DRB-Hicom has promised free cars for Malaysian medallists at the 2016 Rio Olympics, with the local conglomerate dangling the carrot of a new Proton Perdana 2.0L for those who score a gold medal.
The company’s managing director and Proton chairman Datuk Seri Syed Faisal Albar said that apart from the D-segment sedan reserved for gold medal recipients, silver medallists will also win a Suprima S Turbo Premium, while those netting bronze medals are set to win an Iriz 1.6L Premium.
As DRB-Hicom and Proton have always carried the Malaysian flag in all that we do, this gesture is in line with our pride towards Jalur Gemilang,” he said. “We hope that this will provide further encouragement to our athletes to strive harder to make our beloved Malaysia proud especially at the highest level such as the Olympics.”
So far, those medallists include Chan Peng Soon and Goh Liu Ying, who secured a silver medal in the mixed doubles badminton tournament, while Pandelela Rinong and Cheong Jun Hoong received another silver in the 10 m synchronised diving event. Azizulhasni Awang also bagged a bronze medal in the men’s keirin cycling event.
The nation’s hopes of snatching its first Olympic gold medal now rest on the badminton pair of Goh V Shem and Tan Wee Kiong, who will go up against Chinese players Fu Haifeng and Zhang Nan in the men’s doubles final tonight. National badminton superstar Lee Chong Wei is also in the running, and will also be in the spotlight tonight to take on China’s Lin Dan in the men’s singles semifinal.
Malaysia’s campaign in the 2016 Rio Olympics has already produced the biggest medal haul for the country, surpassing the 2012 London Olympics – which saw Lee Chong Wei earning a silver medal in men’s singles badminton and Pandelela Rinong scoring bronze in the 10 m individual diving event.
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hahaha, does the car come with free service and repair for 10 years?
Champions & winners drive Toyota and Perodua.
Even fellow Malaysians don’t buy the car, no one drive it on the road, why give junk to our medalist?
You must be blind then
after this, everyone wil want to be an athlete.. most other people work for decades to get what those athletes get.
Proton…is actually BANKRUPT/INSOLVENT.
1.5 bILLION SOFT LOAN…from TAXPAYERS
Now,Proton is SO LOADED to give away Rm100,000K plus.What a BAD PIECE OF SHIT management.
Perodua can afford to do that.Not cancer striken Proton.
When u have cancer,u need the 100,000 Rm for self use.Not trying to tayang…show off u are RICH.
Other money making entities like UMW,P2,Mazda can donate 100K.You already lost Rm641 Juta last year.What are u trying to proof?
Memalukan.PENGEMIS KAYA DI BOLEHLAND.
Our athletes are very lucky, got free good car like Proton. U see, our Proton is world class standard like our athletes, using Proton means you’re using the likes of BMW and Volvo. Now, we are no longer jaguh kampung, but jaguh dunia!
Our athletes’world is Olympic games. Proton’s world is Wangsa Maju & Putrajaya. Different world ok?
Pity you live in remote area
I take PM as my role model $$$
Waiting for post from negative copy and paste comment here
Wherever your boss hides, we will catch him
first thing the gold medalist would do is sell it cash back.
You think got ppl wanna pay RM 100k to a proton, some more it is used unit? Sozai/stupid/bodoh to the max!
I bet who win the gold medal, will sale the Perdana for RM100K, and buy cash the TRD Sportivo Toyota Vios.. Toyota have RV!
Noone wins gold yet
Gold medalist get Accord celup? What a joke.
Apart from cash they also got cars…wow excellent…
Proton, syarikat yang tak tahu malu. Shamelessly took RM1.5B from our Gov and now give junks to our athletes?
P2 sells mass death trap you tak bash pulak
Topkek
OMG…all these models are unsellable cars here. that why FOC loh…
Free car, but they still have to fork up for road tax and insurance.
and seriously 2.0 and not the 2.4 variant? Alang-alang la they should give the best version.
Really demotivate the athletes from winning medals.
really? is this the most useful comment you can come up with?
Gold : no VSC
Silver : got VSC
Bronze : got VSC
Topkek proton.
See the price la, this is free not to buy
After quick resell of the cars within a month:
Gold – Rm100k cash
Silver – Rm70K cash
Bronze – Rm60K cash
With Proton, Nirvana is one step closer to our gold medalist
Nirvana story again. Seriously??
NOT FUNNY AT ALL.
Expecting similar move from P2. Can offer shares in PNB and both UMW at value similar to Perdana, Prevé and Iriz. Got balls or not?
Macai very clever now using nickname from kicap tiram brand.
Aiya paiseh leh
Can P1 offer shares at value similar to RM1.5B. Got balls or not?
Tak laku…nobody want to buy, give away la
Proton is very smart so gip ‘free’ unsold junks to our athletes
You cannot afford one you work hard lor
who need Proton when he/she got Perodua or other car?!
Why you jelly?
*yawn*
Not the 2.4?
I mean seriously, this is gold were talking, for athletes that’s trained hard for years, making Malaysians proud and certain Malaysian publications.I mean there’s effort, just not a A for effort.
Damn, now the athlete will give up for their gold madal
Proton is a deathtrap for Malaysian and now our athelete
Huh? Noone gets gold yet. You are dreaming too much
Personalize the car first la before giving, maybe engrave their name ke, lifetime power window warranty ke.
Nah, it better to have a special plate like CH1841
No junk for our medalist!!
Still can resell, you said junk? Go back to your death trap toyitaik and p2
Only a 2.0?
