DRB-Hicom is in the midst of hatching a plan for a project to be known as ‘Asian Car’ which will see Malaysia becoming a hub for the production of Volkswagen vehicles, reports Bernama.
In order for it to happen, DRB-Hicom’s owner Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary is working on a plan to list the distribution arm of DRB-Hicom Bhd. The plan is to list the merged Proton Edar and EON Bhd. DRB-Hicom itself might be delisted as part of the plan.
“It is one of the options on the table,” a source familiar with the proposed plan told Bernama. Under this option, DRB-Hicom’s automotive manufacturing arm and defence unit will be held privately by one of the companies owned by the tycoon.
DRB-Hicom’s existing shareholders will be able to convert some of their shares into the new listed company. They will also be given some cash, between 50 sen and RM1 per share, the sources said. The automotive manufacturing arm, meanwhile, will be relisted in another form later on, under the DRB-VW joint venture.
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Please put some money to improve VW after sales services as well.. see how many complaints in VW Malaysia FB page
wah VW oso got problem meh
That should be VGM effort la. drb is contracted VW assembler only. Unless u buy vw car at drb owned dealer at cheras…haiya…
I went to their service center in Cheras, bought mine in Jalan Ampang Wernes Auto.. both sucks as compared to Toyota/Honda…
actually quiet a lot of VW dealer messed up with after sales. ur comment should be more general bcoz drb is just one of the dealer. and seriously vw after sales is not on par with Japanese brand yet….
just take a look at all those comment….u all want or don want? seriously im not understand most of you..u all said no car maker want boleh to be their production hub..when there is opportunity u guys…….i just dont now what to say..i think better VW or any car maker no need to open plant here..ur not welcome
If full of cronies and corruptions, the price of VW will go up.
Fully imported cars from Japan is cheaper than locally assemble ckd cars. Inspira is more expensive than original Lancer in langkawi. Jazz hybrid made in Japan cbu is cheaper than made in Malaysia ckd Jazz hybrid.
LMAO so many syiok sendiri press release by DRB-Hicom. Renting out a space for others to build cars also want to claim credit.
At first it’s proposed “collaboration” with Honda and now even as a mere car assembler for VW. Funny we never see any joint or individual press release by Honda or VW about this.
DRB-VW joint venture.. this I must see what will materialise..
drb nampak mcm support malay la…because now government is majoriti malay…but gov also got pojek suport to ytl, berjaya, astro also. all non malay. racist people will keep thinking like racist.. sudah senang sudah kaya pun tak nampak lg sudah kaya. tgk org ada peluang mahu pancung lg.
VW orders a service from DRB (assembling cars) and DRB gets money for that from VW.
This is not a “joint-venture”, but a normal relationship between business-partners?
Is this a joint statement? DRB & VGM? If yes, good! If not, what is VGM’s reply?
Good for what, better buy original CBU VW, one day you will know why. Not enough money? Then go for Toyota please.
I would like to see what VW staffs from German can do to change the attitude or working culture of certain groups of people in Malaysia. The Germans are very lek (sai lei) and very confident, I presumed.
Good corporate move: –
1) De-listed DRB-Hicom and make it private, let VW take 51% and Cronies 49% for new entity (i.e. manufacturing).
2) Listing of merged Proton Edar and EON Bhd and make it public listed company – Cronies take 70%and VW take 30% (i.e. for Marketing arm).
This is sound, look and smell like Juara Kampung No. 1 arrangement with Toyota, through Daihatsu!
So, from then onward, no more crap quality car sell at inflated price. No more blind supporters talk about patriotic and national car. No more NAP, cronies and AP Kings come 2016!!!!!!
Najib:”What talking you? You got brain before talk?”
Cakap-cakap kosong many years ago already, to JV in bolehland, Term & Condition applied: tech must be transfered, CEO,GM must be Malay, share propotion must be VW=10%, Bolehland Colony=90% and duduk aangkat gaji buta. VW already JV Indon. Recognised Asian Car Hud is Thailand / Indonesia
Malay share is 100% and VW share is 0% as DRB-HICOM will be a contractor of VW.
