A special 25-member squad that can detect cloned vehicles has been formed, according to the director-general of the Road Transport Department (JPJ), Datuk Seri Ismail Ahmad, Bernama reports.
“The squad can detect whether the vehicles are genuine or cloned just by looking at the body such as the front lamp,” the director-general said. Some 506 cloned vehicles have been seized as of December 31, in collaboration raids with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).
According to Ismail, the number of cloned vehicles ranged in the thousands. “There are 2,000 to 3,000 cloned vehicles on the road and we aim to seize them. Focus is on Negeri Sembilan, Terengganu and Perak as many cloned vehicles were seized there,” Ismail said.
He added, “some people are willing to buy cloned Mercedes-Benz or BMW despite being aware of their dubious status due to the low prices of between RM20,000 to RM30,000.” Ismail advised the public not to buy cloned vehicles as it is an offence under the MACC Act and Road Transport Act. “The risk is very high as the cloned vehicles are not registered and not covered by insurance in case of road accidents,” he warned.
Over in Kelantan, JPJ has seized a total of 96 cloned vehicles from 2014 to January 9, 2016. Makes include BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Subaru and Toyota according to Kelantan JPJ director, Mahasan Mustapa. He stated that cloned vehicles were sold as cheap as RM5,000 for a Honda Jazz and RM25,000 for a Toyota Vellfire.
Those involved in the syndicate have been identified, and their names submitted to the MACC. That said, no arrests of syndicate members have been made in Kelantan, according to Mahasan. He explained that the vehicles were bought from these syndicates through Facebook and Whatsapp. Buyers are mostly in the middle income groups and civil servants.
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Lol! JPJ is the main culprit that running cloned vehicles syndicate la… Pagi2 buat lawak bodoh ni jpj.
Many who got conned buying the cloned vehicles are ordinary kampung folk who would not know what the market price is. They should not punish the buyers.
I like how JPJ response to this. The operation was done in conjunction with MACC, so instead of nipping this at the source (where these cloned car is coming in with zero supervision from JPJ and I assume bribes were involved since MACC was involved), they decide to “fix” it retroactively thru a task force.
anyone tried to clone a veyron?
Proton inspira 1.8 mt + BOT + wide body kit + custom exhaust = EVO X
Customs also having a hand in this by not properly examining these cars at Customs Immigration .
Sorry, noob here. What is a cloned vehicle? Cetak rompak?
a “cloned” car is a car which is illegally imported (usually from singapore), without paying import tax or excise duties. it is then given a forged road tax disc and car ownership grant, then sold to buyers . mind u the car itself is usually fine and safe to be driven.
haha , those squads probably have a hand in this too…
like those chinatown traders , when DBKL comes for checking , they actually get a call from DBKL that they are coming!!!!!!!!
hilarious!
Rakyat are waiting for 30% price drop as promise but still no news…If the car price is reasonable here who want to take risk to buy clone car…
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“The squad can detect whether the vehicles are genuine or cloned just by looking at the body such as the front lamp,” the director-general said.
Biggest joke of the year… and to add to that, didn’t another joker recently said can detect clone cars by looking at the battery? LMAO!
Recently there was a break in reported in JPJ office, guess what was stolen? Blank car cards and also roadtax discs. I won’t be surprised if this is happening often which is why its so easy to clone cars using all these stolen documents.
“Clone Cars”- please define roughly the making process..
Is it anywhere similar to ” replica cars “..?
Can I really buy a rm5000 Honda Jazz?
Where?
Don’t mind buying one for spare parts.
wish only rm5600, jazz not more than rm5000, subaru rm4000, those all SG scrapped car still worth to drive as our used car price still ridiculous
Yup…but bear in minds…you can consume all parts except engine block coz it can’t be registered
hahahahah….I am sure this is not even news. The cloned vehicles has been around for ages. Only “recently” it is surface becoz the problem is out of control.
The culprit?
No need to look far. Just check within JPJ would do.
I don’t know what a cloned car is at this point I’m too afraid to ask
Cloned car means two similar cars bearing exact same registration details (number plate & roadtax) whereby one is legit, while the other is illegal.
Replica car is totally different where people replicate their legit car to look as another higher performance car, hint: BMW M5, Civic Mugen RR… etc
Wait..MACC? What are they doing kay-poh-ing with car related issue? Aren’t they supposed to investigate the RM 2.6B issue?
The biggest culprit of cloned vehicles is jpj people itself. I have been approached before buying such car and usually its the jpj runner that offer such deal.