Quote Originally Posted by Benji_DCP View Post
The question I have in mind here is: Do we really have to build our own Philippine Car? For What? For our own "national" ego?
Well, Mahathir of Malaysia built Proton and Perodua for Malaysian ego. Why not?

On the otherhand, we dont need a national car, what we need to build up is our capability to build vehicles, especially "niche" vehicles like PHUV or AUV with as many local parts as possible and the soon to be implemented new MVDP of our BOI has already considered with numerous incentives. Actually, most local car assemblers (Mitsubishi, Toyota, Honda, Isuzu and Ford) and local car parts manufacturers (MVPMAP) support the new program.


This country has already missed the boat, due to greedy/selfish leaders, poor governance and a damaged culture which was never rectified....
Yes, indeed we miss the boat for now, but I think, academically, we can still catch up, albeit in supplying the local needs. I have already posted here in tsikot press releases made y BOI and Mitsubishi regarding potentials of the Philippine market for locally produced vehicles not necessarily 100% Pinoy car.

With the country's wealth held by a few people or families (caciques), and the central tendency of the rich to be "risk averse", probably a handful of them could be considered industrialists who would invest their money on manufacturing technologies. They would rather start with joint-ventures with established industry players in the world (to mitigate risks). Somehow due to some of the situations I have mentioned above, we never got to spin-off to build our own national industry.
Indeed.

Ironically, the in fact invested in certain manufacturing technologies but at a very limited scale. For instance, Ferdinand Torres partnered with Yazaki to produce wiring harness for local use and export. The group Almazora and Juan families for AUV, bus and Truck body manufacturing.

Ayala, Yuchengco, Roxas for local vehicle assembly.

Yung nga lang hanngagang dun lang no real full manufacturing of vehicles like Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia.

For me, it doesnt matter if we build vehciles with foreign technology and foreign capital in joint venture with Pinoys) as long as we build and manufacture it here in the country.