There won’t be any technology transfer as DRB gets paid for a assembling job. Not more, not less.
Hub, hub, hub… we hear about this hub thingy since 10 years ago… do u think it can really work if we are still under this NAP…
if we are unwilling to change, how can we expect this…
Stupidity is doing the same thing again and again but expecting different result…
When the buying stop, the killing can too,
If we work together, we can win this…
Talk until cliud and sky. Indon and Thai is still the Asian Car hub. Malaysian is just Cronies hub for all type of creative corruption.
Our BN government want us to be the hub of this and
that but in fact we are losing out to Singapore, Thailand and soon Indonesia and Vietnam.
Yes, the hub create overhere is producing Juara Kampung No. 1 and Jaguh Kampung No. 2.
As much as I’d like to see us as a manufacturing hub, I have to agree with you.
Even if everything went well, who will be working in these factories? Just remember, we have only 27 million people in this country. In Thailand, Bangkok alone has a population equivalent to half of malaysia.
As much as I hate to admit but I don’t think malaysia will ever become an manufacturing hub for vehicles – high valued capital equipment, MAYBE! but automobiles? I don’t think so.
Robots. With friggin lasers!
We can never be the hub for manufacturing cars coz our wages are higher and can’t compete those of thailand, vietnam and indonesia. The price for moving up to upper income country. But we should focus being Automotives RnD hub and other support services. If we want cars company to manufacture here that mean we just wanna stuck being middle income country.
End of the day, we stil have to pay heavily taxed car. Gov shouldn’t protect Proton as proton has been sold to DRBHCOM ! Where on earth a gov protecting a privately held company at the cost of the nation ?
BN is still bela nasib Malayu. Not to be racist. Syed Mokhtar is now playing privatized game still want to help him.
not bela melayu bah! bela kroni and anak sendiri.
where got bn so altruistic bela orang lain punya anak?!
UMNO is set up to bela nasib anak Melayu. Not?
friend, that was umno. this is umno baru where got care for other peeps? only when come election time, they make sandiwara to get your votes, give BR1M and handphones etc. rest of the time, they make sure their spawn are rolling in hummers and ferrari GTOs!
Not all Melayu incompetent, just saying. However, Kroni wise, most…
Bela tak apa…..bela yang miskin. Apa kaya raya orang pun dapat benefit.
And then mca and dap???to bela nasib anak india ker??
I hope I am not causing racist remark here. What I mean is Syed is a rich fag, so Malaysian should not continue to help Proton. Open out the ASEAN free market.
this i totally agree with you!
that’s where you’re wrong. He’s not like any ‘born-rich’ guy. half of his first salary go to charity. and please read how much he contributed back to the society. i don’t care about other malay guy, but i will support a good guy like Syed.
I would LET HIM HAVE ALL THE MONEY HE CAN HAVE if he manages to fix Proton. Time is ticking, and 2013 plan kept on delaying and delaying.
He’s a very good philanthropist, but also untalented when it comes to business.
None of the car brands he handles seem to have good customer experience, Vw, audi, suzuki, honda, a little search can find complaints of bad service experience.
Mph bookstore is not the best, pos msia also not the best of service. Dunno what else he handle, but nothing quite spectacular in local scene let alone internationally.
It’s nothing personal, it’s just business. If he’s not interested in giving the best in his business, he should resign, give his seat to more deserving people and become full time volunteer.
Half of his “FIRST” salary? Don’t you find your own statement funny??
If government can give me RM10 billion now, I can straight-away donate half to charity. You have my word.
Alan pls read his history first.u can google it
Proton and Perodua are heavily taxed as well.
Fat chance
Old maid want to get married.
Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar will stop producing Proton cars. Our new national car is VW. Rejoice!!!
man i really dream to have that day come before i retire……
If DRB-Hicom want Malaysia to be a hub for the production of Volkswagen vehicles, it must first
get rid of the old adviser and cede control of
Proton to VW.
VW is not going to marry you on an equal footing.
You think VW is stupid
VW cars will be cheaper in Malaysia or not?
You wish. Everything in Malaysia now is premium. House, car, food, gadget… You still think of cheaper VW?
U cangkung lamalama mesti murah
i cangkung lama2, dapat buy 1 free 1.
What happened to the JV with Honda?
u thing only overnight they can come out with new models meh…. definitely you are not CEO of a company… so just hold on and wait for the news… agreement has been signed… plans is on its way… company have their own planning to do…. same like you.. buy new car today… but you wouldnt think of selling the car the next day to buy new one right… commonlah….
tengok tak atas tu drb punya plan..bukan proton punya plan..ada dia kata nak delist proton..ni projek drb alone…tak involve proton pun..drb kan ada potenza…dah lupa ek..kalau proton involve pun sbg partner je bukan sbg driving comitee dalam tu…
nak kutuk pun, nape nak kutuk Melayu..orang lain boleh kaya raya malah bertambah kaya…ytl dah kaya gile,.nape dapat projek bestari . net yang bernilai lebih 1 bilion…tapi takde orang bising sbb bukan orang melayu..
kalau syed mokhtar dapat, tentu MELAYU yng buruk namanya..sbb bn majoriti melayu…tu kan…kadang2 komen dalam ni dah mengarut pun ada …komen pasal kereta pun masuk bab politik..kalau bab dasar takde masalah contohnya NAP yang memang d akui tahap mengarut tahap gaban…kutuklah nak kutukpun..
tapi nape melayu jadi sasaran..mesti ramai yang kata aku pro bn..jadi anjing kerajaan n wat ever..tp hakikatnya bila orang Melayu d kutuk sbb ada orang Melayu nak mencuba…ape kes…
sbb tu kadang2 malas nak baca komen…sbb dah masuk tahap mengarut…kononnya lebih matang dari orang lain, tapi tajuk pasal kereta boleh plak mengutuk orang Melayu…tajuk lain,isi lain…HEBAT HEBAT..TAHNIAH…
Proton has been delisted last year.
I think he meant relist, not delist. Have 2 give credit 2 gie7 arguement. Everytime there is an article on malaysia automotive company, the words crony, corruption, bolehland, and jaguh kampung gets thrown around. Its about time people let that arguement go hand in hand with rational thinking. If this move ensures malaysia to be a succesful automotive hub n proton a credible global brand, who would still complain? Please wise up people….
Agree with gie7.
Please, forummers, focus on car issues only.
Btw, actually what is DRB’s plan for Proton? Tg Malim plant, Lotus, profitable export market etc. etc.. Time’s running out…
you are correct. but if you step back and look at the situation, you can see that years and years of what the government has done from the time after Tun Razak that the government have been tearing the nation apart by playing the racial card. and because it has gone through 3-4 generations, we have all become racist….which is sad and shouldnt be the case. So once a GLC makes a decision, we automatically become very critical of the situation and sometimes become racist…:(
bro melayu.. aku cina tapi aku sokong apa yang ko cakap. memang banyak orng bodoh kutuk melayu bila orng melayu nak cuba jadi kaya.. biarlah orng2 tu. tu orng2 miskin.. tapi bagi aku, aku sokong melayu yang sentiasa cuba. aku memang respect melayu yang kaya, of course, kaya daripada perniagaan legal dan bukan kroni. tak apa, skrg dah ade banyak melayu yang kaya dan suka show off dengan supercar mereka.. pergilah ampang tengok. respect kaw kaw kepada uncle2 melayu tu.
Now Malay is very rich already. Not to be racist, Malaysian is separated by race. I respect if we all are playing in the level field. All Malaysian regardless of skin color are given the same opportunity to succeed.
