The BBC presenter has been filmed attacking the Perodua Kelisa with a sledgehammer before blowing it up.
But minister Abdul Raman Suliman defended the nation's car industry, saying Mr Clarkson was like a football commentator who cannot play football.
Perodua had not received a single complaint from UK owners, he told MPs.
He added that the comments were made merely to boost sales of the Top Gear magazine.
'Soulless'
Mr Clarkson has voiced his frustrations with the small three-cylinder model in both magazine articles and on film.
In one article, he said its name was like a disease and suggested it was built in jungles by people who wear leaves for shoes.
And in a DVD car review, he described it as "unimaginative junk, with no soul, no flair and no passion".
He then smashed it, hung it from a crane with a one-tonne weight attached, before blowing it up.
Perodua is Malaysia's second national carmaker and began producing small compact models in 1995.
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Living in denial... it's definitely not the overstatement of the year that this particular car is (I quote) "an unimaginative junk, no soul, no flair and no passion"... Yes, I must agree, the jungle people and name-disease relationship is very very annoying and harsh but seriously speaking, the car could (and should have) been better designed. Small and compact doesn't have to be ugly, just look at Toyota Yaris, ever so popular that Toyota developed an upgraded version of the same car.
Just accept the fact and ponder... it wouldn't kill to admit "mistakes" and improvise.
Plus, it's old news mate...
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