Geely to build its own assembly plant in Indonesia

Geely to build its own assembly plant in Indonesia

Geely Automobile is definitely looking at making some serious inroads in Indonesia. The company has been selling its cars in the country since April 2010, and through its local subsidiary Geely Mobil Indonesia now has 18 dealerships across the country, with two new ones to come about this year.

Now, reports say that it is planning to build its own assembly plant there, which will be located in Cikarang, Bekasi in West Java. Land clearing for the site is being carried out now, and when completed – at a cost of between US$30 million to US$50 million – the plant will start assembling Geely products in 2015.

Currently, the company sells the Panda hatchback as well as the MK sedan and MK2 hatchback in Indonesia, the latter two being assembled locally at an Astra International plant in North Jakarta. It showcased its latest product for the market, the Panda LC Cross, at the IIMS in Jakarta last week. Looking to be very depanda-ble as a player in Indonesia, the brand is.

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Anthony Lim

Anthony Lim believes that nothing is better than a good smoke and a car with character, with good handling aspects being top of the prize heap. Having spent more than a decade and a half with an English tabloid daily never being able to grasp the meaning of brevity or being succinct, he wags his tail furiously at the idea of waffling - in greater detail - about cars and all their intrinsic peculiarities here.

 

Comments

  • taboogen on Jul 25, 2011 at 11:04 am

    i want to say its kinda cute but at the same time look weird….

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  • CitizenX on Jul 25, 2011 at 11:27 am

    Anthony Lim, your profile mentioned ‘…nothing is better tan a good smoke…’ There is no such thing as a good smoke, my friend. Smoking is simply bad for one’s health and all those around. So kindly refrain from advocating and glorifying smoking on Paul Tan’s highly respected webite. Cheers :-)

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    • Anthony Lim (Member) on Jul 25, 2011 at 12:07 pm

      Goodness, someone finally noticed! :) Too much political correctness these days, IMHO – it’s good to have resistance, even if it is just a little insignificant corner!

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      • to me, having a good smoke is lighting up my rear tyres and getting some smoke going :)

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    • PakAbu on Jul 26, 2011 at 9:27 am

      Maybe he was referring to drifting… :mrgreen:

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  • Simon H on Jul 25, 2011 at 11:43 am

    This is comical! Why don’t they approach Digi to make it Digi’s yellowman official car instead :p
    I wouldn’t want to be seen driving one of these. Absolutely awful in my opinion.

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  • DarkAvenger on Jul 25, 2011 at 12:15 pm

    This car is GELI. Just like it’s name!!!

    No china cars for me….yuckk…..

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  • Yellow car!!!

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  • Liverpool on Jul 25, 2011 at 1:03 pm

    Please don’t bring this to our country, the only thing nice about the car is the color ;)

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  • fique d on Jul 25, 2011 at 1:44 pm

    hahaha…. they should sell this at any supersave store… yellow fever anyone?naza don’t u dare bring this car to our soil…

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  • Vincent on Jul 25, 2011 at 2:17 pm

    TQ Malaysia New Automotive Policy that make way for world class car maker to move to Thailand in the past, and Indonesia now….

    Tun Dr M, Bapa Automotive Thailand + Indonesia!

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  • Disgusting!

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  • Does the airbag need to test or have expiry date? How do we have confident of airbag is functioning during accident if the vehicle is running for a few years?

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  • kalo bumper hitam & bonet putih sure cunnn giler mcm Panda bear…bole beli satu ! lampu dah mcm panda dah ..cunnn & cute

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