Yes, U re Right bro. I support u 100%. Don’t let one race to dominate the economy. (Hope bro understand what I mean)
If we are Malaysian, you will not say a race is dominate Malaysia economy.
Rileks bro.. you might be ignorant in not knowing that Proton is now owned by DRB after the latter has de-list the former, but your point is valid with regards to the overt critics on the Malay entrepreneur. Good luck with PR in managing M’sia Inc. once they come to power. Tact is utmost importance no matter how valid your battle for fairness is.
Cool Bro. NAP tu dah miss use. We don’t criticize Malay. We criticize Cronies BN for helping people like Syed Mokthar, YTL, Vicent Tan for so long. Peace.
As long as they get govt contract, they are cronies right? Heh.. Forget the fact that some of these entrepreneurs hv proven their beef before they are where they are today. Think positive bro.. Not all success are through backdoor. You’ve got to differentiate the trees from the forest.
yes.. i agreed.
You ganti semua word ‘Melayu’ jadi ‘Kroni’. Nampak beza nya kan???
Melayu tak salah. Tapi siapa yang ternak Kroni cekik rakyat harga kereta mahal itu yang patut mampus masuk neraka.
bro, orang tak kan kutuk kalau bisnes tu betul. korek sikit berapa banyak hutang DRB. they are not car makers, setakat re-branding Pos Malaysia, lepas tu harga setem pun mahal, tu je la sumbangannye…hampeh!
Lepas masuk proton, ape diorang nak buat? beli engine Petronos yg sedekad dulu. Mahal woo engine tu, aluminium..memang la engine bagus. Tapi dah more than 10 years back. Why not just develop engine baru je. JV la ngn Petronas. Engineers Proton pun terer jugak. Tapi sbb management tak nak invest, nak buat keje senang, beli terus pakai je.
Skang nak buat ckd VW, no hal. sebab pusing2, duit proton ke, honda ke, VW ke, masuk poket DRB jugak. The problem why people are giving bad comments is because they are in doubt with the credibility of DRB. Name at least one, satu je, successful business dari DRB..NONE! Syed Mokhtar kumpul aset, utk rotate duit, kasi maintain je business tu. Untung kat die sorang. Pastu si Kamil sibuk jadi chairman sana sini, tapi hampeh, technology pun tak reti.
Kah kah kah…. ckp mcm expert, rupanya info tak tau, ckp ikut sedap mulut. Kan dah kena piang dengan paul tan
Talk kok, talk kok everywhere.
In the end, all these news are nothing more than perencah to goreng share price higher, but nothing’s gonna happen in the end.
Watch out for German medias, see if VW knows any of this at all.
Just like the JV plan with Honda, go ask the Japanese. See if they know about it at all.
Meanwhile in Malaysia, semua kagum bayangan Proton CRZ rm70k, or Proton Polo sedan RM50k. Wake up please. The only thing’s changing is:
1. share price increase
2. Syed Mokhtar sell/delist
3. ????
4. Profit
5. Deal with Honda/VW? What deal?
De-listed is good, you’ll be able to channel the money to the old advisor without people questioning.
Get real, our English is sux also because of political reasons. English is not a ‘must pass’ subject these days?
Last time when VW given u guys a chance as a distributor…u guys (DRB) mess it up…now when Volkswagen Group Malaysia bring the brand up, came back wanna piece of the pie. Come on la DRB, ur Audi after sales pun berterabur…wanna handle Volkswagen pula ke?!
DRB build / assemble cars for Mercedes and VW in Malaysia. What they mentioned is about ‘producing’ VW cars for Asian, and i didn’t find anywhere in the article about DRB want to handle sales of VW. in fact, they want to privatize their marketing arm.
