According to a report by Berita Harian, car companies in Malaysia are unable to provide official pricing for certain models as they have yet to receive the approval from a government body.
Among the affected models include the Proton X70, which is slated to make its official launch debut on December 12. The SUV isn’t the only one either, as the Honda HR-V RS revealed in July 2018 has yet to be given an official price, although Honda Malaysia is currently accepting bookings for the B-segment crossover.
The list also includes Toyota models like the Rush and Vios, as well as from other makes, with just estimated pricing being made available for now.
The government body in question is comprised of various government ministries and departments, including the Ministry of Finance (MoF), Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), Royal Malaysian Customs Department and Road Transport Department (JPJ).
Datuk Aishah Ahmad, president of the Malaysian Automotive Association (MAA), said, “the approval from the ministry is a little slow and this is a fact. Among the factors are the change in government and introduction of new rules.”
“Previously, the MoF provided the approval, but now, most processes involve the government and must go through MITI, MoF, the Customs Department and JPJ. Therefore, many cars that are set to be launched have not been approved by the government in relation to the Industrial Adjustment Fund,” she added.
However, Aishah stated that the pricing of vehicles is still very much at the discretion of car companies. “If [they] want to sell it at a high price, it’s doable, but market conditions are the most suitable to determine pricing,” she noted, adding that consumers will always witness the competition between automotive companies to determine and obtain the product that best fits their needs.
“In the meantime, industry experts and market analysts are skeptical about the delayed approval of new vehicle pricing, believing the industry could face problems in the future. Industry sources say the automotive industry should adopt an open market and allow for more competition while offering equal chances,” Aishah commented.
“There is still protectionism in the local automotive scene for the benefit of certain industry players. We should allow for more competition so consumers are given better choices when it comes to vehicle prices,” she continued.
The MAA president also claimed competition between car companies could have a role in the delay of new car price announcements. This is because companies may want to wait for their competitors to take the first step in announcing their prices before they make their move.
Other possible reasons for the delay in announcing vehicle prices, Aishah said, is the uncertainty involving the tax mechanism used and special incentives provided to car companies. The latter includes things like Energy Efficient Vehicle (EEV) status, as well as any incentives associated with fully-imported (CBU) and locally-assembled (CKD) models.
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all waiting with bated breath. Camry & Vios prices
Official pricing for the Toyota Camry is already out: https://paultan.org/2018/11/22/klims18-new-toyota-camry-launched-2-5v-rm190k/
Great info! No comments on the new Toyota prices? You should do a piece on that.
Aishah used to fight for the rakyat for lower car prices once upon a time.
Then previous corrupted Government gave her Datukship
Now she fights for higher car prices and more taxes to benefit the Government
Amazing how someone can be bought
Geely made in China ..But claims to be national car… then all CKD cars can be national ..eg.Umw has local shareholders too… the chinese saw our policy loophole and abused it
You need to read up more on equity. Understand significant shareholders of Proton as compared to other CKD makes.
Geely already kelentong Malaysia. Previous Gomen not so clever to see contracts and see terms
Bare in mind transportation is BASIC NEED and should be lowest price for all but unfortunately been tax ~100% brainless. Just look at new Camry kosong planned selling 190k est from 140k previously, under new gomen car price look increased, this signal us the new introduction excise duty cbu ckd tax sst is even more worst.
Frankly the gomen should only impose 2 types of car tax, (1)Sales Tax (income tax) & (2)CKD/CBU (promote local assembly) standard across fare & square, and the Excice Duty should removed. Other greentech investment should park under special investment incentives. Its totally incorrect the gomen to tell you, you and you car maker should sell at what price…
Time to close MAA. All they do is tabulate data.
Why waste money to upkeep this department? MAI and MAA need to close down
MAA is just another Government body set up to do work once a month. While we all work for 20 days in a month, MAA workers just work 1 day in a month, 29 days just lepak and relax
That one day, just to make tables and charts on monthly car sales
MAA never made noise about Geely getting tax benefit through the back door.
Honda, Toyota and Nissan has invested tens of billions of ringgit the past 50 years in Malaysia to gain CKD status.
Geely overnight got tax benefit of local car status for just RM170 million
MAA very quiet about this
They want you to buy lower quality Proton to support local cronies la.
While they drive Mercedes, Porsche. Even TDM family has Porsche, and PAS has S-class.
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Please elaborate back-door tax?
