It was inevitable that an association would eventually come about, and the name suggested, so here it is – The Edge is reporting that the new national car project might see the involvement of Perodua as the assembler for the car.
The publication reports that DreamEdge, the Malaysian innovation and digital engineering services company chosen as the lead for the project, has sent out feelers to the second national carmaker to participate in the endeavour, essentially as the contract manufacturer for the car. Apparently, both Nissan and Honda have also been approached with regards to this aspect.
Another possibility is for Perodua to assist in the design process for the first model. The Edge said it attempted to contact both DreamEdge and Perodua for clarification, but received no response from both parties.
On August 9, the ministry of international trade and industry (MITI) named Cyberjaya-based DreamEdge as the anchor company for the project, which will see Daihatsu Motor Company providing technological support for the programme. It was stated that the Japanese automaker will not have any equity in the project.
The idea of going with Perodua as the contract manufacturer sounds like a logical choice, given the Daihatsu association and the fact that the automaker has around 70,000 units of build capacity to spare. However, industry sources say there would be a need to reconcile potential conflicts between both parties in terms of product offerings as well as ownership rights associated with vehicle parts currently produced by Perodua.
The as-yet-unnamed new national car model will be a plus-sized B-segment sedan (initially mentioned as C-segment, and later corrected), which would not fall very far from the product scope offered by Perodua through its B-segment Myvi. The new national car will feature either a regular internal combustion petrol engine or a hybrid powertrain.
DreamEdge said an engineering capability model mock-up will be revealed at the end of August, and the first prototype will be shown to the public in March 2020, with the final product scheduled for market introduction in March 2021.
Last week, the government reiterated that it will not provide any financial support for the new national car. According to minister of international trade and industry Datuk Darell Leiking, there will be no bailout for DreamEdge should the private project not succeed.
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It will be built by Perodua too right? Just spill it all out. Tak payah reveal skit skit
Well…now we all know Perodua is the truly game changer manufaturer, rather than game over protong.
This is so shameful. Everything also must ask Perodua to help.
Everything also need Toyota to help.
Local grads that studied automotive engineering cannot help? DRB Hicom cannot help?
Looks like Government themselves got no confidence in DRB Hicom
They got no guts. They can blame them if anything goes wrong. Just as easy as that.
DRB Hicom is not an automaker, why they need to ask help from DRB Hicom?
Since last news mentioned daihatsu will support, so p2 is actually daihatsu in Msia, just with perodua name. Perodua assembling 2nd and 3rd gen daihatsu sirion for Indonesia market, u know, being sold as daihatsu. So basically aruz in Msia is daihatsu terios in Indo, just changing name only.
thx p1 for the good 35yr, Msia is greater again!
Proton state of the art Tg malim plant, lg mantap.
proton fanboy talking
If this is the case then Proton will be game over…
Aruz is game over.
Bezza is game over.
Alza is game over.
For a company to rely on only 2 models (Myvi & Axia), it will soon be game over. Then your career as their sales troll is also game over.
Copy paste: “perodua fanboy talking”
PH whole life daydreaming.
People losing jobs…look at poor Utusan now.
MAS losing billions.
Proton just out of ICU.
Just got out of the khat issue.
Isnt there better ideas to stimulate the economy,than this egoistic hobby of 3 rd national car?
Why not first national bus?
First national lorry?
Aim higher. Next is first national car-pet. Hahaha
So is this Peroduatiga, P2/3, CGP2.5? Do they actually think Pelotua will compete with themselves? What a laugh! Still continuing with this dumb idea and not a single squeak from our castrated ministers in Cabinet. All enjoying they high salaries and building their little fiefdom in their portfolios. Really disappointed with them.
So it is clear then. Dreamedge is just a proxy for Perodua to get this 3rd national car project.
I believe Perodua is also maxing their production for hot selling models like Axia, MyVi and Bezza.
To partner Perodua as the contract manufacturing seems kinda illogical especially for those 2-3 months waiting list waiting to get their cars.
This goes to show something. For 30 years we suffered with Proton and its protectionism. For 30 years we suffered with super high car prices.