Hello kawan…DRB already got one dealership branch from Volkswagen Malaysia la bro… Ceh!!
http://www.jobstreet.com.my/jobs/2012/10/default/10/1771954.htm?fr=R
Ini apa ke jadah nyer!!
kan aku cakap article tu sebut pasal production… again, the main issue here is PRODUCTION!! production of Mercedes or VW ada problem tak?… why u bring in ‘distribution’ issue with Audi pulak? as the article mentioned, The plan is to list the merged Proton Edar and EON Bhd. Hicom Auto which distribute VW is not in this plan! u faham english or not??..
Yes…I do infact understand English pretty well. How many percentage do people here actually discussing on the matters based on the article alone? If most comment here were against a company which have ZERO credibility…same as your ‘Nick Name’ ler…MOFAZ! All company selling recond car using AP is no more than CRAP! Even some here also complain about aftersales service which have nothing to do about production hub…bottomline is dude, DRB is such a BS company. P.E.R.I.O.D
Even statement like UMNO, Melayu, Kroni…aper?! Ni semua ader kena mengena dgn PRODUCTION ker? Dah nama pun forum…kena plak kompeni cam DRB yang kredibilitinya hampeh…so now, if u could UNDERSTAND a word I’m saying…go n lecture most people here that posted statement that doesn’t even related with PRODUCTION above or go back to your HQ Mofaz and just selling overpriced used car.
Malaysia a hub for the production of Volkswagen vehicles??
don’t tok kok lah!!
should we expect cheaper VW in malaysia?
No, Inspira is more expensive than original made in Japan lancer (langkawi price).
Jazz hybrid ckd is more expensive than made in Japan (fully imported cbu).
Actually the price for VW will be going up. We need to feed the cronies.
Not forgetting Inspira is more expensive than original made in Japan lancer (langkawi price).
Jazz hybrid ckd is more expensive than made in Japan (fully imported cbu).
Yes. A bit cheaper than Audi.
But cheaper than Proton sorry lah mimpi mat jenin
This project might be similar like Avanza,Innova,Hilux and Fortuner produced by Toyota.
Dont think so…
All we VW owners want, is not just cheaper cars, but the most importantly, SERVICE! CUSTOMER RELATIONS/SERVICE.. Because as of now, even proton/perodua customer service is way more satisfactory than VW!
Bro what happen to your VW? And why after sales service sucks?
Mind share? Thanks bro
I have some complaints.. The cars are good, well built, on par with any german rivals, but service is so darn slow and unresponsive. Before i received the car, sales person would never want to disclose the actual delivery date, they finally claimed the wont lie anymore and its up to us to stay or cancel. Every single time there is a problem, minor or major, even to call for regular service, i always have to call back another day to make sure of the service, there has never been a day where they would call incase of additional problems or anything regarding my matter. If your car is in the workshop for a week, its normal. Many times i have called for appt, went and they asked me to wait 3hrs, when they later said im not on the list.. I then have to wait anothe pr month… On and on and on.. The quality of their cars, good. Just customer relations.. Check out their FB, u will see alot of negative feedbacks regarding service.
Its a shame really, u expect great vehicles comes with great service, but VW malaysia service is incomparable with the other rivals.
But its luck really, 90% u will feel stressed regarding their customer relations. Dont make this a problem to stop buying VW cars, you just need patience and when you are pissed enough, they will look at your problems immediately. I have learnt that being public with the problems would encourage them to finally seek a solution.
Love VW, just need to improve service, both pre-sale and aftersales.
Thank you so much bro Farhat, your comments really make my day happy! At least we know VW cars are excellent.
Bro try Glenmarie SC coz heard is good, recommend by one of my best buddie.
Happy New Year & wish u hv a prosperous years.
Pls bloggers mind sharing your VW experience here, I seriously planning to book either VW Passat or VW Cross Touran but I read lots of negative comment on their Wearnes FB, pls pls share!!!!! Appreciate so much :)
Hmmm….so far my experience wt my 2 yr old golf are satisfactory. SC are on par with my other car (Honda). Surprise to hear -ve comment abt VW SC. Go ahead bro, get your PAssat…u wont regret it.