Are you sure others have individually invested 10s of billions, or are you just giving a ball park figure you think its safe taking a quantum they have expended in Malaysia for other purpose ie marketing and sales?
It is only fair if you consider only investments for the purpose of full localization ie engine manufacturing facility (Safety AA components) which ALL foreign companies have avoided from investing in Malaysia for such facility because they want to protect their own manufacturers in Japan and Thailand.
In short, a similar investment in any other country from Malaysia will not gain you substantial tax benefit due to local protectionism, so stop hitting Malaysia under the belt.
Previous Government sold our national car company to foreigner. We got no more control over P1
Old engine for over price
Why are car prices expensive? It is because Government has to upkeep unnecessary departments like MAA. So, they pass the buck by selling cars with high prices.
Once you close Government departments like MAI and MAA…..you will see car prices being dropped
Yeah Toyota and P2 did that since day 1
MAA is government body, hahahahahaha
Nearly All car companies are owned by the Government.
This is why they keep car prices high. To untung kerajaan. They don’t care about the people at all
All this started with old Government before.
Sick and tired of MAA. They just do nothing and get gaji buta. New Government must look into unnecessary spending
Since when governement pays MAA?
Malaysia is the only country in the world that determines car prices. All other countries leave it to demand and supply.
These are bad habits brought from the past to protect Proton. Until today, we are still protecting Proton.
Time we stop protecting Proton. Ask Honda and Toyota, their City and Vios, they want to sell it at RM50k to RM60k. But MITI does not allow it.
Why must MITI prevent Toyota from selling their cars cheaper? It only benefits the rakyat.
MAlaysia is the ONLY country in the world where the Government asks car companies to INCREASE their car price.
MAI and MAA told the rakyat to move towards EEV 7 years ago.
So Honda and Toyota invested billions to set up platns to CKD Prius, Insight, Civic, Jazz etc in Malaysia.
MAI and MAA told these companies if you CKD EEV cars and Hybrid cars, your cars will be tax exempt.
Now, it seems all sudah jadi kencing.
Rakyat also bought thousands of EEV cars to support Government move towards EEV and Hybrid
Your jepunis overlord hybrid cars no RV, tipu punya
Nobody waiting with bated breath. Camry and especially Vios is Super Fugly. Just see the car no need to know the price.
Xde guna ambil ramai kakitangan kerajaan macam tu. Baik berhenti je. Kerja pun lambat.
Stail oghang lama …kaji kaji kaji
Baca betul-betul, dulu hanya perlukan MOF untuk bagi approval, sekarang di bawah kerajaan baharu,kena minta sampai empat kementerian/agensi. Style orang lama lagi efisyen
Benda mcm ni, kaji3.
Yg lain seperti kasut hitam, swimming pool hotel, semua tutup 1am, tak payah kaji – tembak je
UMW is like kakitangan kerajaan. Do little work but expect big pay 5 figures. This is why UMW charges a lot. They have to feed their lazy GLC staff who are demanding more and more money
Tun said our civil service is over bloated…
The 1.6 juta gomen servants can literally overwhelm the
PLA of communist China with only 1.3 juta.
In other words,they can fight a nuclear war with USA(theoretically),but the fact is most of them r political appointees or just making up the numbers.
Just pathetic,even simple pricing takes so long,or they r still thinking of over protecting proton.
1.6 million Government servants still cannot work fast to get the pricing done quick.
We need to investigate why the 1.6 million Government servants are taking so long
You mean those armies doctors nurses teachers also work for the pricing?
This is joke of century! Haha!
armies doctors nurses teachers not counted Government servants weii
In bolehland they are counted as govt servant. >1M are them
Go get your own nick, when you say million, you counted them in!
Menteri skrg sibuk buat kerja SPRM, Polis dan Pemberita yg suka cari dan dedah skandal kerajaan dulu. Kerajaan skrg masih bmyk berfikiran ala pembangkang. Sampai lupa kerja hakiki yg mereka dh jd kerajaan dan jalankan urusan lain.
Saya sokong kuat bruh, kami bagi diorang kerja 5 penggal barulah biasa Menteri2 ni
MAA has over 100 over staff. Per annum you need about hundred million ringgit just to maintain the staff
And what do they do? They just collect all data from each car company and tabulate the data. Collecting also so easy. Every month car companies have directive to give MAA their numbers sold
A job that even a Form Five student can do. Why don’t be just do that? Employ an external person to tabulate this data
MAA is distributor n manufacturer organization
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
This is actually a good strategy to slow down sales
See? Told ya got pricing issues.
