Yesterday saw the launch of the fifth edition of the Perodua Eco-Challenge, and for 2013 a total of 10 institutions of higher learning will be taking part. The challenge this year involves redesigning a Perodua Myvi into a totally different look, by December.
The institutions taking part in this year’s Eco-Challenge are Universiti Selangor, Universiti Teknology Petronas, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (NEW), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN) and Politeknik Ungku Omar.
Perodua president and CEO Datuk Aminar Rashid Salleh said that the participating teams will not only have to make the car more fuel efficient, but also have to improve on its design to suit the needs and lifestyle of the Malaysian public.
A new ‘Styling’ category has been added and will be an integral part of the challenge, with each team having to make its car marketable in terms of both look and design. Other categories for this year’s Eco-Challenge include ‘Long Distance’, ‘Engineering’, ‘Time Attack’, ‘Marketing Challenge’ and ‘The Overall Champion’ category.
“To make things even more interesting, each team must have the Perodua name in their finished product; such as the Perodua Dreadnaught or the Perodua Flash – for example,” Aminar said.
He added that in conjunction with celebrating the company’s 20th anniversary this year, Perodua will be increasing the total prize money by 23% to RM127,000 from the RM103,000 offered for last year’s challenge. On the whole, the company has spent some RM6 million for the eco-challenge programme since it began in 2009.
Read our coverage on the 2012, 2011 and 2010 editions of the Perodua Eco-Challenge for the list of past winners.
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Redesign a myvi? Hilarious. Come on p2. Do something more feasible
what? all they do is bring outdated Daihatsu cars and assemble them and sell them . no innovation and no R&D. P2 is a joke..
Im a medical student from perlis, can i help unimap team with their exterior design? I cant draw lungs and hearts verywell but car sketching is my expertise xD
Instead of paying millions to renowned car designer company..perodua can cut cost by outsourcing new car design to college students.
Perodua gets a free ride from government protectionism and practically gets free money with the governemnt forcing people to buy Proton and Perodua and yet they give a disgrace sum of RM127,000? Malu betul. For such a rich company with free support from the government protecting them, they should at least give RM1 million prize.
Btw, sorry my avatar seems to be down!
seems u use auto-liker aa..? smells sumthing fishy here..
re-design? they can not even change the colors of the car as they need to get permission from Japan 1st. Daihatsu will never allow the to change anything. we all know that P2 does not have any R&D facility. this can be a joke. P2 is no innovation and no passion just CKD assemble and sell.
errr..do you have any proof on this?
where do you get the source from?
if Daihatsu never allow to change anything, then how can they change the headlights,bumpers all those?
of coz they already got permission la.. then only can proceed..
i used to be p2 staff before anyway..
come-on robot boy.. P2 has they own R&D department.. in fact, they have a huge factory at Rawang.. i’ve been there last week.. sorry can’t provide any pictures.. I do met their CEO at our visit.. well.. P2 is quite good..
Anthony, you forgot one more participant, Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN)
Oh dear, missed that completely! Added in. Thanks for the spot, doc.
quote: “A new ‘Styling’ category has been added and will be an integral part of the challenge”
Styling… isn’t this the job of an Ah Beng workshop and not the work of universities?
I won’t be surprised if they come with with a 1Malaysia Styling… you know, everything got to be 1
R&D? Myvi is rebadge from Toyota. What R&D you want to do, P2? Make it from aluminium can to improve fuel efficiency and add body kit like Ah Beng style to suit Malaysian?
got la r&d. how to make p2 car cheaper and low quality than ori daihatsu. check asean ncap and euro ncap..difference between sirion n myvi crash test. look at A-pillar. our myvi bend more than sirion.
do you think it is easy as ice kacang to make a car and fulfil all safety regulation, emission regulation?P2 is still learning from Daihatsu.this eco challenge is a step for student to understand car design by educate them with modification and testing(some kind of try and error).give support la!unless you have some better cars to donate to these students, then I salute U.
Perodua have been well established long time ago. They should know Malaysian markets well. Don’t ask ppl opinion n take those idea as their new facelift for P.Myvi. Even though prize is only in term of number, they earn easy money by obtain ppl idea n build it. Those profits goes into their pocket easily without hurting their brain to think.