Not ‘national car’ but Malaysian car

Speaking at the Budget Agenda session of the Youth Economic Forum 2018 at the Securities Commis­sion in Kuala Lumpur last Saturday, shadow finance minister Khairy Jamaluddin said the latest car project should not be called a “national car” if not funded by the government but by private investments.

From 1990 to 2000, I was a lecturer and examiner of tourist guide training courses, and often had to explain that foreigners could be perplexed upon hearing national car although Malaysians may be accustomed to it.