Rancon to make Proton SUV in Bangladesh

 

Rancon to make Proton SUV in Bangladesh  

                                                                                                        ---For the time being, the company will import and market Proton brand SUV cars. The car will be launched in the country by the end of this year.

   


 
Malaysia's Proton brand of SUVs (Sports Utility Vehicles) will be manufactured in the country by the local Rancon Group. For this, the company has tied up with Proton as an exclusive distributor. The Rancon Group will launch the Proton-branded SUV in the country early next year.


According to Rancon Group sources, Proton's X90 series SUV will be imported and marketed until the car is manufactured in the country. The car will be officially launched on Thursday. On this occasion, a function was organized at a hotel in the capital this evening.

According to sources, Proton's X90 series SUVs will be assembled at the Rancon Group's industrial park in Gazipur. A factory has already been set up. The Mitsubishi Outlander is currently being assembled at the plant. The assembly of Proton's SUV will begin in December at the same factory.

The Rancon Group has set up an industrial park in Gazipur, where cars, motorcycles, trucks, televisions, refrigerators of different brands of the world are being assembled and manufactured. The company has already invested over Rs.

Romo Rauf Chowdhury, managing director of Rancon Group, told Prothom Alo, We have already set up a new factory at our industrial park with an investment of Tk 300 crore to manufacture personal cars. Mitsubishi Outlander cars are currently being added. Proton's X90 series of SUVs will start to be assembled from next December. '

PHP Group has started assembling Malaysia's first Proton brand car in Bangladesh. They have been assembling and marketing Proton Saga cars in the country for several years. Now for the first time, the Rancon Group has taken the initiative to add Proton brand SUVs in the country.

The demand for cars of the world's leading brands has been increasing in the country for several years. SUVs are known as luxury cars. So it is expected to hit the market.

According to Chittagong Port and Customs, in 2003, the SUV class of cars in the country was 8 percent of the total imported cars. In 2022, 40 percent of the cars imported in the country were in the SUV category. A total of 10,649 SUVs were imported that year. According to the registration data of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA), 10,240 SUVs were registered in 2022, which is 35 percent more than 2021.

However, due to the US dollar crisis, the import of expensive cars decreased slightly last year as a result of the Bangladesh Bank's strictness in importing cars. At the same time, the cost of living is rising and car sales are falling. This is why 7,765 SUVs were registered with the BRTA last year.

One of the new Proton SUVs is a 6-seater and the other is a 7-seater. Both engines have a capacity of 1,500cc. Mustafizur Rashid Bhuiyan, director of Rancon Cars, a unit of Rancon Group, told Prothom Alo, At present, we are importing Proton's two models of SUVs and launching them in the country. If these cars start assembling in the country, it will reduce the price by several lakhs of rupees. '

Source: Rancon group

 

 

 

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