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This is people power. The people must not keep quiet anymore on any cruel or stupid policies by whichever governments both BN as well as PR. Use all available media to voice disagreements. Public hearings must be encouraged. The government must not look at Utusan Malaysia and Berita Harian only. All ministries and departments should have channels like SMS, websites etc for people to voice appreciations and complaints.

Hurrah! Now I dont have to worry about taking my old faithful of 18 years to PUSPAKOM, as I dont trust them one bit.

With this move, I have come to sad sad realization about our nation. A great many Malaysians, in numbers sufficient to cause even the BN government to reverse its money making policies, drive cars that are 15 years and older. When proton came, a great many of us must have not been able to buy ourselves a new, expensive and poorly made national car. We kept our old Toyotas. BMW, Honda and serviced them for decades, because that was all we could afford and because they were better cars.

The only nation I know who drive so many old cars is Cuba.

Scrap Proton. It has been a white elephant, unable to compete even with our neighbours. It is a eyesore of old 1970s technology (proton is based on the old Mitsubishi Lancer) and an embarrassment to Malaysia and her people. Proton tells the world that Malaysian engineers can not even build cars with a budget of RM 190million of research grant every year.

It was a stupid policy in the very first place as one can see,read and experience that certain old cars like certain old wines can actually get better with age. Sometimes, one just wonder whether we have any respectful thinking policy maker at all and yet these so called public servant even dare to think of any bonus at all, never mind 2 mths during this challenging recession period. It's not only immoral and unethical but thick skin and daylight robbery as far as the tax payer are concerned.
However, taking safety into consideration, maybe we should introduce a one year warranty of certificate of fitness to car of 5 yrs and above that are fit to be on the road.

lol, scrapping old cars should be a wise move..dissapointed.

The main issue is nobody trusts the inspecting agency not to abuse its powers to demand for bribes to 'pass' old cars.

However, looking at the matter of road-worthiness and safety, there IS a need to check older cars but it doesn't have to be annually. Maybe once in 2-3 years is enough. Or in the case of well-maintained classic or antique cars, just one inspection is enough every 5-10 years.

It is a good idea to have a minimum standard of safety for all cars esp old cars. Some of the ill mantained old cars on the road are so corroded by rust that is a danger to everyone. Minimum standards should include acceptable bodyworks, working headlights, working signal/emergency lights , working brake lights, working brakes, working wipers, working horn and tyres of acceptable tread.

this shows how near sighted our leaders are...

Flip-Flop-Flip-Flop-Flip-Flop.... again!

In the bladi first place, this policy knowingly will burden the poor and yet they want to implement it. Now, they will sing a different tune, saying that they are concerned of the rakyat, takes good care of the rakyat.... so continue to vote for them ah?

This is just another slip shot idea, policy or work of the BN govt. They cannot think right, plan right what is really good for the people. They only think of their own interest and probably their own pockets. What kind of people are these?

Stupid BN government flip flop again...can't they think properly before they create a stir in the country???
What credibility does this BN government have except for loads of scandals and corrupted practices??????

Since when this government can be entrusted to do the right thing for Malaysians ? Flip-flopping in policy announcement and changes. For UMNO, everything can change. This country is going down the tube because of unprincipled leaders, poorly thought policies, shallow research, lack of concrete plans of a government none other than UMNO. The new NAP is a joke. They rather have 28 million Malaysians suffer for 6 more years than scrapping it all.

Vote UMNO out !

This is nonsense. The AP system is still around. IMHO, the whole scrapping old cars sandiwara was just so that people would spend more time breathing a sigh of relief and make them feel they have won instead of wiping out the AP system and removing the Toll Concessionaires. People of Malaysia please realize this.

Their tactic is to propose something bad so that you will be horrified then pretend to withdraw so you will feel better. But what happens is that they are draining the people psychologically and emotionally so that bad things in the system will remain when they are tired out from the horror inflicted by bad proposals or please from thinking they won! Watch out for this tactic and steel yourselves everytime it happend, its happening all the time under BN!

This is also how they turned the BN coalition party partners into lapdogs. So keep focused and remember the below list always in all dealings ! See below :

1) End of Inequality affecting Malaysians via law and constitution
2) End of Malay Reserve Land
3) End of Special Privileges
4) End of NEP
5) End of 7% housing discount / bumiputra housing quota etc.
6) Amend ISA to a form acceptable to the Human Rights Charter
7) Implement the IPCMC.
8) End of the 12.5% of issued stock in the equities markets
9) Effect leeway and allowances such as voice prayer for minority dominant areas (so that Singapore Chinese can be re-assimilated)
10) End all medieval punishments via Syariah Courts (so that Singapore Malays can be re-assimilated) and Malays are the equal of all citizens in terms of personal freedoms.
11) End forced Military Conscriptions via National Service to be replaced with a Voluntary system. (so that all Singaporeans would choose Malaysia's freer 0.4 year NS system over Singapore's 2.5 year mandatory NS system)

Same old trick ! Vote for the party that grants equality !