Thanks for the feedback bro :) I really fall in love with VW but this that from all those -ve comments make me “uncertain”
Anyway I wish to read few more comments from other drivers as to why they say so, must be a reason. Maybe u can check it out later at night bro in this website. No harm getting feedback ^_^
Cheers!
The cars themselve are very good, its just the after sales services by local companies need a lot of improvement. a lot of msian is expecting better service with the price of car they paid for VW brands but from experience, that is yet to happen.. hopefully they will learn and improve..
Thanks bro, means the car realibilty almost same as Jap, just that service centre ppl unpro & screw up the whole thing?
If that the main setback I don’t mind, afraid sikit-sikit VW red light on haha!!!!!
Asian Car project?
Isn’t it called Proton at first place? Nanti marah pulak Dr Mamak.
DRB better focus on one brand car lah. Now Honda, VW, Proton, Lotus…kalau pening kepala suruh orang lain kontrol franchise lah…macam takda Kroni lain
change name again eyy..
belum jadi sudah talk cock. get the project moving first then start talking lar …
kalau jalan dulu pun salah jugak. semua salah. For reminder, proton is under DRB and it’s not directly under government anymore.
syed mokhtar…. i wonder why are we forced to feed him
what do we get from this kind of marriage? only a game of richer be richer, poorer be poorer? this is always our best drama.
Relist and delist. Then sell this one buy that one. Sell that one buy next one. Pls focus on making better cars. And don’t be hero wants to own few brands. Already one brand also cannot handle, don’t take more than you can chew. This is the ugly truth and hope the big boss willing to accept it.
Malaysian wants affordable cars with good quality.
Why Malaysian feels that they are being ripped off by the government? Malaysian are smarter now. They can do statistical analysis and compare prices from different countries with different tax structures as well as cost of living and purchasing power. Malaysian knows the economic scale of every countries they are investigated in. This shows that how smart we have become and our concern towards the betterment of our future and our childrens future. If the government do not listen to our needs and make plan and action towards realising our needs, then it is time to make a change. We have the power to decide.
Yes, change to worse…
so true. one race dominate our economy.
Yes, Start with C
And yet still complaining like hell…syoohh..
In Thailand, Toyota is their “national car”.
In Bolehland, post 2016, our “national car” is “VW”!
On the past for Preve time – global small car
Now DRB time – Hub for Asian Car
Post 2016 – VW “National Car”
Perodua is a NO.1 automotive company in malaysia for 7-years in a row.
Congrats!
With only 3 models in showroom, Proton should really learn from them.
Spot on Bro ! Comment of the day ! Proton should learn how to “do more with its limited resources (sarcasm)”.
Again, price is going up for VW cars.
Inspira is more expensive than original made in Japan Lancer (langkawi price).Jazz hybrid ckd is more expensive than made in Japan (fully imported cbu).
Why made in Malaysia is more expensive than made in Japan, where are those additional moneys goes? Who’s pockets?
Yes true even VW pickup Amarok surely price RM150K under DRB
Only rich farmer can afford that price lah stupid DRB
And yet the price I bet is still gonna overprice albeit we becomes a hub.
who says that 2016 our automobile will be more liberal? any source stating that issue? i dont want to be so optimistic then when 2016 comes, all hope gone again. in fact, malaysia is going backward in SEA region. pls buck up rakyat, i dont want my beloved country to become like backward country in Africa.
It’s VW Malaysia should announce this plan not DRB. DRB just Ali Baba partner (reason why VW price expensive to pay unnecessary Ali Baba hidden fees).
Malay said “Banyak kuah dari sudu”.
This is what happen when car dealership not controlled by principal company but through Kroni monopoly. Price at their mercy not based on real market competition.
DRB – Suzuki, Honda, VW, Proton
Naza – Kia, Pug, Cheatroen, Chevy,
Sime – Porsche, Hyundai, Ford, Landrover
Why MITI allow this automotive cartels rule us all? Sick and tired of these monopoly!