#fridayflashbacks News from August 1995 Audi will produce a total of 5,500 cars in Malaysia over the next 5 years. Besides the A6, there are also plans to assemble the A4 locally in the near future. Did you pay your parking fine in Kuantan? If not, the municipal council will be tracking you down as it wants to recover the RM8 million in arrears. 2,000 warrants of arrest have been issued in recent months. Insurance companies have agreed to make refunds to motorists who were forced to buy other policies when they wanted motor vehicle insurance. The JPJ has given an assurance that driving licences suspected to have been obtained through bribery of testers will not be invalidated unless there is enough evidence. A total of 88 roads in Taman Setiawangsa, Taman Bukit Desa,Taman Desa Aman, Bandar Tun Razak and Bangsar Utama (all in Kuala Lumpur) have had their names changed this month. There are plans to build a tunnel linking Penang to the mainland to cope with the projected increase in traffic volume in future. The Penang Bridge will also be widened at a cost of RM200 million. Proton is considering using other local assembly plants to assemble its cars in order to meet the great demand. Further expansion of its factory would only gain 8,000 units over the current level of 160,000 units a year. DBKL has said that there will be no toll charges along Jalan Damansara as the road improvement works are funded by the government. With complaints by buyers mounting and even a warning by the Minister of Finance regarding customers being forced to take loans from EONs panel of finance companies at interest rates higher than the market average, EON has said that it will seek guidance from the government concerning the matter. In the US, the traditional hub of the automobile industry has been Detroit; in Malaysia in the near future, Tanjung Malim in Perak will be an auto city when Proton opens its second plant in 1997. The company is expected to spend about RM2 billion in developing the plant and ancillary facilities which is to be the most modern in Southeast Asia. With the new plant running, Proton will be able to produce up to 350,000 units a year to meet the rising domestic and overseas demand projected for the end of the decade. The new plant is likely to have a maximum capacity of 500,000 units a year.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 06:45:23 +0000
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