Will Chevrolet Return To Malaysia for the 5th time?
Chevrolet is a brand under General Motors (GM) and they have used ASEAN nations as their test and dump ground for years with no after thought about the many buyers/owners who are left without spare parts and even a quality product.
Now we hear news from Singapore that Chevrolet is launching their well known supercar, Corvette in the island state. Where there are strict speed limits with enough speed sensitive cameras island wide, we wonder where the buyers of the Corvette Stingray 3LT will exploit the limits of this supercar.
Well, Singapore already has a high number of Lamborghini’s, Porsches, Ferraris and every kind of supercar and super-sedan because their owners can cross the causeway and open up their engines on Malaysian highways.
Meanwhile, this latest Corvette has a right hand drive version which has been on sale in England and Australia since early last year and it will be sold from SG650k in Singapore and we are quite sure a Malaysian launch is just months away.
Did you know that this Chevrolet Corvette is powered by the same 6.2-litre V8 (yearly Malaysian road tax costs will be about RM16,566) but it makes more power than the seventh generation model.
Paired to this monstrous engine in the C8 Chevrolet Corvette is an 8-speed dual-clutch transmission and a century sprint time of 2.9 seconds. Naturally, this makes it faster than 99 percent of the cars most owners will see on the road daily so that is definitely a good reason to own this car.
Interestingly, used Corvette’s have been spotted in our classifieds over the past year or so and a recent red unit was spotted at just RM670k before negotiations (see picture below). So, if you are planning to buy a used unit in Malaysia it should be easy to get parts and maintenance done right across the causeway.
The Chevrolet brand has come and gone from the Malaysian market a few times (4 times actually) and the last effort by the Naza Group feel through when GM did not deliver on its promises of new generation vehicles and better after sales support.
We wrote about this on December 16th 2018 and was met with harsh criticism from the GM ASEAN corporate communications department and we replied accordingly. Which means we informed them to prove our article wrong which they could not.
So, it was clear that GM used ASEAN nations, including Malaysia as a dumping ground for their aged products and also Korean partnered vehicles and left many buyers stranded and business owners broke.
