The production of national cars not only aims to expand the country’s manufacturing industry, but also represents a way to train workers in the automotive sector and grow the skilled workforce, prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said at the dialogue session with Educational and Technical and Vocational Training Conference (TVET) held yesterday, Bernama reported.
“Now we know how to make a car and when we (came to) know how to design and produce cars, we also learnt on the engineering involved. We have learnt many things out of just one industry,” he said in response to a question by the Institute of Automotive, Robotic and Internet of Things Malaysia (MARii) CEO Datuk Madani Sahari.
Madani’s question was regarding TVET as an effective method in closing the gap between workers’ skills and the needs of the industry. “Now we not only (produce) cars but we oversee the engine or robot that (produce) the cars, so how we supervise these machines is also a skill needed to manufacture cars in this era,” Tun Mahathir said.
Players in the automotive industry must always enhance their capacities in line with the sophistication of current vehicle technologies, Tun Mahathir said, adding that the manufacture of cars currently are far more complex than that of the first national car, the Proton Saga.
Tun Mahathir noted that other industries such as aerospace also required many skilled workers as they were among the biggest industries producing components in Malaysia, with the country producing aircraft components for Airbus and Boeing, the report said.
“I am confident that Malaysians are no less qualified than the other nationalities, the question is whether they want it or not. If we don’t want to learn, we will be left behind,” the prime minister said.
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Yes, lucky our game changing Perodua car production boosts skilled manpower.
Skilled manpower = stick P1 logo on the boyue
We must be proud of Perodua. Every year, Perodua sales are always 4X or 5X higher than our first game over national carmaker. Now Perodua are going international while Proton unfortunately already game over in International market.
So Toyota, Honda, Kia is also CKD … what’s the big deal here
Apart from sticking the Front and Back emblem
Hahahaha If P1 just stick the logo, X70 is still LHD!
P1 alot ehhh skilled manpower in minum teh tarik n kopi O. Very skilled in goyang kaki n poco poco.
Ini kedai ah beng pun boleh tampal badge
Stop trolling other people’s ID. You have been warned.
Skilled manpower = just good as keyboard warrior lah
Poo2 alot ehhh skilled manpower in cost cutting n downgrading quality from ancient jepunis junk models, even omitting a bloody temperature gauge. Their SA very skilled in goyang kaki n bullshiting carbuyers (esp. waiting period), some insulting carbuyers with ‘Idiot’ or ‘Stupid’ fella when their potential carbuyers enquire about manual cars.
(Like) Proton X70
(Dislike) Hyundai Santa Fe and Hyundai Tucson
Untill today cannot produce indigenous platform design. On the other hand, P1 has built it own platforms, some good enough for rally/racing, good enough for CUSCO to sell a rally car based on the Neo for privateers, good enough for Team PSP to run wajas in BTC, good enough for Welch Motorsports to field two 400 bhp Personas in the BTCC, good enough for Mellors Elliot Motorsports to field the Neo S2000 and now the Iriz.
Sure there were no local drivers and the machines were built by mat sallehs and jippun lang- but that’s the point, they could’ve pick a plaform from a plethora of other established manufacturers but instead they chose P1.
They may not sell that well compared to P2, P1 chassis engineers knows their sh!t.
Perodua indigenous platform are the current Bezza, Axia even local Myvi rebadged by all new Daihatsu Sirion.
So skilled manpower in both national carmakers know how to design and produce cars, we also learnt on car engineering involved.
Bezza is based off Etios, Axia is based off Mira, And Myvi is based off Boon.
What indigenous platform, genius?
You mean P2 boosting trolling and BSing skills, like you have so deftly shown.
Selamat hari lahir Tun! Semoga happy dan sihat alwiz. Now Proton got much improved Campro engine and power window. M’sians confidence in Proton cars again, strong X70 sales is the prove.
Where got campro engine anymore proton use tgdi mills nowadays. It was dsn who sold proton to geely otherwise Malaysian will stuck with exora turbo only. Tun will never allow his baby to be touched meh..
Ya very true. Campro getting improved telan minyak.
Malaysian got confidence in P1 again thanks to Geely kicking out Chedet crony vendors, tq Najib for making that happen.
True dat bro! All filth have been cleansed from P1, now all of them lari to Honda, Toyota, P2, & PeroTiga flying drone projek.
Tun, please divulge how much Gov Grant had been given to P1 since 1981. We, Rakyat has right to know how much already been pumped into P1 to kept it afloat yet, train engineer and manager yet still are losing money. Will PAC open an investigation? or MACC or need a RCI?
minum tehtarik also need skill, must drink with kalipap and pisasng goreng
Easy going lifestyle is crucial for living longer. Those with high pressure jobs tend to die earlier.
Proton is no more our national car.In 2 more years,all the campro powered protons will be history.
Geely would have brought in their right handed versions of sedans and suvs and mpvs to flood the SE Asian market.
It is actually GEELY MALAYSIA BERHAD.,with a camouflaged tiger logo.
At least we get 49 percent from the company…why so ashamed wt rebadge car?everyone doing it…in the end the factory is still in malaysia…gov can collect tax…people can work there….its better than proton being bankrupt….
One (P1) is more than enuff to boost skilled manpower, two (P2) and more (P3) is just crowding the space and cannibalising resources in such a small country. Can alredi see the hundreds of k workers in the automotive industry thanks to P1. If he wants to boost that higher, better let Geely expand P1 factory or even welcome them to make new one and kolos the other national car that is just rebadging rejected dinosars since Day One. All of them r just eating resources and manpower that can better be used by P1 to make gud cars and not rejects for 3rd world countries.
Not from where you left it.
The Tanjung Malim plant was like a ghost town…so called Automotive city…
It’s operator skill he mentioned …And normally only need one man to monitor a lot lines in advanced factory assembling line , it’s all machine now.
After decades years of being “national” car, today it is rebadging a china car.
I guess it is creating skilled-manpower of rebadging car emblem… One and only in the world.
Can’t blame them when Malaysian people prefers rebadge brand products and not our own local creations.