of cronies! Why we need to “national” status for-this-and-that of our products, if good, then go for international status like Selangor Pewter, Lat Cartoon, etc without the need of protection from gov.
NAP causing bankruptcy? Proton was established to reduce import and our dependency to foreign products. Thailand used to banned import cars in 1980s to reduce their trade deficit. carmakers have to build factories in thai to sell their car there. u only see low price of cars made in thai, but price of imported cars in thai is higher than malaysia.
we used to be biggest exporter of raw materials such as tin and rubber, but later we import processed metal and tyres at higher cost. because of local auto industries, we have all factories producing many parts locally and has reduced imports. how much is locally produced parts? and how much is imported ones? proton and perodua has helped to stabilize our economy.
from your example, america didn’t take ownership of GM and Chrysler? so, why would they protect GM by injecting trillions of dollars into the car industry during recession? let’s see if Japan hit by recession, would they help their auto industries too…? it’s different in the UK where their auto companies only producing cars in thousands of units in a year. they wouldn’t care less about jaguar, lotus, caterham or any other exotic brands because if they collapse, the impact on their economy is very little. they’re just some nice brands to have, but u could still live without it.
for facebook, google, or coca-cola.. if these companies collapse, maybe they wont affect so much on the country economy as a whole like auto industries do.
how i wish that every other companies that setup factories in malaysia wouldnt have to pay those unnecessary taxes… the american govt helped to save GM and Chrysler by injecting trillions but dont control taxes on other makes just to protect their own brand…p1 & p2 are just a bunch of pampered babies…
nahh.. this will go round & round again. how many babies out there are not pampered? that’s human nature, always protecting their own.
and you say honda, toyota, hyundai are not protected? GM, Chrysler and Ford were kicked out from Japan after Japanese decided they want to build their own cars. in Korea, foreign brand are not allowed, unless you have JV with local companies, hence we see Renault-Samsung, and Kia doing assembly for GM. are they not pampered babies once?
We got Subaru,Peugeot,VW,BMW and Mercedes setting up shop.
Thanks to our government.
Nobody will buy Viva!
nice~
next generation kelisa..
Kelisa replacement~
i like it!
hope it will be imported to malaysia..
if it really can achieve 30km/l, i’ll definite buy it
my old 660cc-kancil auto did really consume high amount of fuel =,=
simply gorgeous… my kind of car..keep it up bebeh
nice car…
How many (Uk) MPG is 30 Km per litre?
Mike
84.7 mpg!
paul, your maths lol.
mile = 1.6 km
us gallon = 3.78 liter
30km/liter = 30 * 3.78/1.6 = 70.8 mpg.
you’re using english gallon?
Didn’t you see he asked for UK mpg not US mpg? UK/Imperial gallons are different.
Bloody Hell!
it is Skids/Mudflap!
haha….perodua planned to exports its myvi there……seems that indo producing prettier daihatsu
i think ive seen the rear on the proton emas ….
Proton Emas.. Don’t know need to wait how long only can built and release to the market. Wait till old also can’t buy it. Now even the Emas outlook is outdate compare to other.
so Hyundai looking! omg ! omg!
Mini Sirocco???!!!
hyundai inspired front…
OMG, is baby Kia Sportage….
LOL ! what the heck… its a 85% Hyundai style
Waaa…IIMS got many new cars introduced….KLMS…nothing…why???
Why? KLIMS is a all in one car showroom for Naza, SD, DRB-Hicom, etc. Manufacturer participant is minimal.
nice looking car… but we hv to wait n c the actual production unit. ideal small car, they could come with standard twin airbags, abs, ebd, tcs, auto 6 speed, adjustable driver seats, tilt n telescopic steering, eps. on the cc, well, ideally 1000cc to 1500cc, but if can give 30km/l, this beats prius also. full uv protected windscreen n windows glass would edged up the sellable point. afterall, if this concept car comes into bolehland, i would buy it for work, running by the massive traffic jams n tight roads of KL, would be ez to park n manouver over the billions of pot holes in the city. this would not be the weekend car, that i would prefer the faithful beemer
i like the design & style. futuristic & menacing! this design should be the new myvi design..
haha perodua will end up JAGUH kampung in BOLEH LAD only
GREEN car, GREEN lady, GREEN engine…
why front a bit like new myvi? is new myvi is front look is really designed by Mas but copy from indon concept?
Macam ford focus at a glance. No originality. But much prettier than that retarded Potong Emas.
looks still better than ‘lagi best’ Myvi
much prettier than girly myvi lb and retarded Viva pussy
.. last time perodua paln to be small car hub in ASEAN.. but now seems japanese prefer Indonesia than perodua Malaysia.. hahaha
All thanks to Proton as the government crony link company protecting your BN market
so perodua not protected by gomen?? prrrtfhh typical perodua salesman…
pity malaysian.. gov n perodua wudnt let this model come to malaysia.. otherwise.. ah soo and college girl will choose this over Myvi n viva .. gov has to protect perodua maaa
prrrrtfhhhh
u may call them copy king or whatsoever…I will still say they are good as they know what to copy, what the customers want. Unlike our jaguh kg, copies but to his liking only…..
this car can really make sales!! take that perodua & proton.
Indonesian motor show seems to be more interesting than ours. What’s happening to our ‘biggest passenger car market’ status?
headlamp : Lancer | Audi
Grill : Sciroccco
Front bumper : Lancer | Scirocco Delante concept
Side : Mazda 2
Rear : Kia Sportage
Rim : Alza
All in a good way!
Perodua bermimpi asyik dgn buaian sales myvi. ambik kau.
wow… large rim there… intimidating…
The front carries vibes of the VW Scirocco and the taillights remind me of the Aston Martin One-77’s, but that’s got to be the best-looking A-segment car I’ve ever seen.
Any word of what’s going to power it?
I wonder if P2’s gonna rebrand it as a Viva replacement one day.
Front VW scirocco + rear VW golf
Front like Fiesta
Every car Daihatsu produced in Indonesia is another nail in the Perodua’s coffin
20 years partnership with daihatsu and we still only get the crappy models..m’sia’s auto policy is joke of the world..forever syok sendiri plus price also most crazy..i am soo proud..
Enam though it has strong cues from Suzuki Cervo this A segment far beautiful than old style Viva. Viva was based on outgoing Mira Avy when it was introduced in 2007, newer version of Mira lineups already released. Of you think Perodua is Daihatsu 1st Asean lover; rethink again as Astra has longer history than Perodua.
It’s exactly a copycat design of Hyundai for the front grille. What the H
So Perodua designer not good enough for new own design cars in the eyes of Daihatsu?
hahaha..indonesian designs car much much better than us. pity to our engineer.. too much with myvi? it’s an old car already..we need some refreshments..
The interior macam inspired from P2 Bezza, design P2 Bezza more better..