Proton is confident of reclaiming the number one spot in vehicle sales from Perodua, and wants to do this within the next two years, Bernama reports.
This goal was revealed by Proton executive chairman Tan Sri Mohd Khamil Jamil at yesterday’s launch of the Nama Siapa Hebat naming contest for Proton’s upcoming compact car. “We intend and are sure of making a come back to the number one slot within the next two years,” he told reporters.
He added that Proton is working very hard to introduce new car models with value-added advantages to the local market, within the next 24 months. The much-spied Preve Hatchback is coming after Raya, and yesterday’s event confirmed a smaller hatchback due in the first half of 2014. The latter “global small car” is expected to deliver significant volume, taking the fight to Malaysia’s best selling car, the Perodua Myvi.
The Myvi’s maker sold 189,000 vehicles in 2012, its highest ever yearly total, beating 2010’s 188,600 units. The 189k translates to an estimated 30.2% market share. Proton sold 141,121 units in 2012.
President and CEO of Perodua, Datuk Aminar Rashid Salleh has said many times before that P2 has no stated ambition to be number one, but just to provide affordable compact cars to Malaysians. Well it looks like the “accidental champion” will now have to fend of a revitalised Proton currently stocking up on arsenal. Saga SV was the opening salvo. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the show!
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i love the 1985’s proton saga
Whatever it is, if we think about common rakyats and the poor, we should not support implementation of GST. GST will add burden to the poors who are not excluded, it is like, start taxing the poors.
Say no to GST, we don’t want tax reduction of orang kaya and put burden on orang miskin.
And of course, we want safer vehicles for all Malaysians.
Please ask UMW to put 6 airbags + ESP in all their vehicles, then everyone will have to follow in order to sell their vehicles. Except vehicles bought through tenders with buckStar.
You just take care of your koceks, where is your hati nurani/naluri?
Dude, do you notice that PR is promoting socialist idea? Look at East German, North Korea and USSR. Do they move ahead? China is now accelerating to No 1 economy after abandon socialist practice. It looks like promoting rakyat welfare. Tapi sebenarnya ajar rakyat jadi malas, harapkan harga barang tak naik, semua nak subsidi/percuma. Rakyat jadi tak sedar diri, skrg minta vios rega cam saga sv. Nanti dah dpt minta Lamborghini harga cam kapcai. Wak lu !
Haha…macai BN…beli saga dengan harga vios…ditipu lagi nak kata “syukurlah”…puih!!…klau ko kaya sgt & rela ditipu tu mslh kamu…bkan smua bodoh cam lu..
Sapa yang bodoh sebenarnya. Sapa yang kena tipu? Kah kah kah….. Siapa tentang PR di cop macai BN. Aduh, pendek benar akal ko ni. Brader, itu orang politik kencing saja. Depan kita bergaduh, belakang minum semeja. Kita penat2 berjuang, depa jadi PM, YB. Kita jadi apa? Depa bagi diskaun pada kita beli kereta kura2, depa pakai Mercedes, helikopter
Tell that to cronies.
check the vehicle tax structure before u say so, our car is overtax even can paid for fuel subsidy. why we cant request for it? we paid for tax but didn’t enjoy the benefit! siapa yang malas? kroni lar!
Isn’t that what the current leadership is doing???giving subsidies….brim..krim..et al…
rakyat just want the low cost of living….next to house loan, car loan is the biggest contributor to higher cost of living here in malaysia….
Sorry la….No more P1 for me….
They just recently launch the SENYUM campaign…..
Just go to any Proton Official Workshop….any of them smiling ????
GO FLY KITE la P1 !!!!
anyone goes to any workshop will bring their “LONG FACE” no matter what car they bringing in.
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can’t argue more with that. A REEV EMAS would make it possible, not only locally but also globally.. with condition, the after sales services should be improved as well.
Added value and new models ?
HAHAHA !
Pls la f**ls, what we rakyat want is a HIGH QUALITY CAR THATS ALL..
So what if there is a new model and added value when the QUALITY OF EVERYTHING IS S**T ?
no wonder Malaysia is heading down to compete with the “best”.
Hidup B* ! Hidup K***i ! Hidup Orang I**** yang sokong ! HIDUP HIDUP !!
so your myvi is the high quality, eh?
