The government has yet to reveal the company that will be responsible for the new national car project (NNCP), but there seems to be no shortage of interest from parties – and countries – in the project. Earlier this month, the United Kingdom said it is open to working with Malaysia on development of the third national car, and now, Qatar has stated its willingness to participate in the project.
According to a press statement, Qatar has reiterated the country’s willingness to invest in the project in terms of engine development, components, technology equipment or promotion, Utusan Malaysia reports.
The interest from Qatar is not new – last December, it was reported that a sheikh from Qatar had expressed interest to invest up to US$400 billion (RM1.6 trillion) in the project, although entrepreneur development minister Datuk Seri Mohd Redzuan Yusof was then quick to downplay that aspect, stating that while the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) said it was interested to invest in the country, there was no specific mention of it being for the project.
After a period of quiet, activity surrounding the NNCP has picked up again. In March, it was reported that Putrajaya had shortlisted two companies to lead the project – earlier this week, the identity of the bidders emerged, with news reports indicating Alam Perkasa Consortium (APC) and Elenvi Otomotif to be in the running to set up the Malaysian International Motor Company (Mimco), which will build electric vehicles that will go on sale in 2022.
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inb4 where got Arab sheikhs willing to part with billion of RMs for donation to us? Ini mesti gomen curi projek ni kan kan kan?
Everytime I read the the news unfold, I facepalm myself for believe the lie that Najib stole this money.
Rich generous Arab sheikhs from Ipic dan abrar.
PH Nigerian prince even more generous. You just need to keep depositing USD$1000 every month to get USD$1Billion in cash soon.
Neat work Malaysia gomen! Real investment coup if getting the ultra wealthy Qataris here.
By virtue of their substantial auto investments in Fisker Automotive, Volkswagen Group, Porsche and also kelab Paris St Germain.
So sez the folks who disbelieved that 2.6B came from Arab.
Lol! Yeah right. Expect another U-Turn statement tomorrow. Our ministers only shiok sendiri making all these fantastic announcement same like that 1.6Trillion investment.
For USD$400Billion, they could buy 2,000 Neymars, why would they bother investing in a blackhole like Madey’s Malaysia?
US$400billion is more than our whole country’s GDP lol
USD400 bil is more than double Qatar’s GDP LOL!
Massive DONATION in coming!!!
Quick Bank Negara! You must do your job to stop this generous donation from coming in! Don’t repeat the same mistake like before! Stop it before it come in!
Qatar and turkey are allies. They are at loggerheads against saudi, the other gulf states and egypt, which have recently become friendly with israel. While qatar are fruendly with iran.just so you know what is happening as new national car will have turkey partners.
Peluang pekerjaan should be 1st pririority…graduate will watch this 3rd car prjct closely.
Definitely Turkey will victory on P³ project with the help of Ungku Aziz
Definitely Turkey will victory on NNCP with the help of Ungku Aziz
What i just wanna do this time is to laugh.. Hahaha.. Qatar again! RM1.3billion tho..
This is r. Usd400b? So its real? Or just propa?
I have stopped expecting PH to tell the truth about anything.
Yeah Please bring the car in F&F7 here which in the movie can fly…. Thank you
Will the Arab Prince be someone we know so well? By the name Prince Jho Low? LOL
Cannot be. Because they said such generous prince never existed. The only prince they know is Nigerian prince. Haha!
Nobita will next announce the money is real in cold hard cash (uncounterfeited USD bills) waiting the go ahead for shipment and it will come inside a whale called Equanimity. Oops he forgotten that whale has since being sold, now he has no way to transport the money come. Not his fault right? Ini mesti salah Najib kan?
USD 400 bil? It is RM 1,657,600,000,000 and it’s enough to buy 35.5 million units of Myvi. Enough for every Malaysian including babies and still got extra for foreign workers also.
Syukur……more donation (again) from Arab country….