21 March 2019
KUALA LUMPUR, March 21 — The national automotive landscape involves many areas of engineering that need to be upgraded, including adapting to new technologies, said Deputy International Trade and Industry Minister Dr Ong Kian Ming. “When you talk about the new national car, that is more focused on the manufacturing side,” he told reporters after officiating the 11th Automechanika Kuala Lumpur auto trade fair here today.
The first improvement should be the pricing. Why should malaysians pay huge amount of money just to buy a car? Malaysia’s car price is one of the highest in the world. Why make the rakyat suffer?
To say that our automotive sector needs improvement has got to be the understatement of the year. Actually the best policy is no policy. The govt should get out of the automotive business. Let the people through the free market system determine what kind of auto industry we have.