Perodua use 300 million to create a new bumper and styling? How on earth they can spend lot of millions to basically copy a car from Daihatsu?

Proton is building up the car from scratch so it was understandable.

Please enlighten me

Easy profit for sure. Take one Daihatsu model and then change some styling, walla new car!

Proton actually can take the easy route too by following their old model of rebadging Mitsubishi cars and earn easy profit like Perodua but the gov think that they can do better and create a new car from scratch.

So Proton tell back the gov, if you want me to stop rebadging and create a new car from scratch, it takes a lot of money, so you give me the money lah!

So if you want to play blame game, you blame the wrong party.

If you want to make the car distinct than the original you need to spent money to do new moulding and tooling not to mention new vendor for new parts

This will eat a lot of their profit margin and when they post reduce profit and cant make money people like you will make noise too