Kancil (A Tribute)

My late father had been one of the earliest buyer of Perodua Kancil. Back in 1994, he used to trade in his Nissan Bluebird 1.8 so that he managed to buy this car. On that time, most of my classmates used to think that my dad’s got the coolest car in planet earth.

That was my earliest memory of Kancil. After 16 years of production, Perodua decided to stop producing Kancil model. Starting 1 May 2009, there would be no more production for Kancil even there’s always demand for it.

It’s an iconic car. People used to love it. Boy in campus used it to pick up a girl and their users vary from makcik to hot chick. With more than 750,000 productions since 1994, it became the 2nd successful Malaysian car model after Proton Saga. Former mat rempit might used this car during the transition period from motorcycle to a car. Some stupid guys who got nobody to sponsor them in racing, transformed their Kancil to racing car. That was Kancil I knew, affordable and flexible.

Ten years from now, when some of us look at the car they might remember the first time they drove a car, their first girlfriend or even remind them to their first child (who accidentally have been ‘made’ in the car).Err..that’s a different story..