Comments on: Proton Goes To China

By: Nameless

Nameless — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:34:07 +0000

Proton are somehow not relieable… Bunch of problems… The campro engine some review from malaysia named it “HALF BAKED CAMPRO”. hmm.. half baked… means it burns when you driving ??? LOL!! Pity malaysian were forced to buy them and put their life in risk…

By: ezra

ezra — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 02:54:28 +0000

Done ok in My. but then again the home-market has around 150% tariff on imported cars, so its not even a level playing field.
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Even on a level playing field (without extra tariffs), an imported 1200kg japanese sedan will cost about RM70k otr… while a proton 1200kg sedan will be about RM50k otr.

So yeah, it will still be competitive.

By: ezra

ezra — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 02:52:21 +0000

Failed in every market?

Well, sales have been improving in Europe and the middle east. They are being used as police cars in Birmingham, and Taxis in Indonesia and Iran.

Not too bad for a 20 year old company actually.

By: Damo

Damo — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:52:33 +0000

At least they are designing new cars, not just rebadging Mitsubishi Lancer’s and Galants that we released half a decade prior. Owning Lotus is not exactly a bad thing, Proton may be having troubles, but they are going forward, and having some decend handling cars tweaked by Lotus can help life their image I suppose.

By: Reckless1

Reckless1 — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 11:48:26 +0000

It’ll win COTY in China.

By: 280zx

280zx — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 06:46:12 +0000

Good China can have them LOL…

By: Frugal One

Frugal One — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 05:13:25 +0000

LOL

Proton has pretty muched failed in every market it has tried to enter.

Done ok in My. but then again the home-market has around 150% tariff on imported cars, so its not even a level playing field.

I will give them $1 mill. for Lotus, they can keep the rest

Cheers

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