Proton X70 & Toyota Rush ckd from RM74k.
Wow… As usual MAA has outdone itself in coming up with ‘creative’ excuses justifying the sheers incompetent of its members… And really you need 4 ministries to approve car prices…. That is definitely a good use of tax dollars….
Political parties may change but it is still the same lazy dungus running the Government. Irrespective who runs the Government, you still got the SAME Government workers
I think we are going to say goodbye to price setting of cars for decades when no outside cars can compete directly with proton. All new vios maybe 60-65k.. Even closer to persona.
Still working on mechanism to artificially jack up car prices.
In another words, prices of cars is going up and up. Can alredi see this with new Camry incoming.
Bro, only for Camry is already CBU known as imported from hailand
Aiyark, later he say X70 oso CBU from chn
Bro, only for Camry is already CBU known as imported from thailand
Nope. Even local CKD City Hybrid sales is put on hold pending price revision. Is this CBU? Nope.
UMW is Government. UMW also full of kakitangan kerajaan. They demand fat pay. So UMW have to charge high high for Toyota to feed these kakitangan kerajaan
If UMW is Government, then who is running the Government? What is PH doing, minum teh 8x a day and sending their minions come here talk bollocks? I alredi say, dun reply me with ur dupe stupidity. When u can korek a sliver of common sense somewhere, then only come reply me.
john, tak payah bising here. This is a car blog. Talk about cars and not your paranoia
Problem with Proton X70 is they cannot bring in more than 10000 units under CBU agreement or AP. Otherwise, it will flood the market and doesn’t benefit other OEMs with local assembly investments. CKD will only start by middle of next year. That’s why ministries including MITI, MOF, Customs involved. JPJ involved in homologation for China imported X70. New govt is really doing it’s job unlike previous one, who just approves based on “EEV status”?
We don’t care about the China brand, what is the excuse for the local car assemblers?
Don’t make any stupid statement pls..aiyoo
nonsense
Bloody nonsense. Does Char Kuay Teow price need approval by the Authorities?
I think we need a new President of MAA. Its about time don’t you think?
Malaysian National Cars:
Proton badge, redesigned by Proton, sold in Proton showrooms and service by Proton workshops.
1) Proton Perdana RM104,000
2008 Honda Accord (8th GEN) RM149,800
2) Proton Inspira RM91,999
2011 Mitsubishi Lancer EX RM118,000
3) Proton Ertiga RM56,773
2012 Mitsubishi Ertiga RM80,000
4) Proton X70 RM??? (Wish to sell high price in Malaysia)
Geely Boyue @ China RM68,500 (110,000 Yuan)
“The Geely Boyue is currently priced around RM68,500 (110,000 yuan) in China, while competitors such as the Honda CR-V and Mazda CX-5 are sold at over RM100,000. But its (the rebadged Boyue’s) features, affordable price and attractive design will be a game changer to the SUV market,” the source claimed.Jan 5, 2018
Maybe the delay is due to the “impact” of prices on other marques and SST.
It’s a free market, why does the price need approval? No wonder nothing moves here in this country. Ringgit is going down the drain, investors are pulling out of the country, ppl are getting retrenched.. The list goes on… But none is positive.
She actually admitted it:
“There is still protectionism in the local automotive scene for the benefit of certain industry players. We should allow for more competition so consumers are given better choices when it comes to vehicle prices,” she continued.
LOL still not free market price. 3rd world country policy. Let the market decide on price not the government.
Vehicles’ pricing require government approval because there are element of incentive in the structure. Making it worst that the incentives vary from one company to another .. apparently the new government has got to figure out first on whats the rationale. Don’t blame the government ..
Until now dont know the price of X70 yet, how to buy?? Wasting people time..
Right, like it is such a great secret.
Kita Perlu Kaji Lagi …….
Harga tak boleh murah sangat.
I think this has to do with protecting market for the 3rd Malaysian car. Old man screwing up free market gain.
Most likely, some one wanted the price been check to prevent “under price” and tax avoidance.
Some has start to lay the platform to ensure new 3rd national car is always lower price than others! We wait and see!
Tak suka duduk Malaysia, boleh keluar.. kahkahkah
Sila datang mas.. jawa bugis minang hihih
Car prices should be left to market forces.
proton laju pula harga approve…. apasal kereta lain lambat.