since Prius C has lunching in Japan, when will it come to Malaysia?
any inside news of UMW ?

from the source below, it says:

" It is now confirmed that Toyota Australia will be introducing the new Toyota Prius C at the first half of 2012. Hence, it is making more sense that UMW Toyota Motor will be introducing it about the same in Malaysia. "

http://www.fastmotoring.com/index.php/2011...t-half-of-2012/

2012 is beginning to get more interesting..
just make sure the price is right when it comes to malaysia. ^^

If the Prius C is selling 100K below, I'm pretty sure it will be in my short list.

The Prius C selling price in Taiwan is about NT$870K ~ RM89K and will be available in March there.

with the tax examption, it looks promising that it will go below 100k.. i would say this will b better option than insight..

thats some wishful thinking there. Knowing UMW Toyota, they would definitely price is higher to ensure their other models are not affected.

Btw Prius quality in terms of fittings and plastic is much better than the insight by a huge amount

This post has been edited by 779364: Jan 2 2012, 12:16 AM

Pre order going on?
Singapore are taking pre order now.

More Prius?

Hmm if the price is less than RM100k, i will take it over Insight !

this thing can run with full ev mode..i think it wont be cheaper/near the insight price..

My own opinion, I find the current Prius nicer O.o

please check some source from the internet..

Honda Insight base model 1.3L + not so clever IMA - 1.8million yen before tax. Higher spec 2million yen before tax
http://www.honda.co.jp/INSIGHT/webcatalog/type/g/

Prius C 1.5L + abit more clever hybrid aka synergy drive base price - 1.69million yen, up to 1.85million yen
http://www.motortrader.com.my/Cars/NewsHea...ua-Prius-c.aspx

Read the bottom of motortrader article "would make it cheaper than The Honda Insight"

This post has been edited by twincharger07: Jan 5 2012, 01:15 AM

With the 10% sales tax if it is selling at dugong price it will affect the survival of dugong so (base line model in Japan is 70k). Probably it will get the high specs over here, price will be 100k or more if UMW is greedy.

Hybrid car is not the future in auto industry, Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle is the ultimate answer. Hybrid is just a transition stuff, after that it is outdated (guess 10 years later?) By that time your Toyota also sell 10k no ppl want

I think UMW will price Prius C at least Vios 1.5G price + 10K, which is around 97K, this is to protect Vios, but even with this price, Honda insight will have hard time to sell.

if they price it slightly lower or on par with Insight, its still a better deal than Honda
if prius c out sale dugong, just bring in more prius c and lesser dugong la..

Hydrogen Fuel Cell is a failure project... it cost more energy to make Hydrogen than Hydrogen generate energy.. wonder y it never went popular until now after so many years of research? how much energy needed to produce hydrogen from electrolysis? how much algae you need to produce hydrogen for 1 car?

with electric cars kicking off, no automobile manufacturer will b looking back at Hydrogen

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle will need at least 20 years to go, hydrogen refill stations will have big impact to the current petrol station, those oil company will not happy to see it.

If there is natural gas fuel cell vehicle, it will be feasible in near term.

yes... it might take 20years to get hydrogen efficient enough for automobile.. but after 20 years, the industry might even further perfected electric car technology and hydrogen has once again having hard time to keep up with the pace..

near future i would foresee diesel hybrid or biodiesel hybrid, just to make the oil company happy and making our wallet happy... even better milage and lesser CO2.

Technology advancement is something that can really surprise you. 10 years back we were so happy to hapy a colour screen handphone, now it is all adroid & apple which has a processor faster than a pentium III. Google this word "Toyota Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle" then u can see Toyota itself is planning to launch FCV in 2015, give it another few more years to be mass produced and bring the cost down.

I believe the FCV technology is there, there was a conspiracy theory saying that those petrol giant are blocking or even car manufacturer pay a high price to stop it, who knows, time will tell.

I think our automotive policy will failed in the end trying to attract car manufacturer to assemble hybrid car over here, coz they themselves know it is not the answer to the future.

not only toyota, honda has been doing that for years.. many pilot projects but couldnt take off in mass production...
a single product cant take off if there is no infrastructure to support... it need to years to perfect all short comings..

anything that gonna threaten the petrol price from dropping..... so a lot of those high tech stuff claiming tat can replace fuel are dead before they even see the light.

actually battery technology is not moving forward as fast as the rest of the technology.

look at the iphone 4 now and the nokia 3210. they are both limited by battery size.

the conspiracy of oil is true, but not by oil giants. its by countries.

why dont you ask malaysia to sponsor cars using only EV, no they wont, because we are oil producing country.

If US/CHina is not encouraging it, you can bet not many ppl can do/research better than them.

the only advantage country that are not oil producing is japan. thus they are willing to invest in battery,hybrid,EV and so on.

Malaysia,US, germany,russia, uk, france, taiwan, china. middle east no need to mention. see here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oil-producing_states

so, now you know why nobody wanna invest too much in battery that will kill petrol price?