Social media abuzz over Guan Eng's new ride


GEORGE TOWN: The new official car of Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng — a Mercedes-Benz S300L — continues to draw attention on social media.

Netizens have widely shared a news article by a Chinese daily in 2008, which reported Lim’s criticism of the Terengganu government’s decision then to get a fleet of Mercedes-Benz as official cars.

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