Hezeri Samsuri, the local motor journalist blame Proton for nautica's flop haha. Can't find the video anymore, but i sempat watch he was driving in aruz, then wanna story about nautica.

Dia claim Proton sakit hati, why national car go fully import from Japan, take shortcut ini P2. P2 kononnya gentleman, so they stopped selling because of it.

Kepala bapak kau. Nautica rm90k, even Rush was cheaper, and Rush had 7 seats while Nautica 5 seater. Nautica only have CBU Japan as its selling point, else Rush cheaper and bigger, who wanna buy P2? Lepas tu buat2 kata kononnya Nautica actually selling well, dalam bandar jualan ada, wanna deny the wiki entry about it sold less than 500 units.

Kononnya all these reasons Nautica failed are fake news spread by keyboard warriors paid by tongsan, while he's telling the truth and not paid at all. Dasar pembohong punya ini HS.

Dengki la tu kat Proton that X70 is selling quite well. Dah la he made defamatory claims against Proton a lot lately. One day i hope Geely may feel it is serious enough to sue his pants off.

Indeed, even rarer than Ferrari.
Lately he posts things like really wanna cari pasal with Proton/Geely. Some of his claims so bizarre, some so blatantly racist. Frankly Geely could sue i feel, but they ain't got time for this shit, busy trying to bring Proton back in black.

Recently he claimed X70 don't pay CBU tax, haha. X70 deliver 1,000 units kononnya tak heran, tapi tengok dia up Aruz deliver 1k+ units in 1 day bukan main.

He super fanboy of that Madani guy of MAI, now MARII. That Madani aa, everytime pauline tan news about, sure make stupid statement ala Maslan.

I notice MAI initiatives kinda pro-P2. MAI actually got design studio, kononnya can be used to train people to then be hired by carmakers, but as i see it, it looks like only P2 on board it, it looks to me more like P2 use govt to save their cost and gain skilled workforce.

Then they got like vendor program, something about bringing vendor standard up to global standards. A notable activity they done before was visit Japan, signed some MoU, but also only P2 vendors and management team seen. This was before Geely bought Proton, so i don't think it was as inclusive as they tried to portray the program to be.

MAI i think was kinda instrumental to formation of MIROS, the body responsible for Asean NCAP. I remember P2 sponsored crash test dummies and other stuffs worth millions, since then P2 crash test result become better, yet in real world crash, u know i know la.

Now Proton under Geely, i suppose they do things their own way now. Even X70 launch event, Pauline Tan not the official livestreamer or event organiser. HS's racist nature become more apparent since. From that post also u can see he got beef about them bringing their people in.

Truth is, Proton become more MNC rather than tongsan. In an interview with Dr Li, he said they got many international key people from Japan, Germany, etc, but HS seems to single out tongsan, and keep attacking them from time to time, claim tongsan hire and pay cybertroopers la, what a jerk.

I vividly remember Nautica was rm89,900, before discount which sure had to be given, else can never clear stock.

Rush was the 7-seater version of Nautica. It was CKD too so that's why despite Toyota badge, still cheaper than CBU Nautica. They share same ladder frame platform.

Today still the same scenario, Rush, Aruz and Avanza share same platform (not sure if all-new or same as back then), RWD layout, same engine and gearbox.

Aruz is necessary for P2 cuz they wanna replace Alza, it's been 10 years already. Problem is toyota/daihatsu completely stopped making Passo sette (base for alza), so they gotta turn to Rush as a modern 7-seater offering.

Aruz is just SUV in style, but zero substance. It won't do any off road like most other pussy SUVs, unlike Range Rover, Pajero, Landcruiser etc.

People compare Aruz and X70 cuz mainly they're both SUVs, but Aruz is a budget, no-frill 7-seater family car. X70 is a luxury-killer cruiser, kinda like OnePlus and their 'flagship killer' product. X70 costs way more to buy and run, but it's still a steal for what it's offering vs their rival. True, they both gun different market, and doing well on their own.