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  Ssangyong gives Actyon SUT a 6-speed automatic

  24 June 2008 / 11 comments

  Competitive Supreme Sdn Bhd has launched an updated version of the Ssangyong Actyon Sports SUT with a major technical change that should be very welcome – a 6-speed automatic gearbox. This will allow the punchy […]

   

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  PDAM wants higher commission for fuel purchases via credit card payment

  24 June 2008 / 44 comments

  The Petrol Dealers Association of Malaysia is once again bringing up something they have brought up back in 2005: credit card commissions that are eating into their profit margins. They have issued a letter to […]

   

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  Fuel subsidies extended to vehicles up to 3,000cc in East Malaysia

  23 June 2008 / 23 comments

  The government will be extending the RM625 cash fuel subsidy to private vehicles with engine displacements up to 3,000cc in Sabah and Sarawak as four-wheel drive vehicles are more commonly used there. The PM said […]

   

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  Separate fuel pumps for foreign vehicles near border

  23 June 2008 / 16 comments

  500 fuel stations in border town areas between 30 to 50km from the border to Thailand in the north and the border to Singapore in the south have agreed to set up separate fuel pumps […]

   

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  Volvo C30 2.4i coming to Malaysia!

  21 June 2008 / 28 comments

  Volvo Car Malaysia will be launching the new Volvo C30 hatchback this Monday the 23rd. Initially only the 2.4i model will be offered, which features a 2.4 litre inline-5 engine producing 170 horsepower at 6,000rpm […]

   

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  MITI: New Open AP applications still frozen, but we gave 20 APs to “test market”

  20 June 2008 / 31 comments

  The Ministry of International Trade and Industry has issued a statement saying it has not issued new Open APs to a company, which is most likely the newly formed Premier Hybrid Cars Sdn Bhd manned […]

   

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  Premier Hybrid Cars Sdn Bhd gets new Open APs

  20 June 2008 / 39 comments

  There is a new green AP holder in town called Premier Hybrid Cars Sdn Bhd, who claims to be the the first hybrid distributor of hybrid cars in Malaysia, a fact that is technically untrue […]

   

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  Proton prefers a foreign partner

  18 June 2008 / 22 comments

  Proton’s managing director Datuk Syed Zainal Abidin Syed Mohamed Tahir said that Proton prefers a foreign partner rather than a local one, as an established foreign automaker provided more value in terms of technology, marketing […]

   

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  No summons for 4th backseat passenger

  18 June 2008 / 25 comments

  Transport Minister Datuk Ong Tee Keat has announced that action will not be taken against cars that carry an amount of backseat passengers that is more than the amount of seatbelts installed in the backseat, […]

   

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  New Triton 3.2 and Triton Lite available in Malaysia

  16 June 2008 / 23 comments

  Click to enlarge Mitsubishi Motors Malaysia has officially made available two additional variants of the Triton pick-up truck at its showrooms – the Mitsubishi Triton 3.2 4X4 Automatic and the Mitsubishi Triton Lite 2.5 4X2 […]

   

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  Khazanah wants equity partner for Proton

  14 June 2008 / 33 comments

  A few stories that have appeared in the press recently gives an impression of an uncertain future for Proton, especially its management. First we learn that Proton’s current managing director Datuk Syed Zainal Abidin Syed […]

   

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  How and when can you claim your RM625 cash fuel subsidy?

  12 June 2008 / 24 comments

  As all of you probably know by now, those who own a car with an engine displacement of 2000cc and below, and have a road tax disc which will be renewable from the 1st of […]

   

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  Update on Malaysian petrol prices: what next?

  12 June 2008 / 19 comments

  Datuk Shahrir Samad reveals a little more on what went behind the doors at the Cabinet Committee on Inflation meeting, which resulted in fuel prices to be revised to RM2.70 per litre for RON97 fuel […]

   

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  Government extends AP cashcow lifespan

  11 June 2008 / 43 comments

  The government’s flip-flop policies continue with the recent announcement that it would not go ahead with the abolishment of APs by 2010, instead giving the notorious AP system an extended lifetime that will last the […]

   

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  RM625 fuel subsidy a one-time payment only!

  9 June 2008 / 73 comments

  When the Prime Minister’s Office released the full announcement on the new petrol and diesel prices for Malaysia as well as the new subsidy structure last week, it was mentioned that the RM625 subsidy would […]

   

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