Japanese automaker Mazda has recently opened up a new plant in the Chonburi province of Thailand. The Mazda Powertrain Manufacturing Plant (MPMT) will now commence production of engines, as the Japanese automaker recently held a ceremony to celebrate the beginning of production.
Already being supplied with SkyActiv-D 1.5 litre diesel engines for the Mazda 2 SkyActiv-D model, the plant is able to produce 30,000 engines per year. According to Mazda, the plant is the second phase in response to the Thai government’s eco-car programme.
“Thailand is our most important production location outside Japan; our first overseas base capable of comprehensive vehicle manufacture, including engine and transmission production as well as vehicle assembly,” Kiyotaka Shobuda, managing executive officer of Mazda said.
Aside from engines, Mazda also manufactures automatic transmissions at the same facility, next to its other plant in Hofu, Japan. It is the brand’s fourth SkyActiv engine production base after its Hiroshima plant, Changan Ford Mazda Engine plant in China and Mazda de Mexico Vehicle Operation plant in Mexico.
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Thanks BN, thai foreign reserve $$$ is almost double than us today. They won’t even accepr RM when i go there last week.
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?
Where’s the ministers that self-praise hiding now??
beribu ribu tahniah Siam berjaya….
The Kampung people cannot see all this. Everything also they will say kita mesti bercukur.
Well, competition is tough nowadays, if we can’t compete, the market will move elsewhere. Thailand seems to be on it’s right track.
our BN gov created auto policy wanted to attract auto makers to produce green car here (eg hybrid engine), but v got nothing till now. still keep the protection policy, who care? buat sendiri, shiok sendiri!
Bolehland auto industry is in Retrenchment mode and Siam ironically still under military rule getting all the FDI. Pontianak gomen sucking Rakyat blood from GST, Tolls, Cukai, korupsi, 1MDB. Tanahair ku mundur
Whats the big deal?
Proton also has the “most important production location outside malaysia” soon in Bangladesh.
Why Thailand, not Malaysia ???? Thailand got boom, flood!!!
simply because THAI dont hv BUMI QUOTA, understand?
UMW,Tan Chong u didn’t mention lah apek
That MAI guy won’t bother by this news. He will come up with newer nonsense rubbish talk about how MAI policy will help create jobs.