It look better than Honda City for my personal opinion.
Top spec vs Top spec, beside QC, Engine and Transmissions. It more or less on par with Honda City with 30k cheaper.

Looks better than Honda City and Fiesta Sedan.

But is it me or what, that rear wheel seems way smaller, or out of proportion.

light grey. but yeap..still easy to get dirty..and the door card colour looks akward.

im driving a persona now, looking forward to change to the new persona for a while, but kinda disappointed since they relegated to B segment, and there is no wow factor in the new design.

Vios kacuk Fiesta sedan?

B seg, a seg smaller than Persona/Gen 2 (which is a C albeit much smaller than other C seg)

better than krik krik krik cengkerik gm6 city...

Indicative pricing is between 47k to 61k (peninsular only)

You can check out my post : https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?act=ST&f...0#entry81224274

looks nice. ayam rike

The booking fee is RM300, and the sum is refundable.
A new bit of info is the Persona’s indicative price range – RM47,000 to RM61,000 in Peninsular Malaysia and from RM49,000 to RM63,000 in Sabah and Sarawak.

Overlap price range with Preve atm, but that variant Preve will be discontinued soon.

This post has been edited by stasio: Aug 16 2016, 11:36 AM

wow, my hand itchy alrdy

After 3 months or so, 10% discount!! Weee

The previous Persona was a C segment car because at the point of time during its inception, the other C segment cars were sized as such, think the older sentra, older corolla etc. Today, the C segment has grown by quite a bit and Proton's C segment challengers are the Preve/Suprima. So, the only way to maintain a clear separation between the current C segment offering from Proton was to push the new Persona to B segment. Here, the overall car does not differ too much from the car it replaces. There will be some pluses and some minuses though. And to further create a space for the Persona, the Saga which when it first came out in 1985 as a C segment has been pushed all the way down to be the company's representative in A segment. This is to enable the Saga to continue being the company's most affordable model for its customers.

Hope the explanation helps.

This post has been edited by lowpro: Aug 16 2016, 02:20 PM

I dunt see why segment downgrade is an issue at all especially when this new Persona is slightly more spacious that current one.

Its like preferring ais kacang from shop A coz they use bigger bowl compared to shop B with smaller bowl , but shop B has slightly bigger portion overall.

This post has been edited by alanyuppie: Aug 16 2016, 05:00 PM

interm of wheelbase and width,its almost the same,so,interior dimension almost the same,but new design of interior(old vs new persona) gives new persona feels bigger inside.

new b segment already equal to old c segment. downgrading segment doesnt mean compromise the space. eventhough the length is shorter,but when speaking of interior volume,basically looking at wheelbase and how cleaverly its being design.

like bezza,eventhough the wheelbase is far shorter,but by playing with seats and dash design,they can create big interior and spacious boot.

2.5 box design is actually favouritely being use when converting hatch to sedan,and also b segment car cuz it saves on cost cuz no rework on front end chasis structure,especially when things already good in crash rating. redesign new front end will cost more. so,better to spend more money on something else.

being a hatch based sedan which normally hatch has bulbous front,so not to make and awkward transition,rear end also will follow suit.

some prefer 3 box normal sedan design,like new saga. eventhough old saga is based in savvy,but due to campro engine cant fit in savvy front end,it has to redesign. so,it got a normal 3 box design. eventhough,new saga seems a bit bigger than new persona,but it certainly not.

well,having to come out 3 cars n 1 mpv in 1 year, proton need to be really carefull in spending some money in rnd cost.

eventhough i wish that they just come out with 1 new sedan,but they need to replace n rearrange the product position,plus bom cost is higher in persona,so cant replace saga with saga price.

even new saga will share some parts with prev proton which isnt that bad either.

i heard that in test unit saga,they use exora n preve steering,which i think the latter will make into production,same as exora head unit,which i dont think its a big problem.

the good thing is since more rnd money is spend on refinement,rather than fully in design,new saga also will get an improve on refinement.

quality is as it is in the segment they enter,but i just hope that they consistent in it. i believe the consistency in quality is the main problem previously. some are good,some are bad.

but of course,its not perfect products. but i do like the new direction, focus on what matter most.

eventhough its subjectives,but i think new saga dont look as cheap as it supposed to be as usual,proton.,inside and out. That is the thing that makes toyota a house hold name. Cheap,doesnt mean need to look cheap,n drive like a cheap car.

i hope they still continue to follow this new direction eventhough the market now isnt that encouraging and challenging.

This post has been edited by mat79: Aug 16 2016, 04:31 PM

The new Saga based on the old BLM chassis, are there any improvements in terms of safety? or is it the same as before.

rumours abound that the new Saga only scored 4 star ASEAN NCAP, which is less than encouraging considering the competition.

Comparable to Premium Bezza, the Saga FLX got 4 stars Asean NCAP ratings, but the FLX does not come with ESC. Which is same as Bezza lower specs.

So should we assume that the new Saga with all variant will be equipped with ESC shall be rated 5 stars also.

BTW, why do i think the FLX dont deserve 4 stars rating?

Saga 3 star only



This post has been edited by dares: Aug 16 2016, 05:01 PM

with some improvement, the new Saga will be 4 Star.

https://www.autofreaks.com/news/2016-proton...colours-listed/

According to AF, Abs, Ebd and brake assist is standard throughout all models. Only Premium gets hill assist, TC and ESC. If this is true, then the Premium version is eligible for 5 stars while the rest get 4 stars.

I'm quite sure there will be some structure strengthening just like what P2 did with the facelift Myvi

This post has been edited by Lez Pall: Aug 16 2016, 06:38 PM