Over the last two months, the Road Transport Department (JPJ) had seized 22 cloned cars. With several luxury models included, the value of the 22 seized vehicles amounted to nearly RM1 million, according to the New Straits Times.
“This is the result of people dreaming of owning luxury vehicles which they can ill afford with their income. Thus, they take the easy way by purchasing cloned vehicles that are sold at low prices,” said Terengganu JPJ director, Abdul Rahman Emang Anyie.
Adding the 2016 haul to the tally, 254 cloned vehicles in total have been seized since the crack down began last year. The list of recently seized vehicles include a MINI, Subaru Impreza, Honda Jazz, Honda City, Honda Odyssey and Toyota Wish. It was also previously reported that Terengganu registered the highest number of seized cloned cars thus far.
“A cloned Honda Odyssey is sold at around RM12,000 compared with the original price exceeding RM100,000,” Rahman explained. The JPJ director said that the proposition of buying a cloned vehicle is very attractive to locals, especially when syndicates know how to directly approach potential buyers, on top of placing several advertisements online that flaunt low-priced vehicles.
It was previously estimated that anywhere between 2,000 to 3,000 cloned cars still remain on the road, and that the government has lost out on some RM100 million in tax revenue because of this. Cloned cars are usually foreign vehicles that appear as Malaysian-registered vehicles using identical number plates taken from similar legitimately-registered vehicles.
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“This is the result of people dreaming of owning luxury vehicles which they can ill afford with their income. Thus, they take the easy way by purchasing cloned vehicles that are sold at low price”
Yalah….if got donation who want to take this risk…
Just wondering will the JPJ saman or arrest the buyers too??? Since the buyer own more then 1 of the cloned cars !!!
tangkap sindiket JPJ & Puspakom makan suap
actually some of the seized cars are not really luxury in its origin country, only when arrived in malaysia all the affordable brand automatically became so called luxury car with absurd price tag
All these wouldn’t have happen if Singaporean used car can be sold legally as with any other used car from other countries.
Banning the selling of SG used car, the most logical explanation is to prevent the market being disrupted, especially periuk nasi AP king. But it’s proven banning isn’t effective.
Lift the ban, allow these cars to be sold, registered, ie provide avenue to legalise it, everyone win-win.
As it is now, only AP king, leeches and certain JPJ officers that makan suap to allow cloning to happen are the only winner. Rakyat’s safety be damned.
First, comment from JPJ is not welcome. Just do your job.
Second, just remove unreasonable taxes for car and made it easy for importing procedure.
Found out my car got cloned recently when I received a speeding ticket (saman) in the mail. If you own a cloned car, keep a low profile la. Drive within the speed limit, do not break the traffic law… menyusahkan orang aje. The hassle that I had to go through… had to visit a couple of police stations to make the report and to verify the summon and eventually had to go to Bukit Aman to cancel the traffic ticket because apparently only Bukit Aman can do it. Imagine if you live in Perlis or Kelantan!
Some people may think that if they own a cloned car they didn’t really do anything wrong. It’s an “innocent” act of breaking the law and they didn’t harm anybody. Well… THEY ARE WRONG!
legalize sg car import, lower down your excise and import tax, revise all second hand car value, let proton fight on the same field, make buyer happy with lot of affordable choices and grow malaysia automotive industry
The main problem is a corrupt govt that imposes heavy taxes and penalties if we want to buy decent cars. This cloning of vehicles is no different that pirated dvds or smuggled beer, the people dont want to be cheated by unfair tax penalties. The govt calls it ‘illegal’, i call it ‘fair’.
Just wondering.
Cloned cars have fake road tax sticker as well?
road tax is genuine. keyword : re-print.
We only hear of clones cars getting confiscated.
Why the tai kor behind this syndicate
is never brought to court and charged?
JPJ only going after the end users and yet the big fish always gets away scot free.
JPJ don’t dare investigate upline. ??
………….and later JPJ found out that the clone syndiket was from within…..
hahahahaha.
This can be blockbuster movie material…