In the newest and latest umbrage to local carmaker Proton and not to mention the tax paying citizens of Terengganu, the state government has forgone their support for the Proton Perdana V6’s and instead has selected to purchase 14 Mercedes’s E200 Kompressor from the foreign car manufacturer for the use of their state exco’s.
The MB of Terengganu – in a knee-jerk attempt to explain the decision – has indirectly stated the reasons for the switch being that there are various issues that have plagued Proton cars especially in the area of the maintenance costs.
He also has the nerve to cite better resale value for the Mercedes as a plus point for the Mercedes purchase. This of course is pretty much bullshit as we Malaysian all know that the state official cars are mostly sold off for peanuts to these politicians who basically end up taking us all for the ride!
Now I am not even going to ask the question why would the exco’s of Terengganu require such expensive cars the likes of Mercedes when in reality the current standing of the state of Terrengganu is as the 2nd poorest state in the country.
Instead I would like to pose this scenario to the people of Terengganu:
Imagine being a low income citizen struggling to survive in these harsh times, who has the misfortune to see their duly appointed politician making their rounds among the citizens in their luxury Mercedes!
Turun Ke Padang has never been so stylish as it will be in Terrengganu.
Furthermore this issues has highligted another glaring sign of the lack of power of our current PM and his DPM holds. Instead of directly telling off their subbordinates in Terrengganu to stick to Proton as would have been the case previously, Najib has instead announced that the ‘cabinet’ will meet and discuss the issue. I mean with things like an ailing economy of their books one would think that the cabinet has better matters to talk about.
