Mazda has announced that it has officially opened its Mazda Powertrain Manufacturing Thailand (MPMT) plant, marking the occasion with a ceremony. The facility, which is located in Chonburi province in the Kingdom, is the automaker’s first transmission plant outside Japan.
In January this year, the facility began production of the company’s new SkyActiv-Drive automatic transmissions, which are also made at the Hofu Plant in Japan. Production capacity at MPMT is 400,000 units per year, and the transmissions made at the plant are set to be supplied to the automaker’s vehicle production facilities in Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Mexico and China.
Pilot production of the SkyActiv-D 1.5 litre diesel engine has already begun at the engine plant at MPMT, which is due to begin mass production in the last quarter of 2015 when the plant begins assembling the 105 hp oil burner for the Mazda 2 SkyActiv-D sold in the Thai market. The Thai engine plant will initially offer a production capacity of 30,000 units per year.
The company says that the start of series engine production will mark the completion of a comprehensive framework for the production of SkyActiv models in Thailand, covering the manufacture of engines, transmissions as well as vehicle assembly.
Mazda 2 Sedan SkyActiv-D
Thailand 1: Malaysia 0
Yet another blow to Malaysians and a few thousand or maybe tens of thousands jobs are lost because our Ministers believe in crony practice.
Malaysians have already suffered so much. For 30 years, 30 million people suffer so much. We struggle paying for our high car prices all because of one man’s dream of benefiting his friends and relatives through the AP system and the government protecting Proton.
Malaysia was on its way to becoming the Detroit of Asia in the 90s. But the AP system cost us hundreds of billions in ringgit in investments from car companies who moved to Thailand and Indonesia. Car companies got fed up with Malaysia’s MITI for protecting Proton and telling other companies what to price their cars. They got sick and tired of the AP system and how genuine brands cannot get enough APs to import their cars in (like Mercedes, BMW and Honda).
They thought that if they set up their brands and plants in Malaysia, they knew they had to share the pool of APs with the cronies and they knew 90% of all APs go to the cronies. They all moved their operations to Thailand making it the AutoCity of the world.
Recently GM announced that they rolled out already 1 million cars from Thailand. Imagine if GM was in Malaysia and we taxed GM RM10,000 per car. Calculate that with 1 million cars. Just from GM alone, we lost Billions in USD. Imagine what will the amount be from other car companies if they had set up in Malaysia?
Because of Mahathir and his AP system, as well as Proton, we lost hundreds of billion of ringgit in investment and trillions of ringgit from jobs lost. If Malaysia was the autocity of Asia, hundreds of thousands of jobs would have been created for Malaysians. We lost all that. Trillions of Ringgit and hundreds of thousands of jobs. Now, Thailand is benefiting from this trillions lost.
So, in summary, the 30 PEKEMA AP members and Proton have solely caused Malaysia to lose trillions in investments.
A word of caution to the idiots at MAI and the idiots in MITI, Malaysia might even lose existing companies who are already CKDing in Malaysia. BMW, Mercedes, Nissan, Honda and Toyota might even close up their plants in Malaysia to open up in Thailand.
This is so worrisome. Despite Thailand having an unstable economy with riots and bombing, no stable government, yet car companies still prefer Thailand to Malaysia. Makes us wonder…..what is wrong with Malaysia?
This is the biggest RM2.6 billion question?
I’m not disagreeing with you but nice copypasta.
It’s Thailand 2 : 0. Thailand first supercar going into production soon. Our Malaysian Proton first supercar is still being sketched since 1990. Proton at its best !.
Tahniah Dr.M selaku bapa otomotif Thailand!
Does this mean that the current Skyactiv engines and transmissions used in the CKD Mazda 2 and 3 in Malaysia is sourced from Japan?
Err, isn’t that obvious……Mazda cars that are not CKD are CBU from Japan only besides the BT50 and Mazda2
Ya, we dont know all this foreign investment because we have BR1M to give away money from Gov…
but they dont know where the money come from? its from the rakyat or the economy!
I wonder some think the Gov can just print money to spend without income (one of it is GST!)
Thailand ke arah kuasa besar,
Malaysia ke arah Zimbabwe
RM1 trillion = 1USD
As long as its not a kimchi, it will have RV