The companies roots extend back to 1983 and originally consisted of the assembly in the Integrated Complex settled factory covering an area of 541,070 m2.
Since the opening of the plant, 13,000 vehicles per year produced in-house and more than 47,000 complete knock down kits are assembled for the local and surrounding markets.
Previously, the company assembled some of Proton models like Iswara, Satria, Putra, Tiara and Juara at 1990's prior to 2005.
The design of VW's strategy also looks at making the cheapest car in the world that could be here in the Malaysian plant to be possibly produced.
There are rumours of the potential exciting ventures from other premium brand such as Jaguar, and the Indian giant carmaker Tata.
HICOM Automotive currently assembles Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi, and Volkswagen vehicles for the Malaysian market.
[2] The plant had previously assembled vehicles from Tata, Isuzu, Suzuki, Citroën, Proton, Naza, Kia, Daewoo, BMC, SsangYong, Weststar, and Fuso.