Reduced taxes = cheaper car prices?

Can some one explain why the Prius costs RM140k here?

This post has been edited by dares: May 7 2013, 06:10 PM

I don't buy it. Look at Honda: Insight, Jazz Hybrid CBU and the normal Jazz sold in the same RM90k-RM100k bracket of it's bestselling Honda City.

What does Toyota has in that price range? Vios and Altis? If the Prius was priced around RM100k, that's a bit more reasonable (Still with a fat profit margin).

But RM140k? C'mon!

By importing all the parts? Kinda defeats the purpose of CKD isn't it?

Actually, it's not acceptable for me. Hybrids are tax-exempted, Vios and Altis are not. we are supposed to get them cheap, that was the whole point of FIT.

For example, the tax-free Prius C should be priced the same as the taxed Vios E. If the better-equipped Prius C is taxed the same as the Vios, only then the RM20k difference is acceptable.

The reason I brought up Honda was not to argue their hybrid's quality/reliability (their hybrids are also overpriced, CKD Jazz hybrid is a vucking joke), but to illustrate that Toyota CAN price their CBU hybrids near to their petrol-drinking line ups, as Honda did, without sacrificing the sales of their best-selling model. Honda sold a hybrid C-sedan alongside a hybrid B-sedan at almost the same price!!

As many have said, it is due to the endless greed on UMW's part. What if FIT is lifted next year? will the Prius C be sold at RM120k? UMW must be daydreaming to think people will still buy that.....Oh wait, this is Malaysia.

This post has been edited by dares: May 8 2013, 12:32 PM

Thanks for taking the time to explain, very educational indeed.

The roads will be flooded with Vivas