Proton Motorsports will skip next month’s Tour de Corse-E.Leclerc, the third round of this season’s Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC) at Corsica. The team will instead put full focus on the Queensland Rally in Australia, which will be held from 13-15 May (Tour de Corse runs from 12-14 May).
The Aussie rally is the second round of the Asia Pacific Rally Championship (APRC), which Proton leads thanks to a 1-3 finish in the Malaysian Rally.
The striking yellow Neo S2000s will resume their IRC challenge in the following event, the Prime Yalta Rally in Ukraine. To be held in early June, Yalta is new to the IRC, but is a regular fixture in Ukraine’s national rally championship. It’s an asphalt event that includes stages in mountains overlooking the Black Sea city of Yalta in Ukraine’s Crimea region.
It’s uncharted territory for IRC drivers, but that’s the reason why Proton’s PG Andersson is looking forward to it. “I like to get to know a place where other drivers haven’t been before. Nobody has an advantage when it is like this and I like it when the stages are more rough and bumpy,” the 30-year old Swede said.
The other Neo will be driven by Giandomenico Basso. The Italian scored Proton’s first points of the season by finishing ninth in the Rally Islas Canarias, Spain, earlier in the month.
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Aaa?
are you mad ?
Can Proton honestly tell us how percent of the rally cars parts/components are from our current vendors that is supplying parts to our Satria?
Instead of putting money into improving the quality of their shitty cars,Proton is spending money of a PR marketing campaign. The CEO thinks by winning rallys the public will change their perception of it battered imaged. Their stunt to outpaced a helicopter was stupid. How many of us while at the traffic lights see a helicopter on the road? Even if the car was faster than the chopper,it CANNOT fly but the heli CAN!!!
Our PM wants to increase our income in the next 5 years to help the Rakyat. I say he can help us now by making things cheaper! 1/3 of our income goes to our house repayment and 1/3 goes to our CAR. By making cars cheaper we can enjoy the saving now and buy things that we need. Trying to keep the 300s vendors supplying about $7billion of parts who are employing about 20000 workers dont make sense. These socialists vendor will never improve their quality because of the national car policy.We all know the price of cars overseas! Because of the need to keep these300 shiity vendors alive and in business 23 million Rakyat have to suffer. Since when in a democratic country can the minority suppress the majority!!!
Their idea of pumping in $260million into LOTUS is a joke. After 27 years of protectinism given to them at our pocket expenses,Proton is still struggling to sell the cars here and yet have the aspiration to compete in an open level playing field.I wonder if the CEO is drinking the drugged tap water since the launch of their Persona!
Seeing their campaign on the Persona,I can understand why the DJs are smiling with glee ,wouldnt you if you get a free car and get to lie in public and not be arrested!! :-)
Ok!cool story…you can rest your finger now!!
I think it is not about have to do this and that, not to do this and that. It is about how to do the things you are doing in correct way and be persistent. That is the difference between competent and incompetent.
Lets follow the proton export figure closely.
Obviously you did not read the article on the lifetime warranty from proton….something is being done. Slow or too late..? maybe but still something is being done. Better late than never. They are even initiative to weed out unreliable supplier featured in PT some time ago. Now, they need to change people’s perception towards its cars. That’s where the PR comes in. PR relates to marketing and sales. You say Proton is struggling in sales but you dont want them to do any PR…so how are they going to promote?
One more thing, you are implying that the S2000 promo should be a drag race at a normal traffic light. Are you crazy?
don’t be so cheap, many people working very hard to earn them self a mazda, honda, toyota or other European brand car. Read MAA report and you will be surprise to know that over 600,000 car being registered last year.
Instead of complaining, just work hard and earn your self a better car, or are you can keep hoping the G will make this country tax free. Gone car tax, welcome income tax. Remember folks, food price wont stay at this rate forever too.
why don’t you just go straight to the point? you want a cheap car right? xD
Pity.. both events overlapping. I would love to see this team score some points in IRC (as well as APRC of course)
so pity..but they had advantages over APRC’s lead..
I think by having 4 cars and 4 drivers (Mcrae, Atko, PG and Basso) they can run both rally on the same time.
Is it just because Proton Motorsport just only have one Chris Mellor?
maybe….and maybe not enough crew also…(or fund)
Aisey man…..I honestly wish they compete in the irc with atkinson and mcrae…rather then second tier aprc……
What car is that?i mean that yellow one???
perodua myvi
nope…it was suzuki swift JWRC :lol:
sorry.. we all illiterate here… still hoping some one can give us an answer what is that striking yellow car. LOL
adoyaii … next time must upah Kimi Raikkonen to drive PROTON in IRC and WRC la.
Lifetime warranty on power window!. The CEO of Proton story is not new. Tengku Mahaleel story sold the same story when he took over Proton,saying he was embarrass when he everyday he goes to work at Batu Tiga toll to see all the Proton owners opening their doors to pay the toll. He vowed to to change this perception during the vendor meeting.Ten years later now we hear the same story.
Life Time warranty means nothing when every six month Proton change the parts for you free of charge. Heck the hassle of going to service centre often itself is enough to put you off claiming the warranty.
Its sad to see the CEO using the story of the taxi driver as a PR exercise to improve the shitty image of Proton. In the case of Tengku Mahaleel he was trying to use TUV quality to show that things has change. Didnt fool anyone except people who have not own a proton before or people who were to poor to buy other car brands.
I agree with APAX,why the hype about the S2000 it will never be sold to the public. Its just for Proton to SYIOK sendiri only.
After 27 years of giving them protection against other cars assemblers for them to grow and improve and the expense of the rakyat,what did Proton give us- a rebadge car and the cheek to call it INSPIRA. You dont need to wait for 27 years for INSPIRATION to rebadge a car. Its like dejavu when Tun Mahathir first told us 26 years ago that Malaysia will have its own car which is a rebadge LANCER.
If Proton was a school and Tun Mahathir is the headmaster and Syed Zainal is the teacher what this two guys are telling us that we should be proud of them because after 27 years Proton has produce students that can spell but CANT READ!
While everybody else in town can read and write.:-)
talk is easy…
condemn is easier…
so u r predicting that DSZ = TgkuM? ;)
The one who can’t read is you! Mitsubishi Motor Corporation knows that it has committed to purchase the components produced in Malaysia for export to other countries, particularly in Thailand, for its Mitsubishi models.
If Proton is only doing rebadging, MMC could have obtained the components from Thailand or elsewhere cheaper. No need Proton.
After 27 years, Proton has produced a professor within Lotus.
Just the Facts:
•Lotus Engineering claims to have “significant” interest from three major car manufacturers in the dedicated range-extender hybrid engine it unveiled at the 2010 Geneva Auto Show.
•So far, the three-cylinder Lotus engine has appeared in the Jaguar Limo Green, Proton EMAS and Lotus Evora 414E hybrid prototypes.
•Lotus has significantly redesigned the engine in response to feedback from potential buyers.
http://www.insideline.com/lotus/lotus-hybrid-engine-draws-manufacturers-interest.html
Money will come into Proton.. thats why the banks are lining up to lend money.
As Dany Bahar has mentioned, Lotus may become an engine manufacturer in F1 but it looks the road cars as well.
if racing or rallying is syiok sendiri, then i wonder why skoda, vw, mini, bmw, chevy, porsche, lambo, toyota, honda, mitsu, subaru, ford, peugeot, mercedes, mazda, holden, renault, etc. etc. etc.