A while ago I had a chance to visit the
Go Auto assembly plant in Gurun, Kedah. Go Auto is currently
distributors and assemblers for the Great Wall Motors (GWM) brand of vehicles here
in Malaysia. It isn't just the Great Wall Haval M4 being assembled here actually. But there is more to them than meets the eye.
The Go Automobile Manufacturing Sdn Bhd
plant began operations sometime in 2011 and started out assembling
vehicles and 4x4 pickup trucks belonging to Great Wall Motors. These
days the plant can assemble slightly more than 300 units of vehicles
per month and there are plans to expand the size of the factory so
that it may eventually produce over a thousand vehicles per month. At
the moment operations are on a smallish scale compared to the NAZA
plant located in front of it. The Go Auto plant may be small but what
I could see is an efficient system implemented. And they do not only
assemble Great Wall Motor vehicles, they also contract assemble for
other automotive brands from China too.
