UPDATE : Sumber info ini dari orientaldaily.com.my
” (Kuala Lumpur 26 Jun) Proton announced that the company will stop producing Savvy, which has been in the market for almost 7 years, claiming that the compact car is tarnishing the company’s image due to the extremely poor quality.
Proton’s Managing Director Dato’ Seri Syed Zainal described Proton Waja 1.8L and Savvy 1.2L produced from the collaboration with Renault as a painful lesson.Launched in Jun 2005, Savvy is to take over the Tiara as Proton’s new compact car model.Savvy’s quality tarnishing company’s image.
Syed Zainal admits that Proton’s car have quality problems, the decision to retire Savvy is because SAvvy’s quality is tarnishing Proton’s image. Syed Zainal told reporters when attending 2011 GLC Open Day that retiring Savvy does not mean the model is defective, Proton also will not recall all the Savvy that are sold.
Savvy is using the Renault made D4F engine while Waja 1.8L is using F4P engine but owners of the vehicle has been complaining about the problems that had, today a participants inquire Syed Zainal about the complains, hoping that Proton pay attention to the issue.
Customer complains are decreasing
Syed Zainal pointed out that Proton is not a flawless company but the complains they received for the past 5 years has been decreasing. He stated that when some Malaysians criticize the quality of Proton cars, it is all based on their own personal impression and rumors, some of them never even drive a Proton before.He mentioned that Proton cannot be blamed for the problems with Proton cars because all the parts are supplied by suppliers.
Please do not put the blame on Proton, Proton makes 700 cars per day, that’s 1 car every 98 seconds, we do not have the time to check on Proton parts.” Earlier, Syed Zainal Abidin in his speech mentioned that Proton will emphasise on “Cheap selling price with cheap maintenance parts” principle to prevent having problems with expensive parts for cheap cars.
He stated that proton has been planning to move the company’s market to foreign country. The target is to increase Proton’s foreign market share to 72% by 2016. Currently foreign and local market are equal.”UAE, India, China and Middle Eastern country is our targeted foreign market.” Syed Zainal stated that Proton is facing a shortage of qualified personnels instead of planning and funding when moving to foreign market.”
Nampaknya kalau betul la perkara ni bertambah “buruk” la imej & nama Proton lepas ni. Sampai ada yang buka fb punya akaun untuk menghentam Proton. Adakah benar penjelasan dari DSSZ ” Proton tak ada masa nak periksa kualiti part sebab Proton keluarkan 900 unit kereta sehari, seunit kereta dalam masa 98 saat”. Kalau nak banding dengan syarikat lagi besar yang keluarkan berjuta unit kereta setahun, takkan la Proton akan lepas pandang perkara ni. Masalah Proton sebenarnya bukan dari pemasangan/kilang sangat, tapi kualiti part yang dibekalkan oleh vendor yang tidak berkualiti & menepati piawaian yang sepatutnya yang jejaskan imej Proton. Harap Proton “bakul sampahkan” sahaja vendor yang tak bertanggungjawab ni walaupun ada kaitan dengan ahli politik. Nak buat pe simpan lagi, cari la sumber lain. Kalau nak ikutkan Savvy ni dulu masa mula launch ada TUV punya pengiktirafan.
Harap pihak Proton bagi penjelasan yang sebenarnya supaya pemilik Savvy yang sedia ada tidak menerima nasib yang tak sepatutnya, “resale value” akan makin teruk jika benar perkara ini. Kalau Proton nak bela hak pemilik Savvy jika betul perkara ni berlaku ialah dengan memberi “rebate” sekurang2nya RM5,000.00 untuk beli Proton yang baru. Tapi jangan pilih model, seeloknya bagi model baru macam Persona R. Baru la sejuk sikit hati pemilik Savvy termasuk diri saya sendiri. Proton jangan la pulak lepas tangan macam tu je pulak, memang nak kena la jawabnya. Bukan silap pembeli tapi silap Proton sendiri buat benda tak fikir macam MD yang dulu. Fikirkanlah cadangan saya tu dengan sebijak2nya sebab pemilik Savvy ni tak ramai mana pun. Nak rugi bakal pembeli ke nak jaga hati pembeli, pilih salah satu je talian hayat ni.
* Saya amat berharap pihak Proton tampil untuk membuat penjelasan yang sebenarnya agar perkara ini diselesaikan dengan segera. Sila emailkan kepada saya campro_mania@yahoo.com penjelasan dari pihak anda. Kerjasama anda amatlah dihargai, terima kasih.
