Good Morning, Salam to all! Entri kali ini bermula dengan satu petikan komen di blog automotif terkenal Malaysia iaitu Paultan.org. Ini ada antara komen yang muncul di entri Paultan mengenai gambaran Waja Replacement Model hasil Theopilus Chin seperti yang aku ceritakan dalam entri sebelum ini. Lebih-lebih lagi apabila Buletin Utama TV3 semalam, melaporkan tentang kehadiran kereta testing model itu di jalan raya Malaysia.
Antara komen-komen "bernas" terpilih :
i bet Proton will do what they are pro – ruin the good thing
ruin the engine, ruin the interior & exterior design, ruin the safety, ruin the features, ruin the price, and eventually, screwed up Malaysian.
25 years Proton been good at ruin things, 2010 won’t be the exception, not even Mitsubishi offered such good platform, architecture & engineering.
shame on you, Proton. - LauCN
why can’t proton design their own car. i mean.. seriously .. dun tell me proton holdings have not even a single person in their company to say : hey, we are bigger in sales compared to Mitsubishi.. time for us to beat them..
dont you proton holdings think that as a driver, we don’t want a car to be similar lookings to a lancer yet less powerful and equipped ?????????????
came on… 25 years man!!! and you are still buying design… seriously ????????? - Noob
Ramai yang menggunakan kesempatan sambutan 25 tahun PROTON sebagai asas komentar mereka. Apakah kehadiran model ini disebabkan PROTON ketandusan designers dan idea untuk model baru? Berdasarkan laporan berita, dan maklumat di blog-blog automotif yang aku baca projek ini adalah satu kerjasama antara PROTON dan Mitsubishi, dan model ini adalah salah satu "badge engineering". Ia merupakan satu automotive term yang biasa digunakan oleh banyak syarikat automotif antarabangsa seperti Volkswagen, FORD, Mazda, Toyota, Subaru dan banyak lagi termasuklah Perodua.
Dipetik dari laman wikipedia.org
Badge engineering is a term that describes the rebadging (that is, the replacement of the branding trademark) of one product (especially cars) as another. Due to the high cost of designing and engineering a totally new model, or establishing a new brand (which may take many years to gain acceptance), it is often more cost-effective to rebadge a single product multiple times.


