{"id":17491,"date":"2025-08-08T04:20:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T20:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparehero.my\/blog\/uncategorized\/only-drive-on-weekends-lah-celebs-towkays-are-skipping-road-tax-for-their-luxury-weekend-cars.html"},"modified":"2026-03-27T15:19:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:19:56","slug":"only-drive-on-weekends-lah-celebs-towkays-are-skipping-road-tax-for-their-luxury-weekend-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparehero.my\/blog\/sme\/only-drive-on-weekends-lah-celebs-towkays-are-skipping-road-tax-for-their-luxury-weekend-cars.html","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOnly drive on weekends lah!\u201d \u2013 Celebs and Towkays are Skipping Road Tax for Their Luxury \u201cWeekend\u201d Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><em>(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jabatanpengangkutanjalanmalaysia\/posts\/pfbid0E5kGKZ7nfB69cqmEnxkhz3WUWM9wkRBsuNai5eMP2wPemVMXbgQgfyecyvzYyRQMl\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook | JPJ Malaysia<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<!--more--><p>It might sound like something straight out of a cheeky chat among car enthusiasts, but believe it or not, there are reports suggesting that some high\u2011profile Malaysian celebrities and businessmen are playing a quirky loophole with their flashy weekend toys.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are talking about Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Porsches that are&nbsp; allegedly being kept off\u2011the\u2011radar when it comes to renewed road tax and insurance. The logic? These beauties are merely \u201cweekend cars\u201d, hardly ever on the road and therefore do not deserve the urgency of always\u2011on documentation.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/144634072.fs1.hubspotusercontent-eu1.net\/hubfs\/144634072\/Ops%20Luxury%203.jpg?resize=640%2C426&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Ops Luxury 3\" style=\"height: auto; max-width: 100%; width: 1200px;\"><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: normal; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><em>(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jabatanpengangkutanjalanmalaysia\/posts\/pfbid0E5kGKZ7nfB69cqmEnxkhz3WUWM9wkRBsuNai5eMP2wPemVMXbgQgfyecyvzYyRQMl\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook | JPJ Malaysia<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">No Sunday-only exception<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CompareHero previously reported that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparehero.my\/articles\/53-luxury-cars-seized-in-jpj-raid-including-rm3-million-rolls-royce-owned-by-prominent-businessman\"><span>a Rolls\u2011Royce Cullinan worth RM3 million belonging to a well known local businessman<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #212529;\"> was among the 53 cars seized by JPJ during Ops Luxury 2.0 for either expired road tax, lack of valid insurance, driving without licenses or with dubious international permits and even unregistered number plates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Here is where things get spicy. Word from <\/span><span>Berita Harian<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> reveals that Muhammad Kifli Ma Hassan, the Senior Director of Law Enforcement at JPJ, has pointed out that, yes it might be tempting to sidestep renewals if your supercar sleeps most of the week in your garage, but the law does not have a Sunday\u2011only exception. No renewal, even for a so\u2011called weekend cruiser, is still an offence. JPJ is not playing games with that loophole no matter how slick the ride is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/144634072.fs1.hubspotusercontent-eu1.net\/hubfs\/144634072\/Ops%20Luxury%202.jpg?resize=640%2C426&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Ops Luxury 2\" style=\"height: auto; max-width: 100%; width: 1200px;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><em>(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jabatanpengangkutanjalanmalaysia\/posts\/pfbid0E5kGKZ7nfB69cqmEnxkhz3WUWM9wkRBsuNai5eMP2wPemVMXbgQgfyecyvzYyRQMl\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook | JPJ Malaysia<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To drive the point home, JPJ has already identified the owners behind these luxury whips. JPJ has seized a notable 154 luxury vehicles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #212529;\">Kifli explained that these luxury vehicles were tracked down by the department\u2019s personnel who conducted surveillance and undercover operations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #212529;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/144634072.fs1.hubspotusercontent-eu1.net\/hubfs\/144634072\/Ops%20Luxury%205.jpg?resize=640%2C426&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Ops Luxury 5\" style=\"height: auto; max-width: 100%; width: 1200px;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #212529;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/144634072.fs1.hubspotusercontent-eu1.net\/hubfs\/144634072\/Ops%20Luxury%201.jpg?resize=640%2C426&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Ops Luxury 1\" style=\"height: auto; max-width: 100%; width: 1200px;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #212529;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><em>(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jabatanpengangkutanjalanmalaysia\/posts\/pfbid0E5kGKZ7nfB69cqmEnxkhz3WUWM9wkRBsuNai5eMP2wPemVMXbgQgfyecyvzYyRQMl\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook | JPJ Malaysia<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some of the vehicles were operated by foreign drivers with no valid road tax or insurance. One driver even produced what turned out to be a fake international driving permit allegedly bought in Dubai for RM5,000. A number of the supercars had reportedly not renewed road tax since 2022.<\/p>\n<p>JPJ\u2019s message is clear\u2026 nobody is above the law (even if they can afford the fines).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source: Facebook | JPJ Malaysia)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":268230141,"featured_media":168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[647],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sme"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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