2012 toyota camry…..the camry fever still ruling the first world country USA.
Let’s see how it goes in Malaysia and thailand..
US web price(I believe the real retail price might be little different but not much..for Malaysia as well)
2012 camry cost for USD 23,000 Let convert it into our MYR ringgit, using web currency converter:
The result is:
72.841.00 MYR..
I know this is ridiculous.
Let’s find out more:
click this and shown:
I really don’t know is this a On-the-road price or not…so let’s add another USD 3000 for calculation:
$23000+$3000 = $ 26000
And the conversion comes to:
RM82,342.00 sound nice?
Let’s see where it goes in Malaysia:
Let’s see where it goes, um sound like a big profit.
It goes to RM144,999.00 for lowest spec we get here.
I know some “extreme country lover still unable to accept this real fact in front of our eyes ball~~”.. let’s convert it into USD for more clear picture:
Here it goes: USD 45,781.5 that mean equal to 2 camry in Malaysia.
Let’s go to Toyota Thailand to see what happen:
If bath 1224000, then its RM:
Let’s see here. 1 camry car in US, Malaysia and Thailand. All converted to Malaysia ringgit:
USD: RM82,342.00
Baht: RM122,982.49
MYR: RM144,990.00
If you are buying other cars in Malaysia such as below car model with around RM80,000 something. You get:
Why? Its that inspira so cool than camry? That been awarded as best car selling in US?
Let’s try to find out more, let’s go for proton person:
In Malaysia, RM49.499.00.
In Australia:
What is that mean? Don’t care..just take the lowest spec and calculate the price:
It is RM 48558.59.
Doesn’t make much different. Let’s go for UK proton and see what is the different.
Unfortunately, I can’t get persona there I don’t want to compare any ecologic.
Let’s try gen-2:
Malaysia price:
RM54,988.00 in Malaysia
Let’s go for UK now:
Whatever with the persona here, let’s just take to most cheap on-the road price:
RM45,170.87? I don’t believe that. Let’s try higher price:
Um…that’s make me feel better…RM58,929.27
Let’s try savvy:
And UK one?
For manual..UK selling price is cheap than us for a few hundred, and for auto one, they got higher than us for a few hundred. Ringgit.
What is this mean?
I always get this information from people that we use to buy most expensive car. And I not really understand why the “Top Gear” 3 guys so irritating on Malaysia manufactured car.
I remember what’s is his review on kelisa in UK about:”…Malaysia car maker just want to make money…and blah..”. And he is so angry with Malaysia car quality.
Now I understand.
No matter you bought what car in Malaysia, imported or local made.(actually mostly is local assembly…like vios and naza plate car).
ASSB UMW assembly vios in malaysia…no wrong locally.
And naza?well known. The manufacturing plan in gurun.
Guess what?we thought we bought imported car but actually is local assembly, and then rebadged or better put back the original badge.
But guess what, even you assembly in Malaysia. The car price is even higher than what US consumer get in US.see below
Lowest spec in Malaysia from RM71,194
Car price in US, converted into Malaysia: RM72,841.00
So what is this mean again?
Some people felt so proud of getting nice car in Malaysia, and we call them ‘lansi’~~
Not nice to call people in this way.
But what this mean?
It means: no matter what car you bought, in Malaysia. (local assembly imported car, local rebadged imported car, purely imported car, even local manufactured car by proton/perodua).
Who earn the most?car seller?maybe..but I believe the most one who take the money from the people is: GOVERNMENT
Guess what? Let’s see Malaysian automotive association that price out the percentage of taxes we paid:
I always heard about this and I don’t really mind on what we had been paid for.(at least for some times…until I have a strongly feeling of increasing of my daily expenses lately).
I thought government wanna help me….but…everywhere I google. I see how the government tax me..until I die(one day).
The point is:
Either Malaysian is a rich country that we can buy our car more expensive than US and Thailand.
Either Malaysian is a very rich nation that our exported to other country and they use to get lower price than us. yes~ with the same product..
Either Malaysian is that rich enough to protect our car industry no matter what..
Are we that rich ? Are we that much than first world country?
But how about our neighbor country?
Are we still sleeping on all this real facts? Since we had given more than 20 years of contribution (in car industry market I mean) to our dear ex- prime minister protected industry.
What happened to us?
Thanks for your contribution to the nation and government.
