Matt Prior
TESTER’S NOTES
Most Brits don’t miss Proton, but many do at least know the name
I have a dim and distant memory of two Bullseye contestants winning the darts game show’s star prize, which, perhaps or perhaps not unusually, wasn’t a speedboat but a car.
As it was surprise-revealed to them (and this is where I wish I could be more confident in my memory, which yesterday couldn’t find my keys), I think one of the pair said slightly dismissively “it’s a Proton!”, to which host Jim Bowen replied “it doesn’t matter, it’s a car!”. Alas, my YouTube searching hasn’t yet revealed whether my recollections are accurate. But how would you, do you think, feel about a Proton being revealed to you today? What does the name still mean to you, if anything?