Oh ya. … higher quality than Proton. That’s why so many people buying it.
Both r junk!
the name suits you more
Yeah all cars are junk except your small scale ferrari, lol
Wow. So much hate in one comment.
They are getting towards a high quality car…but it can’t be done in a day. It took all the other carmakers at least 40 years to get to where they are today. Proton has been at the game for 26 years…of which they only started producing their own cars in 2000, so 13 years.
You’d notice that they’ve gotten A LOT better since the days of Waja. You cannot, with any confidence, tell me that the Preve is as good quality as a Waja.
So relax. Go drive your other cars if Proton is not for you. You can buy a good second hand car for that price. :)
HAHAHAHA..
Terima Kasih atas usaha beliau membuat aku lawak
Thanks for making me laugh
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
kid?
Seorang lagi Joker yang membuat aku lawak sama seperti k******n h***m yang kita ada sekarang.. HAHAHA !!
yup.. immature kid.. don’t bother
Excellent comment… RESPECT
where is proton R&D? I didn’t see any effort proton make, any improvement? and you still wanna give more 40 years? proton just disappear! without you we will live better! (comment from 2 proton owner, and never after )
After reading all the comments from all the so called experts here, its no wonder Malaysia’s economy is growing much slower than Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand now. They are getting smarter and we are getting sillier!
The future looks bleak, unless we stoo being so self centered and start learning from others.
pay cheap you get peanuts.
It’s not cheap if based on our average income!
P1 is only capable of cheating/treating the people of Malaysia, not globally!
No 1 in what? Jaguh kampung? Just remove the protectionism and see who’s the winner please!
Reclaim market leader – this must be a JOKE.
This group of jaguh kampong.. how can they still make this kind statement.. with substandard kind of quality and 80s kind of design me personally are damn upset with the products!
Do something proton.. do something that really make us feel proud.. don’t give us SV as that’s what suppose to do done in the first place.
Ok, you want it to be designed like an alien spaceship right? Then only you will buy it kekeke
Because of the protection of national car. Our people need to pay extra car taxes. Proton and Perodua can survive in M’sia only, when go out to Foreign country sure will bankrupt. Hidup BN cronies! Mati Rakyat!….This is what BN slogan.
Enough with crap. Even if without taxes, Proton and Perodua will end up much cheaper than non national cars. They too have to pay the hefty taxes which without it, Saga will cost less than 30k.
they don’t have to pay hefty tax. they’re local. they got huge discounts from G over the 85% excise duty.
it’s not a level playing field. they even get hundreds of million in form of grants.
Rate is not the same but they also pay excise duties, import and sales tax.
And why wouldn’t you want Proton to exist? Proton creates jobs and stimulate our local economy, not to mention getting our engineers some expertise. Those grants are for those activities.
Don’t be ignorant. Because of Proton, all the foreign automotive companies have gone to Thailand (hence the name Detroit of the East)and this has created a world class Tier 1,2 &3 supplier base that our Malaysian crony based vendors here will never ever match. We lost out on all of these because of Proton.
No such high taxes for assembled cars that are meant to be exported but imported cars.
85%?..all proton car duty is 75% n below coz all r below 1800cc(excluding inspira 2.0)…from wat mai release their tax could be between 40-50% (maybe can go to zero % due to VA activity from revised nap)
For me, this is like DejaVu. How people argue here is exactly how Proton people argue amongst themselves, argue with suppliers and not getting any problems solved at all.
Nobody is giving ideas, suggestions nor constructive argument. Plus top management doesn’t listen to their people and is not open minded to suggestions or new ideas.
The same mindset of people arguing here is exactly the same mindset of people in this company. So the rootcause why it cannot improve is because of the Malaysian mindset sad to say. This has to change for betterment of the country and Proton.
Oh give me a break…Many sectors in the economy are protected. Is your housing loan payments too high? Do you think local banks like public bank can make billions of profit if foreign banks can come and freely open branches? Why do i have to pay so much to watch BPL matches? Why cant foreign sattelite tv providers can come to malaysia to provide some competition and lower charges? I paid a lot for a root canal last month. Why are our dentists protected? Let doctors from india come in and they’ll charge me RM 30!!
well said
well said bro!!
Since Proton is entering compact/subcompact market with the hatchback models, why not Perodua also comes up with Sedan models to compete with Proton? Then only fair.
