segunda-feira, 10 de fevereiro de 2020

Bedford CF in Malaysia?


I found some photos on facebook of a Bedford CF in Malaysia. I was thinking that it was probably imported into the country from Australia perhaps but after a search online I learned that Bedford was actually sold in Malaysia!

This article from Commercial Motor, May 1982, is titled "Malaysian malaise for once-proud Bedford" and reports the decline of Bedford sales in favour of japanese rivals Toyota, Nissan and Isuzu. It seems that Malaysia's police and ambulance service had large fleets of CF vans but they were suffering from a lot of rear wheel and axle problems. A Bedford salesman actually had a slogan: "Sell a CF and lose a customer". That was not a good sign for Bedford... General Motors had more interest in promoting Isuzu in which they had a stake in and political problems between Malaysia and British Government policies also helped for the downfall of Bedford in that country.







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