12 December 2008

Selangor denies buying 14 Toyota Camrys

SHAH ALAM, Dec 12 - Selangor Menteri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim today denied that the state government had bought 14 Toyota Camry cars for state executive councillors as alleged on the website www.pembangkangselangor.com last night.

He however said the state was studying several models of cars to replace the official state cars that were more than five years old."Next year we will begin looking at our five to six year old cars which have high maintenance costs. We have not done any booking but we have called car manufacturers like UMW Holdings and Proton Edar. They have sent us their brochures for us to choose," Abdul Khalid told reporters here today."

The website alleged that the state government had wasted around RM600,000 when it decided to buy 14 Toyota Camrys whose total cost was about RM1.2 million as the cost a Proton Perdana V6 was only around RM120,000 compared to a Toyota Camry that costs RM168,000. - Bernama

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