Saturday, January 19, 2008

The New SAGA Begin

Yesterday Proton reveal the new car model which is hope to be able to help Proton to get a step forward in the market. With the affortable price and new features, it ws hope that it can capture the heart of all Malaysian...The new Proton Saga, the 'rakyat' car. Proton Holdings Bhd Manager, Datuk Syed Zainal Abidin Syed Mohamed Tahir said that the car was a 'Rakyat' as it was built for the rakyat...

The new Saga begin...that was the tagline...bid farewell to the original SAGA and get to the new story of Saga....the tagline seem very meaniful as it mean the new story of begin...what to do, Saga had been in crisis for years and years back where they almost lose the market share from our own citizen...

Whether the new Saga can really help Proton, it was still blur...With so many car model in Malaysia, the people will think twice before placing their order. The only point that Malaysian still choose Proton will be the cheap price and the low interest rate for car loan....This mean that proton now can only target the medium or low income rakyat...Datuk Syed Zainal Abidin Syed Mohamed Tahir added that people with income as low as RM 1300 can easily own this car as it was really affortable...hehe....Are they promoting one house one car campaign like the government use to promote one house one computer...

Malaysia can be said as the country with the most car. We can easily find a family owing 2 to 3 cars in any street in Malaysia...DOn't believe? Malaysia highway can still have traffic jam...wasn't that a good evidence...hehe

However what i really confuse is why they name the Proton BLM as Saga again? The name was't that great or powerful...In Malay, Saga mean a nut...'buah saga' and in english it means Story or Chronicle...not as great as Wira and Waja lolz...hehe...why sould they reuse the same name to replace an old car?

Anyway, here is some photo I grab from paultan.org...if u want to read the full blog of him please visit this link http://paultan.org/archives/2008/01/18/the-new-proton-saga-details-photos-and-test-drive/










1 comment:

Kent 阿健 said...

I actually went to the show room.
The thing is I find that the new Saga is quite spacious. The design looks good to me consider it's a BASE LINE MODEL (that's how the BLM thingy came) that only cost 39k for full spec AT transmission and 37K for Manual Transmission. The only thing that most of the Malaysian are concern about the car is no longer the design cause I believe we do acknowledge that Proton come out with good looking cars nowadays . The part that we concern about is their QC.. Will your power window drop off again? Will the water leak again from your car bonnet? will the engine be "on fire" as in real fire... and many many more.. If proton can improve in term of QC which I hope they do, I think it will not be far for them to make a come back as the No.1 car in the country. Let's hope that this do happen as proton promise that they have taken necessary measure in Quality Assurance. Thus this round the warranty for the car is 5 years.