So, athlete who won gold medal will get car with 4 airbags and no VSC while the one who got silver or bronze will get car with 6 airbags and ESP. Hardly seems fair isn’t it? Why don’t give them the 2.4 instead?
C’mon lah. Atleast give the 2.4 for gold medal & 2.0 for silver maybe a suprima for bronze. Or is Proton hoping that no one wins gold so they dont have to give anything?
DRB…better give other car brand to these olympic medal winner..
NO ESC……gold medalist in danger !!
Nirvana package for our bestest best athlete
Stupid. They can sell it anytime they want unlike your 9 years loan p2 death trap
lepas tu, trading bli toyota…
Surely this must be a mistake. Sliver and bronze get premium trim is Suprima and Iriz but gold gets the bare bone 2.0??
Great and noble way to dump unwanted stock.
Fighting, Malaysia!
No need bashing, stand united for same goal – gold medal by player, public holiday for the nation
Close down Proton, fight for our economy freedom
In Thai no p1 other cars oso expensive, your point?
What a joke!! DRB-Hicom owns Mecedes Malaysia too, so should reward something better wad…
Should sponsor one LOTUS la …
a gold medal is only worth RM113k?
at least la, give RM1 million for gold.
hey proton u want the athletes to not win gold is it
Much better than your 30 years old car
Pipu are so hard to please, giving it for free pun you keep complain!
Topkek
All the comments and no one realized. Editor, “GAN Liu Ying”? “Goh Liu Ying” I supposed?
Whoops, sorry, got that one wrong! The article has been amended. Thanks for the spot!
i bet 6 months after, they will still be waiting for the ‘promised’ rewards.
Just proton?????
Usain bolt got bmw as a gift for gold medal
But Proton is the Asian BMW.
Gold medal earning 1M cash and 5k every month.
bolt also break world record and that is why he got bmw. I believe our athlete also can get merc from drb-hicom if they can break any world record
Proton is ‘BMW of Asia’ u know?
Only BMW? Why not Bentley?
Haven’t seen a single unit on the road.
No wonder free give away!
Aiyah…. free what…. just take la. After all many more incentives have been or will be given to these Malaysian heroes.
Good luck fellow M’sians in Rio. Will fly in FLOM in her private jet shortly.
Aha…LCW would just gift the Accordana to someone else when he’s driving around in Lambo’s.
I’m sure LCW will stop driving his Aventador if he wins this! haha
Superb marketing campaign by Proton..you ought to announce the free car giveaway BEFORE athletes compete at Rio to boost their motivation to win a gold & train harder. Not after half way through the games where Malaysian athletes already completed their games – Proton wants to make public announcement for a freebie. How la to stop bashing Proton when when they keep making a fool of themselves like this ??
Its just a piece of junk from Honda’s recycle bin
Tell such comment to your jepunis overlord cars, the do rebadging too
Kasi lotus la
if someone already afford gtr or lambo wo gold medal…so perdana 2.0 enough to bayar those mentioned road tax ke…
Boring. Should be Gold – S Class, Silver – E Class and Bronze – C Class.
Cheh tak heran laa.
dulu team gua menang Thomas Cup dapat 1hektar tanah + rm1 juta cash + Perdana V6 ori punya.
Free gift to athletes and can put it into sales.
2 birds with one stone
They should give it to losers of olympic challenge!!
Why not award Honda accord 2.4 premium for gold medalists, Honda civic 1.5 turbo for silver medalists and Honda city for bronze medalists?
No Accordana.
tenkiu YB.. kete sy skrg Nissan Skyline GTR
Proton is hardly able to survive on their own both financially and technically and yet wanna give out car for free… They are using taxpayer money (government fund)!!
Good move by associating with champions. Indirectly this means willingness to compete at the highest level and also the confidence of its ability to succeed.
Free just take??! Tong sampah kah?? No need place to park ka??
Sell? If Proton has a show room with aircond also can’t sell, You can sell meh?? People rather take cash half the value of the car lah.
somemore need to do wayang advertisement for them when go collect the car. Tak mau lah!
P2 why no gip dedak?
Those who win as a pair get only 1 car, or 1 each (that means 2 cars)?
lol wat la, at least give the 2.4 version la, give 2.0 version macam not sincere like dat
Accordana probably one of P1 hard to swallow mistake. Started with good intention to work with Honda but end up being burned back. The problem is Accord is lowsy and obsolete car. Should have rebadge Ford Mondeo or equivalent, then people head will turn!
Tell that to toyitaik engine in vios that been used for generations!
Why need to make them all suffer after all that hard work?
Even my dog dont want to pee on proton wheels ….kakaka….
You can afford give free? Whose money? The from the 1.5 bil ‘loan’?
Before basher said unsold stock, ni kata from loan pulak
Topkek
Unsold stocks still shown in the book. Of course its proton norm to do everything off record.
Slandering is high in here
Not even VSC for Olympic gold medal owners? No wonder no one won gold medal! No one wants more junk at home!
Kid, they dun even pay for it why so much fuss?
You don’t have to pay for ramly burgers in my rubbish bin too, now come take them back as your breakfast tomorrow.
Junk= free also no one touch. Study harder, boy.
Same L00 lupa makan ubatkah?
Kahkahkah
Should not have offered it. Look what happen? We didn’t get the gold! Jinxed maaa
Appreciating athletes that get gold medals with an 8 year old Honda Accord. Embarrassing la
And yet you cannot afford one, pity
They JINX it… Damn….
No money pay to suppliers but can give away free cars. Hebat.