Malaysians Not Keen On Made-in-Malaysia Cars

Namely Proton cars. So says Proton.

Proton Chairman, Tan Sri Mohd Khamil Jamil, recently bemoaned the lack of Malaysian support for the national automaker’s vehicles in a media interview. “I don’t understand why Malaysians are not supporting Proton,” he said to the Business Times last week, citing other countries like Japan and South Korea, which citizens are supportive of vehicles produced by their respective local marques.

Made-in-Thailand Cars OTW to USA

There have been mixed reports coming from the Kingdom of Thailand over the past few weeks, but one that should perhaps have caught our attention, if not imagination, was the report that the first shipment of some 1,074 Mitsubishi Mirage subcompact hatchbacks have set sail from Laem Chabang port en-route to the USA.