msia scrapped 12-year lifespan cap plans on cars, reason: 'dont burden public'

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'No plan to impose 12-year lifespan cap on cars'

Hemananthani Sivanandam
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KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 21, 2013): The government has no plan to set an age limit on cars as it does not want to burden the people, Deputy Transport Minister Datuk Abdul Aziz Kaprawi said today.

He told the Dewan Rakyat that the Opposition's claim that the move to impose a 12-year cap on the lifespan of cars was a means to collect more revenue through the Goods and Services Tax (GST) is not true.

"I want to stress we have no plan to impose a cap on the life span of cars for disposal purposes as we do not want to burden the public," he told Sim Tze Tzin (PKR-Bayan Baru).

Sim and his colleagues Rafizi Ramli (PKR-Pandan) and Darrell Leiking (PKR-Penampang) during a press conference on Wednesday had said the government should scrap the plan as excise duty still remains high.

Leiking had said that road safety aspects should be looked into first before proceeding with such a policy.

Abdul Aziz denied that the government would implement the policy now.

"The government has no such plan at the moment. So, please do not listen to the Opposition," he said.

In a press conference later at the Parliament lobby, Abdul Aziz together with Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (Miros) director-general Prof Dr Wong Shaw Voon said more studies, especially socio-impact studies, must be conducted before such a policy is implemented.

"As an engineer, I said that the typical lifespan of a vehicle, according to the design of the car, is 12 years," said Wong.

"But I do not agree with the proposal to put a limit on the life span of cars."

It was reported recently that Wong had said cars that are more than 12 years old are not safe to be on the road as there is a higher risk of death in an accident.

He said this is because such cars could be faulty without the driver being aware of it, adding that most cars are designed to have a life span of five to 12 years.

However, Wong also said the life span of a car was influenced by a number of factors such as design, handling and maintenance.


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