And yet, in 30 years, we never learnt to make our own car by ourselves. Why? Proton was a rebadger. And now it is a rebadger.
Perodua also is a rebadger.
So what did local automotive learn?
half of this is bullshit. I can smell some fanboizm tbh.
You are spot on. Perodua 2 plants are already running at 97% capacity. Why on earth would they want to accommodate a low volume, niche market car.
Waste of $$$. Sure it’s another flopped.
Lets see. if price increased by 50sen, it’ll survived.
Expected this to happen. Some assembler will have to step in to help.
3rd National Car
Proposed Company Name: Perotiga_per_dua
Proposed Logo:
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Better Pening3X
joke of the year.
Joke of 2018 – PH got voted
Joke of 2019 – 3rd national is yet another rebadge for cronies untung
Joke of 2020 – flying car-pet
Joke of 2021 – PH laugh all the way to bank while Malaysia suffers
Brrr cool story…. yawnz.
Basher got nothing intelligent to say. Cool story, my toes are frozen.
Die die want national car.. Why so Susah? Just like any national airline, all destined to lose money. This sort of business pls let go and let the private experts run it!
You have to realise the real purpose is not for the company to make money but for the crony vendors kicked out of Proton to make money.
Sure fail because Perodua assembly quality cannot compete in global market.
then can called it Perodua² (Perodua kuasa dua)
lol
I am no doubt DreamEdge can successfully design and built a car by ICE technology with National Car status for sure.
Market? I doubt you will be successful to sell the car for the mass market. Lotus under Geely will be a fully-electric power supercar for the latest model after years not willing to change. Tesla first model was designed by Lotus if not mistaken.
Right now, the world seriously explores to electrify the car so do for the aeroplane, but DreamEdge takes the opposite direction.
the most non-transparent government. always with lotsa surprises that is not favouring the rakyat.
Perodua to help design the car?
Since when did Perodua can design a car? Maybe you meant design the bumper…hahaha…
so in the end, it’s a rebadge daihatsu product. no surprises there.
why the smoke and mirror story about being a 3rd national car ??
The obsession with creating new models is taking its toll.
While the rest of the people are forced to live a gutter lifestyle, we have those in charge scheming to enrich those old horses within the automotive industry.
Reveal the entire supply chain involved if youre so transparent, including the ownerships.
talk east, talk west, in the end back to the same pages.
Once a business entity has been “Nationalised”, it would be a sham, disaster, and money-sucking-monster afterward.
Case in point: “Satu” (1IMBD, KR1M, BR1M, etc) failure.
Agreed. Obamacare was a disaster.
seriously ph will lose my vote in next ge if this shit doesnt stop. dictator m has gone too much this time
So……. at the end
Perodua 2.0?
LPPL?
Take it further than that DreamEDGE. Make your car so easy to manufacture that any car assembly plant in Malaysia (Proton, Perodua, Naza, Inokom, Honda, HiCOM, etc2) can also produce it. We already have so many CKD factories, they can compete on price who can make it the cheapest.
whey they appoint a crony company made up of deadwood ex proton staff who only know to drink coffee and smoke cigarettes. everyone knows who owns DreamEdge. who financed them. please PH Gov. stop this nonsense and focus on what is needed to Make Malaysia best. NNCP and that useless Flying car are making this country become laughing stock of ASEAN.
Ya mari2 beli kereta celup jepun dan wang anda akan disumbangkan ke jepun untuk produksi porno…tambah lagi…jgn malu2
JAV is the only thing today that Japan can export with real quality. Others are just fake quality, really is just sh!t.
What’s the point of having another National car company producing another petrol internal combustion engine vehicle???? Yah, this one got hybrid option but me thinks the petrol engine version will sell the most (of the 2 options). Itu pun dunno can sell enough to cover operational cost, tak payah cakap untung.
Gomen dunno meh? RV for hybrid is shite. See any second hand hybrid cars RV. Even the super duper FC can’t offset the poor RV.
Even if they make PHEV, where in the flat/apartment car park can you charge? Tarik extension wire dari flat/apartment sampai car park???
So what is the paid up capital for this dream edge company anyway? Usd5 billion ka or just rm2 company?
Not important. Got Arab Prince.