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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / General Car Topics / May 2006Proton
I am on a business trip in Malaysia. I have a sweet rental car. The brand is Proton. Apparently its a local brand of an import, but more likely a domestic vehicle here. I googled some stuff, but didn't really get much info. Do any of you know much about this car? DO they export them? Can you buy them with the steering wheel on the other side? Are they reliable? Are they expensive? If their corporate website is any guide of reliability, this thing will leave me stranded fairly quickly. It has a very nice leather interior, great layout of gauges and such, no performance hiccups. Feels solid and sturdy to drive... Sorry to reply to my own message. I have found out a lot of uniteresting information about this car company. One of the main things that troubles me is the transmission difficulties that drivers have complained about. "Gearbock no good after two year," was a quote from one taxi driver I queried. >I am on a business trip in Malaysia. I have a sweet rental car. The brand >is Proton. Apparently its a local brand of an import, but more likely a [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > It has a very nice leather interior, great layout of gauges and such, no > performance hiccups. Feels solid and sturdy to drive... Hi, Proton is the one of the two local Malaysian manufacturers. The other being Perodua which is indirectly controlled by Toyota. Proton used to only make Mitsubishi clones (Lancer and Eterna) but now they are also making Malaysian designed cars (Waja, Savvy). The engines are quite reliable but they seem to have transmission problems especially on the bigger auto models. Most of their models also suffer from minor problems like power window malfunction and other electrical problems and this had caused many Malaysians to boycott the cars - if they can afford to buy other makes. The taxes for imported cars in Malaysia are quite high but this is slowly being reduced partly due to the public anger with Proton and partly due to WTO rules. Now Proton is under a new management and they are now looking for foreign partners to survive in the tough auto market. BTW Proton owns Lotus cars of UK :-) > Sorry to reply to my own message. I have found out a lot of uniteresting > information about this car company. One of the main things that troubles me [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >>It has a very nice leather interior, great layout of gauges and such, no >>performance hiccups. Feels solid and sturdy to drive... The BBC program mentioned Proton in a crash-test context. See the video here: http://www.youtube.com/results?search=top+gear+crash+test+proton&search_type=sea rch_videos&search=Search Draw your own conclusions... "GAZ" <...@...yahoo.com> mysterios ( Mr know all ) get no info fr me > "GAZ" <...@...yahoo.com> > > mysterios ( Mr know all ) get no info fr me Well, thank you very much, Sweetheart. |
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