Proton to make Turkey European production center
According to a report by Turkish paper Today’s Zaman, Proton intends to make Turkey its European production center. Proton’s Turkish distributor is Ulu Motor, part of the Ulubaslar Group.
The Turkish automotive industry produced 1.13 million vehicles last year, and expects to hit the 2 million annual production mark by 2012. It is now ranked number 10 in the world in terms of annual production of cars. In the past 4 months this year, Turkey’s automotive exports rose 52% compared to the same period in 2007.
Next stop: Kuantan
May 3, 2008 @ 4:29 pm
If I’m not mistaken, Proton closed shop on its Turkey manufacturing operations long time ago.
May 3, 2008 @ 5:41 pm
Ulu distributor? Bwahahahahahahahah…..
Anyway, this is what we want to hear.
May 3, 2008 @ 6:42 pm
gudlah, time to reenter the market. late but not too late. if you read the article, there is some import issue in 2000. after that problem, other asian importer come back,,,,,ermmm….but not p1… let they try,gud luck,,,if no luck,,,then just stay here and ask gov to help u..haha
May 3, 2008 @ 6:53 pm
i tink in ulu klang la !
b4 seting up any operation thr,thy hav to market their cars first..thn see if its feasible…
May 3, 2008 @ 7:57 pm
e-nabilll said,
May 3, 2008 @ 6:53 pm
i tink in ulu klang la !
b4 seting up any operation thr,thy hav to market their cars first..thn see if its feasible…
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Or even worst, Ulu Kapit!!! hahahaha jk jk
This is what we wanna hear… hehe
May 3, 2008 @ 7:59 pm
This was what greeted me in Istanbul 2005 a day after the Liverpool Juve match.
http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/8241/picture048dustywirraea6.jpg
That car was parked at the hotel car fleet area. Clearly can see like it has not moved for years
May 3, 2008 @ 8:02 pm
Something wrong with the blog? I tried to post image of Wira in Turkey, my post did not come out
May 3, 2008 @ 8:03 pm
Here is the pic: http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/8241/picture048dustywirraea6.jpg
May 3, 2008 @ 8:27 pm
hei don’t kutuk2 ulang klang la!! that’s my place! it’s not mundur sangat what!!
May 3, 2008 @ 11:48 pm
there goes proton’s pr deparment spinning its web again. thier sales in australia/uk decimated already now even thinking of entering europe. hopeless. wat a waste of our money. different team. same old crap.
makes me so angry. i think i’d have to knock myself out.
May 4, 2008 @ 12:23 am
wahahaha, ulu motor.
really ulu ah.
May 4, 2008 @ 12:32 pm
topgunthang said,
May 3, 2008 @ 11:48 pm
there goes proton’s pr deparment spinning its web again. thier sales in australia/uk decimated already now even thinking of entering europe. hopeless. wat a waste of our money. different team. same old crap.
makes me so angry. i think i’d have to knock myself out.
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be +ve la weh.. dont think like a ulu kg guy… their hv make the decision, for sure their how what the consequences.. dont jz cakap ikut sedap mulut..
May 4, 2008 @ 12:57 pm
relax carsut… all we need to do is help him knock himself out over and over again..
May 5, 2008 @ 8:11 am
Whats the benefit of building cars in Turkey?
Proton has already got more than excess of manufacturing capacity.
May 5, 2008 @ 8:45 am
topgunthang, are you 100% sure proton pr dept did this? i find it very strange, because there isn’t even any news about this in the local papers. knowing proton, and being a listed company, you cant simply blurt out news like this. sounds more like speculation on the turkish media’s part.
besides that, if you’re gonna post about sales figures, why dont you enlighten us all about proton’s uk and australia sales figures? i cant seem to find any info on it at all on the web. maybe i’m searching in the wrong place.
as for turkey, strangely enough, the turkish proton website doesnt even list the proton wira as being on sale at all. that picture of the old wira doesnt mean anything. if i took a pic of an abandoned old car of any brand, and posted it on the web and said that company kaput already doesnt make it true either.
May 5, 2008 @ 11:45 am
maybe there is this phantom proton factory?
May 6, 2008 @ 12:04 pm
For those been to Turkiye, what kind of cars do folks there drive really.. big or small, European, American or Japanese… Does Savvy and Persona make sense in Turkiye? Coz if I’m not mistaken, Savvy enjoyed not bad sales in UK? or smthin’.
May 8, 2008 @ 3:24 pm
Difficult to find stats….
UK proton sales 2007: 2,468 units (0.1% of total market, 2.4million new cars registered). Don’t have the breakdown by model.
Source:
http://www.smmt.co.uk/dataservices/dsarchive.cfm?catid=1134&maincatid=551&sid=-2&info=privacy
download report from Dec 2007
For comparison, P2 sales: 767 units
May 8, 2008 @ 4:24 pm
P1 sales in UK 2007: 2,468 units (0.01% of total 2.4 million new registrations)
Don’t know split by model.
May 8, 2008 @ 4:26 pm
source:
http://www.smmt.co.uk/dataservices/dsarchive.cfm?catid=1134&maincatid=551&sid=-2&info=privacy
download the december 2007 data
May 8, 2008 @ 4:30 pm
CAn’t seem to post the url of the source for this data. It’s on
ssmt dot co dot uk.