Of Domestic Production

Since the production of its first Saga in the 80' consumers have been complaining about the quality of the product. All models in its production have problems and it is no alien if we hear Malaysians says, " Biasalah proton," which means that if the car do not create problems after a few years then the car must be a chicken in a sheeps skin. 

When Terengganu's BN government opt for Mercedes to replaced Proton Perdana for their EXCOs it means that the signal has been sent to Proton. The reason to replace the Perdana's for imported cars is due to high maintenance cost. That is government property and definitely it is to be serviced by government appointed workshops to maintain the car.  Payment from government's coffer is usually late and therefore workshops usually mark up the price which equals to high cost to compensate. But from unidentified sources and words on the streets is that the maintenance cost is high due to "value added"  services. What is value added? The maintenance isnot only for the official car but at times unclusive of personal individual's car and the cost is tabulated into the official cars maintenance cost. So the actual cost of maintaining the official car might just be an artificially created cost. 

Another factor for increasing maintenance cost is due to age of the car. The older the car gets, definitely the maintenance cost will increase. Af far asI know government properties has to audited after five years (if I am not mistaken) and can be replaced if found defective. 

Using the same reason as Terengganu, Penang and Selangor also decided to change their Perdanas for a better quality car. They choose Toyota Camry instead of Mercedes. Of course it is cheaper. But Penang and Selangor being Pakatan controlled states definitelt it will get more attention because whatever good things Pakatan government do is always wrong. 

Latest report from Malaysian Insiders is 'Selangor opts for Toyota too in another blow to Proton'. With such reports and talks on the streets how many more years isProton going to take to maintain quality. Do we hear much complains from Perodua compared to Proton?