Armed Forces to replace LRs with Weststar models, says minister

March 05, 2012

The Armed Forces currently deploys a Land Rover Defender as a military 4WD vehicle. Picture by Rudolf Stricker

KUALA LUMPUR, March 5 The Armed Forces will replace a reliable though rusty fleet of Land Rover Defender four-wheel drives (4WD) with models done by a Weststar Group in Thailand, Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi was reported observant by Bernama Online today.

"The existing 4x4s used by a three services have been archaic as well as no longer cost-effective to maintain," a counterclaim apportion was quoted by a state headlines agency.

Weststar Group is based in Kuala Lumpur as well as headed by Tan Sri Syed Azman Syed Ibrahim. Among others, a enterprises embody automotive sales as well as imports, defence, engineering, aviation services, as well as construction.

The 4WDs offering by a group have been fabricated in Pattaya, in south Thailand.

Ahmad Zahid declined to exhibit either a number of vehicles to be purchased or a price Weststar would be charging for a as-yet unspecified vehicles.

But a apportion did add that Weststar has previously provided a vehicles for military make use of in, between others, a United States, Singapore as well as Thailand.

Weststar has additionally supplied a supervision previously around auxiliary Weststar LDV, a corner venture with a now-insolvent UK organisation LDV, that provided customised row vans as well as transporters specifically for supervision agencies as well as services.

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