Mitsubishi Motors Corp. said it will enhance its cooperation with Proton Holdings Berhad, a major Malaysian automaker, through joint production of small car engines in the Southeast Asian country and other initiatives.
The two are also considering having Mitsubishi cars be built at Proton’s production plants and sharing key components of Mitsubishi’s subcompacts to be manufactured in Thailand from next year and those used by Proton to build small vehicles.
Transfer of expertise necessary to make electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles to Proton is also on the table, Mitsubishi said.
Mitsubishi Motors has held close ties with Proton by taking a stake in the company and providing technological support to it since its establishment in 1983 under Malaysia’s national car policy.
The number of deregistered vehicles for export purpose (Yushutsu Masshou) totaled 64,935 units in July, down 2.7% from a year earlier.
This marked the second consecutive month of year-on-year decline. The July figure also marked a 33.2% increase compared with the previous month.
Deregistrations of medium-to larger-passenger car fell 2.7% to 21,249 units, while those of small cars down 2.2% to 31,090 units.
Deregistrations of medium-to heavy-duty trucks fell 11.4% to 2,993 units, while those of light-duty trucks rose 1.3% to 7,982 units. Used bus deregistrations totaled 295 units. down 16.9% from a year earlier.
Toyota vehicles (436,491 units) took a 56.2 of total deregistered vehicles for the larger than previous month.
So far this year, export purpose totaled 530,390 units, up 1.8% from a year earlier.
