Malaysian Car Industry Bashing

Perodua and Proton got bashed by popular UK Television series, Top Gear on their latest 3rd Episode of the 13th Season. Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond “tested” a MyVi (which Jeremy affectionately calls, Mee Vee), Satria Neo (the most expensive of the lot) and a Chevvy of similar class.

They took the car to the London Financial District to blame the Financial people who caused the Economic downturn leading to the creation of “such rubbish cars”. They then turned to the Big Ben area to protest to the Government. It was totally hillarious.

You see, the thing is, compared to our European and Japanese competitors, Malaysian cars, are inferior. In all aspects. The only reason our local car manufacturers are afloat is because of GOVERNMENT protectionism. Take away the redicul-TAX on foreign cars, and we’ll be driving Alfa Romeo Mito as @aidanlegend wishes. It is a sad state of affairs for us Malaysians. But if we can look past that, over the long run (if the world still exists beyond 2012), we would be proud to have a “mature car industry” and not rely on foreign car imports. As @lukasfoo like to FAMOUSLY quote GDP = C + something + something + NX

That NX means  Net Export. So if Malaysia is shipping “cheap usable cars” overseas in the near future, our Economy will prosper. Then our poor neighbours will be driving rubbish (hahahaha) and we’ll be rolling on premium shit.

With all said and done, my current dream car is a Proton Persona.. SE if there’s some cash to spare. AT 60k, its not that bad. Its a Gen 2 with a boot, spacious and quite sexy. Either that, or.. I could save up 2 years of salary, drive my dad’s old Saga to work… at the end of it, put a 30k down and 200k loan and buy myself a 2nd hand…

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Who needs a house when you can have a moving luxury hotel!

Ok, snap back to reality. Time to start a day, on the tune of DJ Mangoo’s – Eurodancer!

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