Thumbs Down! Proton Perdana

Terengganu State Government purchased 14 of this:to replace this
They are spending RM3.43 mil for the Mercedes E200 Kompressor cars for the use of its state executive councillors and senior officials.

Reasons given? Apparently the Proton Perdana needed high costs of maintenance. The Merc(s) are supposed to be more cost efficient and cheaper to maintain in the long run. And the second hand value supposed to be higher. I thought usually the councillors/excos get to buy the cars at a really, really cheap price. Speaks volume about how our own BN politicians think about our own national car, yah?
You just have to read this to get what is implied about the quality of our Proton Perdana.
Opposition government in Penang cancelled the order for RM600000 worth of Proton Perdana too but at least they did not replace the order with other more quality cars.....

So, if the government does not support her own national car, how do you expect the rakyat to believe that our national car is of good quality????