New Year 2010, New Cars Price Increase

By Ali Budiman

New Year 2010 to be addressed with a new car price changes. Yes, some car dealers have raised the price of new cars for their products. Such as PT. Toyota Astra Motor, the sole distributor of Toyota cars in Indonesia is raising prices of vehicles for sale all its product line up. Imposed price increase varies from 1.5 million to 13 million Indonesian rupiah.

Toyota Avanza has increase price

Toyota Avanza is a market leader in the MPV segment and the best-selling car in Indonesia today, increase the price of Rp. 1.5 up to 3 million for the all Avanza models. Toyota Avanza type E Manual is now sold for Rp. 133.6 million while the highest variant of Avanza 1.5-liter S-AT priced at Rp. 171 million. So is the Toyota Kijang Innova raising price of around Rp. 1.5 up to 3 million for each variants. The most economical variant of the family car, type of Toyota Kijang Innova J-M/T Gasoline is now sold for Rp. 181.4 million, while the Innova Diesel V-type AT priced at 289.1 million.

Others product of Toyota cars has increasing on the road price are All New Vios (increase 2 million), Corolla Altis (3 million), New Camry (6 million), Rush (2 million), Fortuner (3 to 4 million), Alphard 2.4-liter (6 million), Alphard 3.5-liter (12 million), Prius (4 million), Land Cruiser (13 million), and Previa increase 5 million rupiah.

Likewise with others car dealers like Nissan, Suzuki, and Daihatsu. PT. Nissan Motor Indonesia plan to increase on the road price of new cars since beginning of New Year 2010. Price increase is around 1.5 million up to 2.5 million for each model. Meanwhile, sole distributor of Daihatsu cars, PT. Astra Daihatsu Motors also increasing price list of one to two million dollars for Xenia, Terios, Granmax, and Luxio. So is the case with PT. Indomobil Suzuki Motors to raise prices between 3 or 4 million for Suzuki models such as Suzuki SX-4 Crossover manual transmission that priced at Rp. 201.5 million.

Almost all ATPM / car dealers argued that these price increases largely because of rising costs of BBN (Bea Balik Nama untuk Kendaraan Bermotor) or “Registration Fee for Motor Vehicles“. Although the Indonesian rupiah strengthened, apparently still can not put a halt to the increase in vehicle prices increased every year. Hmmm …..So when Indonesian people had a cheap car and affordable?

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