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This time it's Malaysia:
Malaysia lambasts Top Gear host

Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson has come under attack in the Malaysian parliament for labelling one of the country's cars the worst in the world.
The BBC presenter has been filmed attacking the Perodua Kelisa with a sledgehammer before blowing it up.
But minister Abdul Raman Suliman defended the nation's car industry, saying Mr Clarkson was like a football commentator who cannot play football.
He told MPs, Perodua had not received a single complaint from British owners.
He added that the comments were made merely to boost sales of the Top Gear magazine.

'Soulless'
Mr Clarkson has voiced his frustrations with the small three-cylinder model in both magazine articles and on the Top Gear motoring show.
In one article, he said its name was like a disease and suggested it was built in jungles by people who wear leaves for shoes.
And on the show, he described it as "unimaginative junk, with no soul, no flair and no passion".
He then smashed it, hung it from a crane with a one-tonne weight attached, before blowing it up.
Perodua is Malaysia's second national carmaker and began producing small compact models in 1995.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6528087.stm

In case you're wondering what he did:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf3Rw8VW3aE

That is one ugly car. It deserved everything and more.
Here's a hint Malaysia: If you don't want ppl to criticise your cars, make better ones!

Now that's a shit car!

I guess Malaysia wants the honor of manufacturing the Trabant of the 21st century.

Apparently he's never seen a Scion.

Apparently he's never seen a Scion.
I doubt he'd allow himself to, at least without a sledgehammer.

Here's a hint Malaysia: If you don't want ppl to criticise your cars, make better ones!

Long story short, they can't. Proton top level management is run by a schmuck who is well connected to the various ministry's and appears to be more interested in lining his pockets than producing something, oh I don't know, competitive. Heck, IIRC they need tariffs running up to like 400% on foreign cars just to be able to sell it locally.

In other words, Proton is a black hole for taxpayer money.

Maybe they're just mad that Top Gear stole their national auto magazine's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topgear) name. :p

This is newsworthy why? I mean, who doesn't Jeremy Clarkson offend?

Maybe they're just mad that Top Gear stole their national auto magazine's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topgear) name. :p

Pssst : Malayalam should not be confused with Malay, a language spoken in Southeast Asia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayalam

I found it a fully unremarkable car in all ways. I've seen cars that deserve to be blown up more than that one. Although I don't think it's worth poluting the environment over.

Malaysia is making cars?

You learn something new every day...

I found it a fully unremarkable car in all ways. I've seen cars that deserve to be blown up more than that one. Although I don't think it's worth poluting the environment over.

Fuck the environment. Clarkson is a god.

Malaysia is making cars?

You learn something new every day...

Malaysia is making cars that actually work :eek:

Criticizing a poorly made care from a company run by corrupt men. Kinda like winning the Nobel Prize for discovering that shit stinks.

Criticizing a poorly made care from a company run by corrupt men. Kinda like winning the Nobel Prize for discovering that shit stinks, then blowing it up.

Fixed.

Meh. Less ugly than my car.

http://www.canadiandriver.com/articles/jc/images/92saturn_sl1.jpg

Meh. Less ugly than my car.

http://www.canadiandriver.com/articles/jc/images/92saturn_sl1.jpgHey big spender. Mind if I catch a ride with you.

Hey big spender. Mind if I catch a ride with you.

If you like that, you'll love this:

http://akamaipix.crutchfield.com/graphics/roadtest/ramsay/ramsay_car.jpg

It's beauty of a car, really. Only mine doesn't exactly run...

I saw this yesterday. Do the Malaysians really have nothing better to do than complain in Parliament about a critic on the other side of the world? :p

If they don't want to be known for making crap cars, then they should just stop making crap cars. The Perodua is just a box on wheels. Actually, a box would be more attractive.

I'm from Malaysia, and I don't trust Malaysian cars!

Maybe not all Malaysian cars are bad, but this one is what it looks like. The only time I got mad was when he called a Ford Lightning rubbish.

Meh. Less ugly than my car.

http://www.canadiandriver.com/articles/jc/images/92saturn_sl1.jpg

No, I think the Kelisa is much worse than yours.
Anyway, the Kelisa deserved it. It's a bloody awful car.

Maybe not all Malaysian cars are bad, but this one is what it looks like. The only time I got mad was when he called a Ford Lightning rubbish.

from what i hear... all malaysian cars are bad.. (but this is only coming from 3-4 malaysians versus the whole populous of malaysia)

Oh no! some-one thinks our country might be bad at something! [/impersonation]

Fuck the environment. Clarkson is a god.Hey, if you want to fuck the environment after Clarkson littered it with shrapnel, it's your genitals at risk. No skin off my back.

This time it's Malaysia:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6528087.stm

In case you're wondering what he did:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf3Rw8VW3aE

That is one ugly car. It deserved everything and more.
Here's a hint Malaysia: If you don't want ppl to criticise your cars, make better ones!

Ah, but if I had criticized the car, I'd be called a fucking racist bigot, right?

No, you'd be a racist bigot whether you criticized it or not.

And how am I a racist bigot, being a brown person?

Ah, but if I had criticized the car, I'd be called a fucking racist bigot, right?

No, you'd be a racist bigot whether you criticized it or not.

And how am I a racist bigot, being a brown person?

Brown people can't be racist?

Brown people can't be racist?

Well, Nadkor and others seem to think it's a crime against brown people, so...

I do?

Well, thank you for keeping me up to date with my own opinions and reminding me of them, without you I might forget.

*must remember racism is something only white people can do*

I keep mixing you up with Nodinia, sorry. :fluffle:

Well, Nadkor and others seem to think it's a crime against brown people, so...

I do?

Well, thank you for keeping me up to date with my own opinions and reminding me of them, without you I might forget.

*must remember racism is something only white people can do*

Maybe not all Malaysian cars are bad, but this one is what it looks like. The only time I got mad was when he called a Ford Lightning rubbish.

I'm from Malaysia so I feel like an authority on this subject :)

ALL Malaysian cars are quite rubbish :P

Here are a few examples.
Proton Saga (an ancient model though):
http://www.jnrmimi.com/images/iswara.jpg
http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/people/ohtani/malaysia/gif/saga.jpg

Perodua Kancil (we nickname it The Aluminium Tin Can. "Of Death" is an optional tag at the end :p It's really that tiny and fragile):
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/0/09/200px-Perodua_kancil.jpg

The newer models are not as butt-ugly but they still aren't "safe". Getting into an accident(let's say one that simply dents a Merc) will damage the car (one large dent), wreck it, or kill you.

He told MPs, Perodua had not received a single complaint from British owners.
That's because the cars that we export are of a higher quality than the ones sold domestically.