From shophouse to global hub: Malaysia’s automotive journey


Asia’s very first automotive assembly activities date back almost one hundred years.

The pioneers in local assembly used to be Ford, when in 1926 was incorporated in Singapore as Ford Motor Company of Malaya Ltd. Operating from a small shophouse garage, it began with wheel-fitting and touching up early Model-T kits sourced from Ford England and Canada. A far cry from the state-of-the-art assembly plants that can push out thousands of units a month today.

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