Even indons and banglas in msia use myvi liao.
If perodua comes out with sedan, proton bungkus la…
Today proton is kroni, after that proton is nomoney..
There you go Perodua. We dare you to come up with a sedan………… on your own. Ada beran???
klau nak fight sgt fight lah dgn global brand cam toyota honda ataupun hyundai kia…fight antara brand sama negara buat pa?
By which you mean rebadge a current small sedan from Daihatsu, right?
or rebadge a Mitsubishi Lancer
Fair comment.
Inspira was initially meant to be a platform sharing exercise but Proton didn’t want to spend the money and Mitsubishi went ahead and made the Lancer. Later, Proton decided to renew the deal and simply rebadge the car, with some suspension work.
Anyway, at least Proton has made an effort at making a home-grown car, (Gen.2, Waja, Satria Neo, Savvy, Saga, Persona, Exora, Preve) compared to Perodua which is content to rest on its laurels by simply rebadging Daihatsu cars.
I mean, if you are not happy that Proton is rebadging cars, you should be equally unhappy with Perodua, whose entire stable consists of rebadged cars, some of them CBU units from Japan (Perodua Nautica).
If the home grown car was good, we would be damn proud. But the home grown cars are crap to begin with. These so called home grown cars (on which foreign consultants did 70% of the work in the first place), were created to feed the crony vendors (who needed to make quick profits). As a result we the consumers are stuck with lousy quality home grown cars so that crony vendors could get richer. What is there to be proud of???
Well, I cant help but feel that Proton simply had to make “an effort at making a home-grown car”, given the amount of taxpayers’ money that was poured into their so-called “R&D”. I mean, can you imagine how bad they would look if they simply came up with an entire stable consists of rebadged cars?
BTW who is to say rebadge is a bad thing? Daihatsu has a substantial stake in Perodua. Doesn’t surprise me to see that Perodua heavily leverages Daihatsu expertise.
Lousy quality is lame old story la, sudah basi one. The latest news is that cerato has 6 airbags, 100k. Are city and vios safe that much at similar prices?
Dude, you living up to your username with that comparison
So you don’t have any points to make now? Lousy basher.
Pot calling the kettle black. Your username already bash everyone to begin with. I don’t hate Proton. As a Proton user, I have been hoping for improvements from Proton for many years now. We started seeing improvements during DSZ’s time. His team from P2 were making good changes to the culture within Proton. But all of that is gone now since DSZ left. Things are getting worse and Proton is going back to square one. What’s the point of hoping that Proton will improve when they don’t want to listen to the consumer.
Just close the company and open up the automotive market for the good of the Rakyat.
Threaded comments don’t seem to work well here.
@Dru-Zod:
Anyway, yes, I agree that the home-grown cars are crap (Gen.2 up till Savvy) but the current generation are decent but not amazing. Preve is a pretty good effort.
I don’t know about the vendor quality issue as I’m not a Proton insider. I sincerely want Proton to get better though and Preve hits that mark for me, except for four things:
1. Number of airbags;
2. Interior fit and finish;
3. That push-start button without smart entry; and
4. That crappy head-unit.
All easily fixable.
Also, you seem to know some inner workings of Proton. Care to share some insight?
@bing bing:
Well, your comment implies that it’s bad that Proton rebadged the Lancer, despite Perodua doing the same thing for their entire stable. It wasn’t a surprise that Proton rebadged Lancer either, that segment was never Proton’s strength and Mitsubishi has a very close relationship with Proton.
Insider? LOL or just a pathetic blind basher
Sell off your Proton lah, then maybe not so tension until call people funny names
a myvi sedan or alza sedan wud be nice … hehehe
Will people sit 2 miles high in the sky to drive them? And these cars will have a centre of gravity equivalent to a Savvy’s height. XD
becvause P2 is not a OEM. they only assemble and can not do anything without the Daihatsu permission. proton on the other hand is OEM and are their own boss.
So what to be an own boss just for jaguh kampung?
What is so proud of losing billions?
Who the hell is paying for it? Funny!
reduce the car prices and open fair trade in Malaysia. Than we’ll see if you can reclaim market leader. that time you and Perodua can close shop or join Naza sell APs.
