Proton mgmt team is a disaster.How can they approve such models Tiara ,Juara and Arena
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**JUST A FACT**

Proton Arena was called Proton Jumbuck in Australia and it’s very popular among aussie….

At home in the shop floor?Which shop floor?Lotus and Agusta shopfloor may be where he is more comfortable with?It is lucky that Protob sold off Agusta and also should sell off 'blood sucking ' Lotus.If the sale of Agusta was bad where is the uproar?The uproar comes only from two people and you know who…If they think it is a very very very bad decision,why don't they buy it maybe for 2Euro.Hah cakap pandai …kalau duit tak da jangan cuba pakai duit orang.

Mahaleel is a car racer.Tried to build racing cars for Proton and then build the huge Tanjong Malim Plant.Yeah that is eccentric and I sure do not find his equivalent in the automotive industries, however brother you got to be number one in the world then you can be eccentriclah…kalau tak you jadi muka tak malu.

This is not Malaysian vs Mat Salleh, Eastern vs Western kinda of deal……….

its a Policy maker vs Consumer agenda……….

Proton kept the first part of the promise by introducing distinctive originals in the form of the Waja, Gen-2, Savvy and Neo, but many Malaysians appear to have not found their pride, perhaps because badge engineered models – the Saga, Wira and Perdana – which share the same brand are still being sold alongside the originals.

Great car companies – Ford, Mercedes Benz, Rolls Royce etc .. were infact built up by eccentrics – With the exception of Hendry Ford, Carl Benz and Charles Rolls were hardly businessmen but were surrounded by brains in business. Mahaleel, I must say, is another eccentric. His decision to procure the non-commercial Agusta gem proves it but then, anyone who dismisses Agusta has not wholly read its history.

Mindful that the Neo was mooted during his tenure, Mahaleel is the only CEO Proton had with cars hard-wired into his psyche. The man was at home on the workshop floor.

That’s what Proton floor needs. A CEO with cars hard-wired into his psyche. A 'businessman CEO' will take Proton back the easy Perodua, Naza or Cherry 'badge engineering’ way. Simply put, assembling very durable but ‘legalized imitations’.

Such a product is nothing but a defilement of intellectual property. It is void of heritage and parasitic to its owner simply because it gobbles resources and contributes nothing to the development of the brand, not to mention the reputation of the owner.

Pardon my French, but the 'weed up Proton’s arse' is not an eccentric CEO but the layers that bear upon itself, particularly upon its component manufacturers – the Ali Baba factor.

That group with the "proven track record" is the reason that Proton is in the crapper today. Cars designed to suit one individual's personal tastes and sensitivities went out in the 1940s and an allergy to them is the reason that Toyota is Number One on this planet. Proton spent years building what cast-off slag heaps Mitsubishi dumped at Port Klang and then moved on making cars to suit top management with little or no concern for the buying public who support such decisions with their own hard-earned Ringlet. Guess what? They walked.

I can imagine the old management team would say that you “have to be a niche player” and that “volume cars are boring”. Yes, Toyotas as exemplified by the Corolla will bore an enthusiast to tears, but there are a lot more non-enthusiast buyers than enthusiasts. Also, a brief steer of a Mazda 3 or Mazda 6 will tell you that if you make a mass-market sedan boring you've got nobody to blame but yourself. Family sedans can please enthusiasts, it just takes a little will power instead of won't power.

Now with competition well-established in the market and a product range based in non-competitive vehicles that are handicapped in export, Proton has to earn back the trust of Malaysian and overseas buyers. Given the fact that the range of non-competitive vehicles is courtesy of those people with a “proven track record”, it may be time for the team currently trying to untangle Mahatir's mess to develop and prove their own track record. They're capable of it and with support (and I am not talking the monetary kind) it is possible, though it will be far from easy. But with work the current Proton range is quite salvageable. Some of it is in fact a really good starting point to produce people-pleasing products.

All the old group would do is find another bankrupt company to buy (hmmm…I hear Smart and Chrysler are on the market) and then complain to the Government that Proton needs more protection.

I agree that Proton sure needs continued protection and a whole LOT of it. All from the former management and 'advisor'.

http://www.customs.gov.my/html/cbu2006warta.htm

oh, now i get it..

he got a TUN- fastest Tun awardship receiver in malaysia history!!

i agredd wit y'all who wan2 remove all d Tun M's cronies.

they should go 2 kencana petroleum n bcome directors

hahaha

April 22, 2007 @ 11:29 pm

oh mine.. i just found out our P1 Satria neo and Lotus europa S is second runner up of worst car and disappointment car of the year…

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haha.. mayb P1 still happy with this since they had improve from "champion" to runner up..

or else P1 car will make a lagend, continuously 3 year to win the worst car of the year!!!!!!! M'sia Boleh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by the way….who is tun m?

Pheww, glad it's over .

What is the old management capable of doing? Turning back time? Performing miracles?

You really still popular…

even IF VW or GM took over, they would revamp the whole thing from

INSIDE-OUT.

from suppliers chain till customers…

from materials, WIP, till end products…

from work instruction till procedure…

ITS A WHOLE ORGANIZATION REVAMP! and SYSTEM REVAMP!

drainout those "toxic" blood and pump in new blood…

I was just watching the Honda FCX concept and the first thing that came into my mind was: THIS IS THE FUTURE OF AUTOMOBILE.

Electric powered vehicle with long distance capability.

Soon automobile will evolve in that direction. And if Proton is stucked within our limited local market, we will not expose ourself to the technical know how of these technologies. That's why a partnership with the big international players will benefit us in more ways than one.

Just like a kampung boy who thinks that his kerbau is the best tool for the sawah padi when the rest of the world is using big machineries.

What track record?

The growth of Proton locally was fuelled by a huge pricing gap. Locals just cant afford any other decent non-national cars as they slap a huge tax on it. They purchase proton simply because they HAD TO. So if they are gonna gauge performance based on local sales, they are obviously not looking at the right direction. And to see that some locals go beyond their spending limits just to buy the cheapest non-national car just to avoid the quality issues, says alot about his so call "track record".

The argument to sell Proton to local players is just merely PRIDE. And PRIDE will kill you one day if you take too much of it.

Same if Bahasa Malaysia was the national language, I might be more inclined to use it. Now being called Bahasa Melayu, I really wont be bothered.

For the record, I'm not a racist by a long shot but the government must give the rest of us a reason to be patriotic. Look at the French. Most will only buy a french vehicle because they believe it means something to them. THAT…is National Pride.

Provide full 5 year free full maintenance and service and warranty to all its products with the current price drop about 10%.

Sell it to Wolf's Wagon lah. National pride, what national pride? Look at Toyota, Kia, Hyundai, that's national pride my friend.