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Lexus at Tokyo Motor Show

October 18th, 2005 at 09:07pm pep boyz Category : 2005 Tokyo Motor Show, Auto News, International

Lexus company will display the next year’s Lexus LS sedan at the coming Tokyo Motor Show. It is very undercover and I just get the teaser of it. More updates on next week. Don’t forget to see!

Very nice headlamp…

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Subaru at Tokyo Motor Show

October 18th, 2005 at 09:05pm pep boyz Category : 2005 Tokyo Motor Show, Auto News, International

Subaru company will display a few cars in the coming Tokyo Motor Show. Here are the cars that will display at the show.

The Subaru B5-TPH Concept. The front looks like Saab cars…

The interior of the B5-TPH. Very nice green…

More info on our site.

The Subaru Legacy Edge. Sporty…

The Subaru Forester Edge. These face-lifted models get dark gray paintwork and rehashed grilles, bumpers, side sills and roof rails.

The Subaru Intelligent Vehicle X (Based on the Subaru Legacy Wagon). Or the IVX-II. It equipped afront-mounted recognition cameras for its Active Driving Assist system as well as milli-wave radar. These new stereo cameras can not only detect multiple objects, road traffic lines, and road conditions, but they also calculate the distance between the car and an object ahead as well as relative speed to other vehicles. Smart…

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Will Proton Ever Close?

October 18th, 2005 at 09:18am frances Category : Auto News, Malaysia


“We just close down Proton if this is what the people want.”

This is the comment by Tun Dr. Mahathir on the recent public calls to close down national car maker as it is said to be, among others, not competitive and the national car policy had burdened the people besides paying a high price for the national car.

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As a Malaysian, do we really like to see our very first car maker Proton to be close down after all these years? We were once very proud to have our own Malaysia-made car when the Saga was first introduced to the market. We been through of over 20 years of development, and we have to admit that, our cars has not been competitive enough to the other foreign car makers in these days. What is the root of causes for such thing happen to our national car? Is it that we anak Malaysia not given enough support to our national car? Or is it that our national car has been given too much a protection that simply makes it a ’spoilt child’? Is it too late to rescue this spoil child or should we give it a second chance? How about implementing a different ‘parental’ policy ? Will it works in this fast changing environment?

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