My sister bought a Wira 3 years ago. One of the day when I took this car for service, the foreman told me, this car is exhausting motor oil (oil level dropped, however there is no leakage). He even firmly stressed that based on his experience of this local design engine, all Proton Wira 2001 made (and onwards) has this problem.
Over the last 3 years, I drove quite a few Wira cars, the pick up performance great deteoriated after 10,000km mileage.
Proton has been in Malaysia market for at least 20 years. We acquired Lotus for more than 10 years, and yet there is no improvement in the local design. Even the new Gen 2 car is having very high fuel consumption. What benefits that we paid for the Lotus technology??? Same goes to the Europe motorcycle company, we bail out the company at 1 dollar??? Why such decision was made without anyone being charge??? These are public fund, someone got to hold responsible for the unscrupulous act.
Can anyone comments, why, we, Malaysian always claims to be "BOLEH" and did not really show that we are really BOLEH?
Does the protectism really help Malaysia to be a "BOLEH" country?
Lousy, strongly not recommended!
In my opinion, we should scrapped the Proton entity, we should explore more high end cars to be locally assemblied to supply the Asia region. The same analogy as what Thailand is doing now.
I Agreed with you experience. "BOLEH" means can build an engine, but no quality. "BOLEH" for "QUANTITY" but not "QUALITY".
Totally agreed... producing rubbish for so many years and cost the life of thousands with such poor quality, wasting billions of public money, paying salaries to people who just don't care about the public and government, giving Malaysia a bad name in the world car industry.. totally destroying our imaged... put down the spirit of Malaysia Boleh!!!
PROTON!! YOU REALLY LET US DOWN TIME AFTER TIME, IT GOES EVEN WORST AS YEARS GOES BY... MAYBE CONSIDERED SELLING IT TO MITSUBISHI JAPAN TO ACQUIRE IT, but I'm DOUBTFUL WHETHER THEY WANT IT OR NOT?...
The problem with Proton is it's the idea and the darling of our former dearest PM, and until now we are forced to inherit the mistakes he made, in the name of national pride. Nobody should buy a substandard car only due to patriotism alone.
The way Proton manages itself seems nearly a joke, and I'm glad tengku mahaleel is out of the picture. The disposal of Augusta at 1 euro wasn't a mistake, it was the only way out. It was the acquisition of Augusta in the first place which was the big mistake. Anybody who has eyes will see that the whole mess can be traced back to Tun himself...
Let's show Proton that our buying power goes to other higher quality car makers. If it forces Proton to improve then that would be the most patriotic thing we can do...
I would just like to say that I have owned a 1996 Proton 1.3 Mpi for nearly 3 years. From what I've read, the quality of the exported Protons is far better than those sold in Malaysia. The only problem I've had with the car was a leaking radiator which I fixed myself. In the U. K where I live, the dealers are poor and very few and far between. The quality of the car is adequate, but its very dated... very little rust and the Mitsubishi engine is very reliable. Overall I'm happy with it.I'm sorry to hear that you people have so many problems with yours...it's a shame because they could be a very good car for a basic runaround!It seems that politics is rearing its ugly head...like I say,its a pity. Cheers:-)
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