{"id":34825,"date":"2025-10-10T22:31:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T22:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/automotive\/budget-2026-up-to-rm4k-of-govt-grants-for-scrapping-of-cars-over-20-years-old-buy-a-new-perodua-proton\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T22:31:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T22:31:40","slug":"budget-2026-up-to-rm4k-of-govt-grants-for-scrapping-of-cars-over-20-years-old-buy-a-new-perodua-proton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/automotive\/budget-2026-up-to-rm4k-of-govt-grants-for-scrapping-of-cars-over-20-years-old-buy-a-new-perodua-proton\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2026: Up to RM4k of gov\u2019t grants for scrapping of cars over 20 years old \u2013 buy a new Perodua, Proton"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Do you have an old car that\u2019s no longer running, and the cost of reviving it doesn\u2019t make sense compared to the low value of the thing? Instead of letting it rot away and take up space, how about scrapping that hunk of metal?<\/p>\n

In this evening\u2019s tabling of Budget 2026 by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, the PM and finance minister announced that the government will, together with national carmakers, offer a matching grant (geran padanan) of up to RM4,000 for your old car. <\/p>\n

A matching grant is exactly what it sounds like. If Proton or Perodua offers RM4,000 for your old car in a \u2018cash for clunkers\u2019 programme, the Madani administration will match it with a grant of RM4,000, meaning that you\u2019ll get RM8,000 for your old car, which can be used for the purchase of a new national car. <\/p>\n

Likewise, RM3,000 from the carmaker will be matched by RM3,000 from the gov\u2019t, for a total of RM6,000. The OEMs can offer more, but the gov\u2019t\u2019s carrot maxes out at RM4,000. The only T&C announced is that the car to be scrapped must be over 20 years old. <\/p>\n

Aside from giving a sales boost to the carmakers in Rawang and Tanjong Malim, the gov\u2019t theory is that cars over 20 years old are not very safe. If you don\u2019t believe this, check out our eyewitness account of an NCAP-style crashing of a 1993 Proton Wira. To read up more on the proper way to scrap a car \u2013 which is much easier now thanks to e-Dereg \u2013 click here.<\/p>\n

The post Budget 2026: Up to RM4k of gov\u2019t grants for scrapping of cars over 20 years old \u2013 buy a new Perodua, Proton appeared first on Paul Tan's Automotive News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you have an old car that\u2019s no longer running, and the cost of reviving it doesn\u2019t make sense compared to the low value of the thing? Instead of letting it rot away and take up space, how about scrapping that hunk of metal? In this evening\u2019s tabling of Budget 2026 by Datuk Seri Anwar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-automotive"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}