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 Hybrid is just a transition stuff, after that it is outdated (guess 10 years later?)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

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.

The first thing u should ask the salesman is not the price, is the name of the car will be change to Ah Hock, Ah Beng instead or Ah Kua

I think its direct competitor will be Honda Jazz hybrid, so they must price it correctly