{"id":888,"date":"2010-03-30T19:10:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T11:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/?p=888"},"modified":"2010-04-11T04:39:20","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T20:39:20","slug":"proton-volkswagen-talk-resumed-to-set-up-a-ckd-plant-in-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/proton-volkswagen-talk-resumed-to-set-up-a-ckd-plant-in-malaysia\/","title":{"rendered":"Proton &#038; Volkswagen talk resumed to set up a CKD plant in Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<fb:like \n\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/proton-volkswagen-talk-resumed-to-set-up-a-ckd-plant-in-malaysia\/\" \n\t\tlayout=\"button_count\" \n\t\tshow_faces=\"true\" \n\t\twidth=\"450\" \n\t\theight=\"30\"\n\t\taction=\"like\" \n\t\tcolorscheme=\"light\" \n\t\tstyle=\"margin-top:5px;\"\n\t\tclass=\"fb_edge_widget_with_comment fb_iframe_widget\"><\/fb:like><div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-888 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/proton-logo.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/proton-logo-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/proton-logo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/proton-logo-299x300.jpg 299w, https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/proton-logo.jpg 308w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/VW_logo.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/VW_logo-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Previously, Volkswagen\u00a0AG\u00a0had shown interest in Proton&#8217;s manufacturing infrastructure in Malaysia with intention\u00a0to establish a CKD hub catering to the Asian market. Unfortunately, there are\u00a0many things occurred and turn things down during discussion between the tie-ups.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, Skoda, Volkswagen\u00a0or even the luxury Audi at an affordable price range is possible again for\u00a0Malaysian fellows\u00a0as Proton &amp; Volkswagen talk resumed.\u00a0This time it will not be a conditional takeover or tie-up talk\u00a0but\u00a0a discussion about\u00a0to set up a completely knocked down (CKD) plant locally.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last week, Proton CEO\u00a0Datuk Syed Zainal Abidin Syed Mohamed Tahir confirmed that the company is in discussion with the German automaker. OSK Research added, &#8220;The feasibility of this potential tie-up is expected to be announced by the end of the first half of this year. If it materialises by 2011, the said plant will manufacture Volkswagen sedan vehicles catering to the domestic and export market, predominantly in the Asean region.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It added that if Volkswagen does set up its hub here, the initial investment would be less than US$200 million (RM667 million). Last year, the VW&#8217;s partnership deal with IndoMobil to set up a CKD assembly plant in East Jakarta, Indonesia, to manufacture its MPV line-up at an initial investment of US$140 million (RM467 million).<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I would see if the\u00a0proposed CKD plant in Malaysia goes thru, we will see the local facility catering to the production of the Sedan segment using the Proton&#8217;s Shah Alam plant.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<fb:like \n\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/proton-volkswagen-talk-resumed-to-set-up-a-ckd-plant-in-malaysia\/\" \n\t\tlayout=\"button_count\" \n\t\tshow_faces=\"true\" \n\t\twidth=\"450\" \n\t\theight=\"30\"\n\t\taction=\"like\" \n\t\tcolorscheme=\"light\" \n\t\tstyle=\"margin-top:5px;\"\n\t\tclass=\"fb_edge_widget_with_comment fb_iframe_widget\"><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previously, Volkswagen\u00a0AG\u00a0had shown interest in Proton&#8217;s manufacturing infrastructure in Malaysia with intention\u00a0to establish a CKD hub catering to the Asian market. Unfortunately, there are\u00a0many things occurred and turn things down during discussion between the tie-ups. Now, Skoda, Volkswagen\u00a0or even the luxury Audi at an affordable price range is possible again for\u00a0Malaysian fellows\u00a0as Proton &amp; Volkswagen &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,91,17],"tags":[10022,685,684,481],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-news","category-proton","category-volkswagen","tag-proton","tag-volkwagen","tag-volkwagen-ag","tag-vw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}