Comments on: Terengganu Mercedes-Benz: What the industry says

By: Archer

Archer — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:59:55 +0000

Why must the Mercedes be the lowest cost to maintain? At that monthly maintenance rate that they claim for the Perdana V6, any 15 year old banger will be cheaper not just a brand new Mercedes.

There is definitely some monkey business going on and surprised that the state financial controllers did not raise any questions prior to the last general elections. On the other hand do our Ministers really deserve such luxury cars? I don’t think so, it’s simply abuse of the tax payer’s money.

By: torque

torque — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:06:38 +0000

Nonsense! Nothing what they said can back up their excuses to purchase any luxury cars using the people’s money!!

By: lwkon1

lwkon1 — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:24:23 +0000

All govt cars are purchased tax and duty free. I think the purchase price of the mercs should be lower than reported in the press. It is definitely cheaper to purchase and maintain japanese or continental cars if they were tax free. I think it’s a no brainer choice. Imagine proton and perodua’s position if the free market were to rule our automotive industrY?

By: bmpower

bmpower — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:21:16 +0000

Trengganu citizen now get ‘punished’ even they are vote for BN.
and in this 4 years to come.. they are living in ’sakit hati to BN’ every day.
but they have to wait 4 years more for PRU13.
Such a pain.. indeed

By: ericfoong81exe@

ericfoong81exe@ — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:54:29 +0000

MALAYSIA BOLEH…..what so ever, CORRUPTION also boleh mah….RM 3.5k maintainance fees and only 17% is lodged to service at the Proton Eon service center. Means the rest can all “buta buta” bill from nowhere since serviced their car out of the Eon service center. Think those money already taken to paid for their own mercz installment…..

By: capeplates

capeplates — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:38:31 +0000

Corruption is a way of life to this regime. Their actions against the own population are as bad as Mugabe but I dont hear demands for greater sanctions etc against them

By: NoToLowQuality

NoToLowQuality — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:21:14 +0000

1st of all… congratulate to terengganu folks for choosing BN. they drive mercs while you drive kap chai. terengganu boleh.

By: ckcheong

ckcheong — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:25:25 +0000

This kind of corruption very common in our country. Don’t be surprise if you see more in other areas.
I was wondering how much was Mr Abudllah and Mr Wajib’s kereta Poton maintenance cost?

By: JULIANLEE2

JULIANLEE2 — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:46:11 +0000

merc?proton? both sux

By: mystvearn

mystvearn — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:47:46 +0000

Malaysia is a rich country, but so missmanaged I don’t actually understand how its still there surviving. We need to have a system like UK, all watchdogs. When we had a proposal to make a police watchdog, police reject. How to become 1st world mentality if cannot accept critisim

By: Roti Naan

Roti Naan — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:15:57 +0000

I say Everything is WRONG.

Waitminit!!

Maybe the high cost was due to custom made mod on each of the MERC. The state Govt. hired Chip Foose to OVERHAUL their cars…..

By: SatriaGuy

SatriaGuy — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:41:28 +0000

Guys – first of all, I hope all of us can focus on the matter at hand and avoid trashing Proton. Whether or not the Perdana is poor value when it comes to servicing costs isn’t an issue to us. It is an old car and Govt are obliged to use it for official purposes as far as we can remember.

So it never was a case of Perdana vs. E200K as the Terengganu officials would want you to believe. They are just manufacturing a so-called justifiable reason to buy a luxury car with public funds.

In doing so they have recklessly damaged the image of the National Car company and place doubt in the state govt use of public funds.

Let it be a lesson to us so as to not be self-indulgent and reckless in carrying on our daily affairs. It has its ill consequences.

By: raverus

raverus — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:32:21 +0000

So what? Corruption is a norm here, because of..?

By: Cire

Cire — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:48:13 +0000

Corruptions, needless to say more.

By: jaygan

jaygan — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:24:10 +0000

This is boleh land, anything is pun boleh ma. ha ha ha

By: auctioncenter2u

auctioncenter2u — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:57:40 +0000

Orang BUta pun boleh lihat itu RASUAH lah kawan, MAKAN MINUM MAIN itulah kerja mereka!

By: ganz

ganz — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:49:34 +0000

now u know…what the hack of those in G do everyday

By: 2 dogs

2 dogs — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:43:16 +0000

One word – CORRUPTION, everything else is just Bullshit!

By: xseelan

xseelan — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:35:33 +0000

its the bolehland…..
we can sure expect this kinda off coments…. hahaha

By: monkeysam99

monkeysam99 — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:22:47 +0000

Even if this is “legally” done, any human with average IQ know this is CORRUPTION!!!

Is our government so blind? or they really think Malaysians are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO STUPID!!!

So who is the dumb ass here? Government or the rakyat that voted for this government? hmm…. after all, maybe Malaysians are really this dumb!

By: Kevin Lee

Kevin Lee — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:12:31 +0000

thats pretty true paul. i mean , heck, as much i agree proton is bad (and good in some ways), theres no way to rack up to the price of a car. if the logic prevails, should have sold the troubled car and buy a new one