As what the writer said – Sit back, relax, and enjoy the show
“Proton is working very hard…”, my ass.
They’re sleeping in there. This is true, quoted by an internal source.
reclaim number 1 spot? by using politic influence or government protection? i just don’t think they can do it by using their product.
If they are already market leader then there is no need for NAP la.
Stop using my income tax money for yr so called r&d lah. Give us a reliable car with global fair pricing.
fair is a very subjective terms
Although not driving a Proton but i personally thinks that it is a good news. No matter what, Proton still our country car maker and it deserve another chances to prove it. Lets see what they will improve in next two years. Lets hope that Proton able to make it =)
Market leader position, why not quality leader position?
Ada hati nak jadi no 1. You should worry on how not to lose out you no 2 spot to Toyota first.
1st of all, make sure all Malaysia politician drive Proton.
In a nasty way, I would love to hear that they close shop in next 2 years! If they can’t perform after almost 30 years, just shut them down.
Give you one more chance, if you can perform, I will support you too!
Once again, typical syok sendiri statements from the management of this company. Why don’t they just do the hard work and let the result speak for themselves.
Also, isn’t Proton no.3 now in the market behind Toyota?
Sick with your rubbish comments. If you hate proton, why don’t you just buy merc or bmw? If you cannot afford one please keep your kapchai good.
My kapchai quality level is much better than your Proton.
If you think so then you don’t even need a car!
ok. Because you say so, I won’t buy a car hahahaha
Proton champions itself as market of valued cars..Unfortunately they never make a wave in Saudi, a land where there is no tax and cheap petrol! I think the dealer folded already. Seen few Gen 2 and Waja running around and maybe 1 Persona so far. This is their problem, want to claim global market share. What they did was to just change the steering wheel to left side and thought the can sell it the left hand drive countries. They failed big in Germany/Europe and in ME too. Even in UK once their biggest oversea market they are trailing.
What a joke for a Jaguh Kampung.
Another NEP product trying to be no:1 in malaysia.
What so proud to be no:1 in malaysia where you have been protected from the car tax. Your no:1 spot is not based on merit that you earn.
This apply to those good malay graduates where they will be labled as a NEP product if they success in their career.
They can shout to be no :1 but the NEP will tarnish those good innocent Malay.
NEP is a product that menghina the good Malay throughout their life.
Then tell that to Japanese, Koreans and Chinese. They DO have some sort of local automotive protections.
Tell that to Proton that Japs, Korean also protected but give world class design quality cars. So far Proton only become global joke lah
They made cars looonnggg before proton, no wonder they have better quality.
But their cars are doing well overseas,esp in Msia…not to mention their eletronic gadgets.
And all this while I thought that Proton
has evolved and with the emergence of DRB
they would be challenging the world leaders
but sadly they prefer to challenge for the
Juara Kampung title all over again.
.Sigh!!
Wow you must have got international title. What title you have, the cheapest talker? LOL
i think it is a good step to start from bottom, conquer first in this home country, then proceed to asean and towards international.
How confident is your statement,when they failed to do in 40 years,they wanna do it in 2 years?Do you think it’s possible?
who started in 40 years? in 2 years, they will be coming up with 4 new models; preve HB this year, new B-segment and Satria in 2014, Saga replacement in 2015.
Dream….dream, dream, dream…
when I want you, in my arm I need you so,
all I have to do is dreammm….
This sandiwara is to get more money.
First announce something like wanting and will be working hard to be no1
Then go to the government coffers and ask for x billion of ringgit to enable them to be no1
When money approved and released, think of a way to slice the pie for themselves and forget about being no1
If any company is serious in stepping up their game, they’ll take inspiration from Nissan by replacing the lousy head of the company with some one with a calibre to weed out cancerous top management individuals in the company.
i really like your comment, then after five years they’ll will ask gomen to bail out/take over the business or they will close down and lots of retrench staff will be angry with gomen…which will the gomen choose??
most of giving negative comments here actually drive proton car. coz they experience it.
LOL….
Oh so you carry a survey to know all those things? For your PHD issit?
The same old “… I’m confident …” statements that DRB gave before they sold off Proton shares last time. The same old promises that mahathir gave decades ago. This repeat & repeat again until one day … they admit: ok, we sucks, pls help us to improve.
