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Club defends the Perdana

Jul 23, 2008
Story Timeline:  77 days

By TEH ENG HOCK and ROYCE CHEAH PETALING JAYA: The Perdana V6 Club (V-Sixers) has come to the defence of the Proton Perdana, saying that it is a good car. V-Sixers secretary Mohd Yazmeen Md Yusof said he was disappointed with what Terengganu Mentri Besar Datuk Ahmad Said had said about the car. On Sunday, Ahmad said the state government had decided to buy 14 Mercedes E200 Kompressor instead of Proton Perdana cars for its state executive councillors as the Perdana cars frequently broke down. “If they think it is difficult to maintain, then how can private Perdana owners survive? How could clubs for the car be formed if it really was that bad?” Mohd Yazmeen said the frequency in which the car had to be sent to the workshop for major repairs depended on the way it was driven. “My eight-year-old car still has the original gearbox... [read full story]                    

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