In his speech at today’s launch of the Teksi Madani national renewed taxi programme, Malaysian prime minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim announced a new RM10 million matching grant for the trade-in and scrapping of old taxis that’s similar to the one announced in Budget 2026 for private cars.
To jog your memory, in January the transport ministry launched a programme to encourage approximately 5,000 owners of private vehicles aged 20 and up to switch to newer, safer and more efficient vehicles from Proton and Perodua. The carrot? A grant of up to RM2,000 from the carmaker is matched by up to RM2,000 from the government, giving you up to RM4,000 in incentives.
Proton announced shortly after that the Saga and the eMas 5 would be eligible for a trade-in incentive of up to RM1,000 (which the government would match with another RM1,000) and up to RM2,000 (again, plus another RM2,000 from the government) for all its other models.
Today’s announcement encourages owners of old taxis (also around 5,000, Anwar said in his speech) to trade in for the new Proton S70 taxi, with the same RM2,000 + RM2,000 carrot.
We’re told the S70 taxi, free of excise duty and sales tax, will be priced in the region of RM64,500 on-the-road without insurance (compared to RM74,800 for an S70 Premium, including the RM5,000 launch rebate). So theoretically, trade your old taxi in and the new taxi is yours for as low as RM60,500.
Yes, yours. Due to the abolishment of the practice of granting taxi permits only to a select few, the pajak or leasing scheme also comes to an end – the driver will now maintain full ownership of the taxi. Any taxi drivers here? What do you think, and are you compelled to make the switch?
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Vote BN and we will go back to 4k discount for alp rakyat Malaysia without having to sell our data. Inflation will also go bavk to normal instead of today historical highs and still going up under Pakatan rule.Kick Pakatan out and things will go back to normal.I repeat Kick Pakatan out and things will go back to normal!
My foot la. Under BN, taxi drivers were slaves to crony companies, they had to pay rental for using the vehicle and for permit and at the end of it, they would not even own the taxi. and now in this new scheme, they own the taxi themselves and are basically their own boss and do not have to pay anything to leeches.
Typical Malaysian mentally, only know how to criticize without using your brains!
Syabas Good to all S70 owner, all owner now upgraded to become Teksi driver big family
Casual reader would have such casual thoughts
back when BN ruled , USD exchange rate was 4.7, also 1mdb almost bankrupted malaysia. say xnak to BN.
Stop being selective amnesia la. Lots of the time it was under 4.00 for the last decade.
Well, until big mouth talk kok non stop la.
Also what bankrupted? C’mon.
PMX failed to protect our independence and he even sold proton to geely and sold ECRL to china, sorry my mistake that was done by a different PM
Gilakah, taxi driver change car 60k liabilities?
Good move, hopefully Grab drivers chose this. Tired of sitting inside the cramped upright seat of the Bezzas. But that rm65k+ price tag may be too expensive for B40 ehailing drivers.
the high fuel consumption and expensive service maintenance will kill any driver who uses s70 for taxi
So good! Everyone helping MITI and POTONG to gain more sales! it its indeed a good idea for Taxi to get an upgrade… but for who wallets its bleeding?! u cant solve the Grab issue, then now doing this… it seem very beautiful and sweet dream…. but it will turn nightmare very fast….
4k … LOL! just go survey how much inflated the price we get here in malaysia compare to china…. and now they just give back the crumbs!
For some sozai who think 6ft westerner tis and that?! so u only target westerner who call for ur taxi?! LOL then good luck!
This Madani branding is super dumb. Like how KLIA’s main road was rebranded to Lebuh Madani although Anwar had zero credit for establishing it. Now when people hear the word “Madani”, we only think of “You suka?” and other such nasty stuff. Gross.