Motoring Discussion > Perodua - Bad news for lovers of odd motors Buying / Selling
Thread Author: mikeyb Replies: 15
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 Tue 3 Jun 14 20:10 
 Perodua - Bad news for lovers of odd motors - mikeyb
I wont post the link as its on HJ's site, but Perodua are to stop importing cars to the UK.

Apparently they only sold 122 motors here last year
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 Tue 3 Jun 14 20:15 
 Perodua - Bad news for lovers of odd motors - WillDeBeest
By 2019 Stu will have owned 113 of them.

Which sort of reminds me. Apparently we have new neighbours renting the house opposite. I must pop over and find out if they're Romanian.
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 Tue 3 Jun 14 23:00 
 Perodua - Bad news for lovers of odd motors - Boxsterboy
They'll be sadly missed. Not.
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 Wed 4 Jun 14 00:11 
 Perodua - Bad news for lovers of odd motors - Stuartli
>>By 2019 Stu will have owned 113 of them. >>

Er, no...:-) :-)
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 Wed 4 Jun 14 18:25 
 Perodua - Bad news for lovers of odd motors - Alastairw
Not you, Stu, the other one. Lol.
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 Wed 4 Jun 14 07:37 
 Perodua - Bad news for lovers of odd motors - Focusless
No problem with links to HJ:
www.honestjohn.co.uk/news/miscellaneous/2014-06/perodua-uk-stops-importing-cars/
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 Wed 4 Jun 14 09:38 
 Perodua - Bad news for lovers of odd motors - Mike Hannon
20-odd years ago I did a road test of a Sao Penza, imported from South Africa. I wonder what happened to them?
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 Wed 4 Jun 14 11:03 
 Perodua - Bad news for lovers of odd motors - BiggerBadderDave
"Perodua Malaysia has committed £1.2m to ensuring there is parts and servicing availability for existing customers for the next eight years"

Couldn't you just buy two and keep the donor in the garage?
Last edited by: BiggerBadderDave on Wed 4 Jun 14 at 11:04
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 Wed 4 Jun 14 11:19 
 Perodua - Bad news for lovers of odd motors - Fenlander
You could but it does lead to the phrase...

What's worse than a Perodua....
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 Wed 4 Jun 14 11:53 
 Perodua - Bad news for lovers of odd motors - diddy1234
a Daihatsu
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 Wed 4 Jun 14 11:54 
 Perodua - Bad news for lovers of odd motors - Runfer D'Hills
Bless you.
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 Wed 4 Jun 14 12:23 
 Perodua - Bad news for lovers of odd motors - madf

>>
>> What's worse than a Perodua....
>>

Two Peroduas.
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 Wed 4 Jun 14 12:28 
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>> "Perodua Malaysia has committed £1.2m to ensuring there is parts and servicing availability for existing
>> customers for the next eight years"

That would not go very far in routine maintenance items let alone one off accident repair type parts. Is that number only for the UK or the world ?
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 Wed 4 Jun 14 14:08 
 Perodua - Bad news for lovers of odd motors - Ambo
Not much cop, were they? The first ones around here had under-bonnet labelling in Malay, Minyak for Oil, for example. Nostalgia was not enough to persuade me to buy, even though I had worked on a Minyak estate and was Secretary to a Minyak Club.
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 Wed 4 Jun 14 22:07 
 Perodua - Bad news for lovers of odd motors - Avant
Ironically the Myvi wasn't a bad car - basically a Daihatsu I think. The importers must have been stupendously incompetent in their marketing.
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 Wed 4 Jun 14 23:06 
 Perodua - Bad news for lovers of odd motors - Lygonos
>> The importers must have been stupendously incompetent in their marketing.

Was over the magical 120g/km CO2 = death for small cars with no existing market.

Honda shot themselves in the foot with the previous Jazz only managing 123 or so.
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