Even though the third-generation Perodua Myvi was never officially sold in Japan, used car dealers in the country are bringing in units of the hatchback, with two examples available for purchase through Carsensor.
Both are Advance variants, which is one of four options available to Malaysians when the Myvi G3 was first introduced back in November 2017. As such, they feature a 2NR-VE 1.5 litre naturally-aspirated four-cylinder petrol engine that made 102 hp and 136 Nm of torque. The Dual VVT-i mill is paired with a four-speed automatic transmission driving the front wheels.
The Glittering Silver unit has a surprisingly low mileage of 14,200 km and is priced at 1.6 million yen (RM53,085), which includes the vehicle body and miscellaneous fees. Meanwhile, the Lava Red example costs more at 1.7 million yen (RM56,408), and its mileage is even more surprising at just 6,222 km. For reference, the Advance when it was initially launched in Malaysia was priced at RM55,300 on-the-road.
The two Myvi units available for purchase are 2018 model year units and mostly stock, save for an aftermarket head unit on the dashboard that includes a TV tuner and satellite navigation. There’s also a card reader for Japan’s electronic toll collection (ETC) system located in the cubby below the air-conditioning controls.
It’s certainly interesting to see a Malaysian car be imported into Japan, much less two. It should be noted that the Myvi G3 has appeared in Japan before when one unit was displayed at Daihatsu Motor’s head office in Osaka a few years ago.
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of all the interesting choices of their own homegrown cars, why the Myvi? does the Myvi even do well in winter and ice? just asking and i don’t mean to question the King haha
myvi also consider their own homegrown cars it’s technically a rebadge daihatsu lol. not hating on p2 or p1 but most of malaysia ‘national car’ are just rebadge car now or are very old model that had been selling for more then 5 year and got a refresh then calling it a 2023 model lol.
The myvi is not a rebadge daihatsu. Sirion is a rebadge myvi. Look it up. Be proud of your country for once.
everybody knows it’s a rebadged sirion lah. i meant the original car was built specifically to japanese regs and taste and is probably better specs so why the downgrade in the form of the myvi
the latest sirion is actually a rebaged myvi. not the way around
seriously, look it up before commenting. be a civilized person and comment not with assumptions but information.
come on… pdua all rebadge la. no r&d and just riding on toyota/daihatsu models. What to be proud of, its a fact.
It’s just value for money with Japan technology.
Finally P2 fanbois can crow even louder to say their cars now sold in Jepun but never will admit caveat that these are basically AP and used 2nd hand. Meanwhile P1 had earlier sold through official distro channels via CUSCO a well known Jepunis auto brand.
Let their crowing begin!
And that is better because Potong can afford to pay some company to sell their half-ass cars? Well done, Harimau Malaysia Fanboi!!!
Proton Cusco tak laku pun.
The first owner and the Perodua salesman of the units must be super proud. Congrats.
dahsat oooooo….
Hebat la Perodua! Kipidap Malaysia! #MalaysiaMadani
im really curious….why would anyone in japan a used myvi? they have better, cheaper used car right
They have vending machines selling used panties in Japan. Anything is possible there lol
Eat this Proton!
Its their own car la…. Own engine and platform.. Different Headlamps and bumpers wont make it ‘import’ for them…
All hail to the King
Just curious how the owner suffering in the winter without heater from MDM Myvi?
3rd world car in Japan? What a shame
Japanese cars ain’t that first world either. Drive any Merc (non-commercial vans and trucks) then drive any Jap cars…the difference is day and night. Of course, any Jap cars, even Daihatsu, can wipe the floor with Potong or Perutdua! The QA between Jap and Malaysia Daihatsu or Perutdua isn’t the same, even if they roll out from the same Perutdua factory for Daihatsu Indo market..
When I was working in South Korea (non-automotive), the basement carpark of my luxury apartment building used to regularly have the latest automobiles from other parts of the world within a short period of the cars being released. You’d mainly see foreign luxury cars but sometimes small runabouts as well. I was later informed that some of the tenants in our apartment were senior executives of a famous Korean car brand and that various makes and models would be regularly purchased by the company for testing, benchmarking, and even dismantling them to improve their own car designs and manufacturing methods. Why they were back to apartment and not kept in the factory I will never know, maybe part of the testing involved real world usage. Considering the relatively successful sales of Myvi here in Malaysia, I wouldn’t be surprised that some Perodua units have ended up in Japan and South Korea for the above purpose, or atleast just to see how far or how close we are at catching up to them and to maybe benchmark our cars against their product offers and to develop future cars to sell to us when it is time to upgrade from trusty Myvi.
So, what are you trying to imply? That Japanese car companies import Perutdua Daihatsu to see how “good” they are compared to Daihatsu Jepun? Boi, if that’s the case, those Jap got some serious problem! Malaysia is still firmly stuck in 1st gear as far as tech/engineering talent-wise. Even our southern peninsula neighbour has more talent than the whole Malaysia!
Cool story bro
Haha Proton Guuly can sell second hand car shop near great wall sure got suxer buy so call Volvo tech car
Knowing perodua engineers are sent to Daihatsu in Japan for collaboration of product development, could these units have been imported to make the Malaysians engineers feel less home sick?
would be interesting if it is Bezza. (which is not a toyota/daihatsu line up)
Nanti myvi jadi king of the road kat jepun pulak