Wah.. nice nice. Sounds like this is a win!

How bad it is? They said much roomier than old gen persona.
If it is roomier than old gen persona,then acceptable i guess. But if its much more cramped than old persona..

Is the VVT engine using timing belt?

The front sensor, if i'm not mistaken they'll keep/beep once if there is any incoming object around the car (similar to myvi front sensor but myvi sound so annoying). Queued behind a car at the traffic junction, the sensor will beep once you get near the front car. Btw there is no option to turn off this feature (the female SA told me) I don't know whether it will be annoyance for some user.

The leg room for the driver are quite okay for me, I still got some leg room to move around but the seat need to be set at lowest point. Just that for the passenger especially at the back, for a big guy, they'll have a hard time to comfort themself as the leg room are quite limited, can't move around but my mom said it's comfy enough. Langgar all bumper she said still quite comfy at behind, my mum like 150cm.

As you said the gear knob are way to far, if the seat are set way behind. Apparently with my short hand I won't be comfortable enough changing the gear.

My mom always complain when shes inside my old car every time we hit a speed bumper, or lubang, passenger will always feel the hardest feedback, sometimes she even levitate (tercampak) abit . She feel comfortable enough with persona, no hard feedback from the absorber.
I don't know for sure hows the beeping goes, but 1 thing for sure the SA mention theres no switch to turn off the sensor. If the SA were wrong, that's 1 more thing to add not to trust proton SA, misleading information.

regarding the footwell ruptured,original iriz was design to streghten up following the how vw polo(main benchmark for iriz n persona was polo,thats why the seats also following up polo design interm of comfort,rnh n etc,but they missed on refinement in iriz) was constructed and reinforced.  while preve/suprima has crossmember lower dash reinforced using hpf, iriz use the same method as polo(strategic point) using hpf subframe crossmember rear reinforcement(before footwell) and subrame crossmember floor upper(near front wheel arch).

according to my source it suppossed to have enough strength to withstand the impact eventhough not as good as preve/suprima. He said that he would check with related department.

on the other hand,i know its not really a big matter, normally in proton cars,they used hard plastics on gear lever,handbrake,n super cheap button.

for persona,u will notice that  most switch gears n buttons has been revised,whether with diff materials or diff feels to it.

gear lever n handbrake in persona used soft plastics,unlike typical hard plastics for proton. the a/c dials n button a a bit better feels when in used,a bit rubbery than loosen feels in iriz,eventhough it looks a bit cheapo,same as iriz.

and many also dont realise that eventhough the rear light missing the led or even lightbars(ccfl),but they managed to make it look like light bars even with conventional bulb. its not a new thing,but its new for proton,n it does make it looks more expensive than the led tail lamp used by proton before.

Thank you for the image, now I know there is a switch to disable the sensor 

Was informed by SA penang branch..the sales of persona in penang abit slow compare to other states...penang ppl more kiasu, need to wait feedback first before buy..lol

Hahha normal tinted where can bulletproof.
Kena scam la you.

front hentam other car, back hit by motor?

Beli la sebijik

wah got both myvi and iriz 

deswai quite weird bro.. why need 2 identical hb. huhu