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  Proton and Mahindra strategic alliance

  15 April 2006 / 33 comments

  Business Times reports that Mahindra & Mahindra is in talks with Proton for a possible manufacturing and marketing alliance which may involve a strategic stake transfer. Rumours are that Proton would assemble the Mahindra Scorpio […]

   

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  Proton vendors need to buck up

  14 April 2006 / 54 comments

  The Proton Vendors Association (PVA) are moving towards consolidation as part of efforts to increase competitiveness, increase economies of scale and reduce wastage as well as optimum utilisation of investment. Currently over 260 vendors supply […]

   

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  Satria Replacement Model and Proton Savvy left hand drive

  12 April 2006 / 51 comments

  Reader Mun Wai sent in these spyshots of a convoy of Proton vehicles. There were a few Proton Savvys escorting a Proton Satria Replacement Model. From this photo, you can have a look at the […]

   

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  Proton’s Quality Control Campaign

  8 April 2006 / 93 comments

  One of the main peeves on Proton cars have been it’s notorious quality control, as evident from a previous post I made on how to fix the Proton Gen2’s door latch. The problem with the […]

   

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  Proton to announce strategic tie-up by end April

  5 April 2006 / 56 comments

  Proton Holdings Bhd MD Syed Zainal Abidin Syed Mohamed Tahir said today that the company is in talks with a foreign company for a strategic core alliance, which might involve selling a stake to the […]

   

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  Corruption in the car industry

  31 March 2006 / 20 comments

  6 custom officers are being investigated for assisting car dealers to import vehicles using cloned or fake Approved Permits. Two are assistant directors while the other 4 are rank-and-file officers. These guys earn as much […]

   

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  Proton and Chery discussing two-way partnership

  30 March 2006 / 24 comments

  More developments on Malaysia-China automotive industry relations. Previously there were rumours on Proton’s involvement with Jinhua Youngman and Chery. Jinhua Youngman was believed to have entered a deal with Proton to assemble Proton CKD kits […]

   

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  NAP After-Effects: Proton reduces prices further

  30 March 2006 / 16 comments

  Proton Edar Sdn Bhd and EON have published new price lists for Proton cars, lower than the prices previously announced. It’s still not much, with the model with the largest price cut being 7% for […]

   

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  NAP After-Effects: New prices for Proton cars

  28 March 2006 / 28 comments

  Proton has posted new prices of Proton cars on their website. This is for Proton Edar. EON managing director Datuk Syed Hisham Syed Wazir said it has yet to receive an updated price list for […]

   

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  Proton Savvy Zerokit by Race Rally Research

  26 March 2006 / 41 comments

  Proton has an R3 Zerokit upgrade for the Proton Savvy for those not satisfied with the zippy little thing in stock form. You can either purchase the Proton Savvy R3 Zerokit with the kit preinstalled […]

   

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  Updates on Satria Replacement Model from Proton Cars Australia

  26 March 2006 / 16 comments

  GoAuto carries some news on Proton’s model timeline for the Australian market, which could give us a guideline on when models will be released on our own shores. Probably take off a few months to […]

   

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  Race Rally Research Australia

  26 March 2006 / 4 comments

  Proton Cars Australia intends to set up their own Race Rally Research divison within seven months, based on the Lotus Sport franchise. Proton Cars Australia MD John Startari said Proton Cars Australia’s Race Rally Research […]

   

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  Khazanah may take Proton private

  25 March 2006 / 11 comments

  Khazanah Nasional Bhd may be considering taking some government-linked companies private to help with their restructuring process in order to achieve KPIs. Earlier this week, K&N Kenanga had already speculated taking Proton private may be […]

   

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  NAP After-Effects: Proton to reduce prices

  24 March 2006 / 25 comments

  Proton M.D. Syed Zainal Abidin Syed Mohamed Tahir told press today that Proton would be reducing the prices of it’s cars across the board by 2% to 5%. Proton also aims to increase it’s local […]

   

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  Satria Replacement Model in April?

  24 March 2006 / 32 comments

  A report by New Straits Times says Proton expects to launch a new model in April. This could most likely be the SRM as I don’t think there’s any possibility of a Perdana based on […]

   

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