It would have been good if they say take the world by storm in 2 years. Tak habis habis only want to claim pole position in the country after so many years. Champion kat kampung sendiri. Susah sangat ke kalau nak dapat orang yang calibre. Jangan tidur lagi, nanti Proton tak bangun.
Proton should be sold off for 7 billion and the money can spent to built MRT in Penang and Johor.
I can’t see how proton can achieve target with current poor quality car been sold to rakyat
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
Their most important client, the MALAYSIAN GOVERNMENT had CONFIRMED they’ll switch Perdana V6 to Honda Accord. Just shows the confidence they have in their own product, eh?
Tok kok sing song is DRB’s best skill aa? Pathetic. All they care about is money, but that’s the last thing they’ll get. FACT.
“No1 jaguh kampung” title will cost them dearly. Msia’s market is too unique, winning strategy here won’t work anywhere else.
In other words, Proton won’t give a flying fucuk to improve themselves against other global carmakers. And they’ll get away with it bcuz BN will allow it.
Guess we can see Saga FLX for next 25 years, like its predecessor.
Perdana V6 is too old, they only use the Accord platform to save money. Skin / exterior looking is different IMHO.
All the best, Proton.
Although I will never buy your car, in the foreseeable future, I bid you good luck in your future undertakings. Maybe Thailand is “Detroit of the East”, at least Malaysians can actually design and build cars. Unlike the Thais who mostly knows to assemble it.
Market leader in making Milo tin cars?
Yes milo tin with 5 stars aussie ncap if you are retard enough.
NO 1 at boasting that they will be No 1…year after year without fail, they keep boasting the same thing, that they r going to be world-class company conquer the world auto market or annoucing ENDLESS “strategic alliances or tie ups”…NEXT YEAR they ANNOUNCE the SAME THING!!!
Just Another Dude:
Maybe Thailand is “Detroit of the East”, at least Malaysians can actually design and build cars.
****yeah, design cars that fell apart even when new
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Unlike the Thais who mostly knows to assemble
****at least they assemble QUALITY cars that WORKS
give some proof that the car fell apart even when new.
WHATT!!! Wanna be No 1 aa… Ive already claimed 8 warranty item from you for my EXORA and you still owe me the “EXTRAORDINARY HANDLING” thing that cause that %#&&* sway to the left all the time. 14 times do alignment olso cannot solve. Change parts olso cannot solve. Still dreaming to be no 1….!!!
Yahh… You’ll be no 1 to be summoned under Akta Perihal Dagangan soon….
Dato Lokman… Please mark my word….
Reclaim market leader in kampung only mah. Ha ha…
We never have a mentality to be the world player…shake head…
to be no 1, make your price reasonable, design better, quality better, don’t always rebadge, after sales service better, parts quality better. ok from up to down also shit now, need to improve everything so you better disappear , cos proton just a crap!
Aiyaa… stop comparing Proton and Perodua to the likes of Korean or Japanese car.. Korean sold more than 7.7 million cars globally with over 1.4 million sold locally in 2011…
Total Malaysian cars sales for all brands like Proton, Perodua, Honda, Toyota etc is just like over 600K for 2013…
Simple logic, more sales, more money, better R&D, better cars…
Supposedly the export proton cars are of better quality and features right?
So, imho, if P1 really serious and honest, please make proton cars for local market as good as or better than export market!!!
Dreaming la Proton.. After conning buyers and rubbish-like support when they claim for warranty and not forgetting low quality but expensive original parts and labours.. now who want to support you?? Only ‘budak baru nak naik’ will buy your cheats..
Yes Proton certainly can… by setting its own game rules and limits the competition… to reclaim its title of JUARA KAMPUNG
Unlike other brand, I see that people is unable to associate anything with Proton car, either prestige, image, design, quality or technology. Only thing I can think of is ‘affordability’. There must be something wrong..
National car maker should serve citizen needs. That is why affordability a big focus. done researching other national car maker pricing and strategies? Please do. If you love expensive car, buy proton in singapore then. persona is just rm350k only.
got persona meh? but Saga only RM260k hokaokan!
C’mon proton.. i thought u wanna be global big player? but why your target only for local?. this is shameful.
ok la proton we give you chance.. make sure you price your car according to its quality la kaniniah.. in other word worth every RM! makan pisang lagi lalalala