Updates on Satria Replacement Model from Proton Cars Australia
GoAuto carries some news on Proton's model timeline for the Australian market, which could give us a guideline on when models will be released on our own shores. Probably take off a …
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Race Rally Research Australia
Proton Cars Australia intends to set up their own Race Rally Research divison within seven months, based on the Lotus Sport franchise. Proton Cars Australia MD John Startari said Proton Cars Australia's …
MKN Motorsports pitching for Hybrid APs
MKN Motorsports Sdn Bhd is pitching for APs to import hybrid cars like the Toyota Harrier Hybrid and the Toyota Alphard Hybrid into Malaysia. MKN Motorsports currently imports luxury cars and sells …
NAP After-Effects: Perodua slashes prices by 4%
An update on Perodua's price cuts. Instead of the previously reported figures, car prices will be slashed by 4% for it's Myvi, Kelisa, Kenari and Kancil models except for the Kancil EX660 …
DRB-HICOM aggresive CKD plans
DRB-HICOM plans to aggresively start CKD operations following the announcement of the National Automotive Policy in order to capitalise on new opportunities and incentives that arise directly or indirectly through the new …
Government not happy with minimal car price reduction
We've seen some effects of the new National Automotive Policy only 3 days after it was announced. Most manufacturers have announced that their CKD vehicles would cost less. Proton says it would …
NAP After-Effects: Mercedes Benz CKDs cheaper, CBUs to cost more
DaimlerChrysler Malaysia is reducing the prices of it's CKD Mercedes Benz luxury cars across the board in the range of 6.5% to 10%, with immediate effect. DCM CEO Datuk Frank Steinleitner gave …
Ssangyong Rexton II
Ssangyong Motors, a Korean company owned by the Chinese firm Shanghai Auto Industry Corp (SAIC) will be launching it's new Ssangyong Rexton II at the end of this month. When the Ssangyong …
Khazanah may take Proton private
Khazanah Nasional Bhd may be considering taking some government-linked companies private to help with their restructuring process in order to achieve KPIs. Earlier this week, K&N Kenanga had already speculated taking Proton …
Customs CBU Vehicle Gazetted Price List
The following is the Royal Malaysian Customs gazetted CBU vehicle price list for alot of cars that are normally brought into Malaysia in CBU form. Please refer to the new National Automotive …
Flexi-fuel Cars run on gasoline and alcohol
Flexi-fuel vehicles, short for “flexible-fuel†or “dual-fuel†vehicles are cars that can run on two sources of fuel. Common flexi-fuel vehicles run on gasoline and ethanol. Our Malaysian taxis are also flexi-fuel …
NAP After-Effects: Proton to reduce prices
Proton M.D. Syed Zainal Abidin Syed Mohamed Tahir told press today that Proton would be reducing the prices of it's cars across the board by 2% to 5%. Proton also aims to …
Satria Replacement Model in April?
A report by New Straits Times says Proton expects to launch a new model in April. This could most likely be the SRM as I don't think there's any possibility of a …
NAP Tax Rates
Here are the new National Automotive Policy tax rates as of 22nd March 2006. Completely Knocked Down (CKD) Cars Completely Built Up (CBU) Cars For the old tax rates, refer to this …
Joke of the day millenium
The Government had never supported us and did not give us a chance. It must assist us now and I hope that it will be done. The above line was quoted by …
Thoughts on the National Automotive Policy
The new National Automotive Policy was released on the 22nd of March 2006. We've waited in anticipation for it for quite some time now. Most of us are primarily concerned on how …
NAP After-Effects: Perodua reduces prices
With the new tax structures and policies of the National Automotive Policy, Perusahaan Otomobil Kedua Sdn Bhd (Perodua) announced price cuts of between RM800 to RM1500 per vehicle, which translates to about …
NAP After-Effects: Toyota cars to be cheaper
We've just seen one of the first effects of the new National Automotive Policy. UMW has just announced it's passanger cars will be cheaper by 5.6% to 11% with the new tax …
Malaysia National Automotive Policy
You will find after the jump the full text of the new National Automotive Policy, reproduced verbatim. Have had no time to read through it in full yet. Will post about it …
National Automotive Policy News Flash
This just in. The government will progressively phase out the Approved Permits system, with complete abolishment by December 2010. Import tariffs for ASEAN vehicles under the ASEAN Common Effective Preferential Tariff will …