Hello, I plan to get the saga as my first car ownership. In the past until current, I've only been driving secondhand cars that me / my dad bought, for example a 06' volvo S60, 06' Mitsubishi Outlander VRX, Toyota Avanza, all of the cars that I've driven isn't new, and it's at least more than 15-20 years for some.

Recently, I thought of getting a new car, mainly because my mitsubishi fuel consumption is really bad, just for an example, it's a 2.4cc car, if I pump let's say RM 20 today, just by going to a few places in total of 30-40 KM, the fuel light will have already light up, either that or the fuel gauge will already reach empty, that's how abnormal it is. Anyway, the main point here is to talk about the new Proton Saga, I've read a lot of reviews and seen all the videos that is available, it seems really value for money and the best of car if not one of the best to get under RM 50K.

Perhaps it'll be easier for you guys to provide me with your opinion and advice on whether I should get this car based on my requirements.

- Must be fuel-saving
- I mainly drive around town, my daily route is about a total of 20-30 KM, sometimes more, mainly going from Place A to B as fix, then running some errands.
- I would love to drive the car for outstation occasionally, from JB to Melaka, or KL, please advice if this saga is suitable in terms of comfort / NVH / power, of course not comparing with other segments, just in general.

Fuel saving - Can only tell after people running it on the road for at least 6 months.

As for other things, go and test drive, it is free. Take your time, no rush, and compare to other similar priced car.

Saga would be a safer car, Bezza more economical… one Grab driver, she told me… Saga tends to heat up a bit in traffic (perhaps new version not so much), Bezza gearbox wears out faster. But go test drive for yourself…. 30k bookings for new Saga already and Bezza is in top 3 for sales volume.

Saga MC3 looks good on paper. If u decided to get, just remember to immediately change the tyres to Michelin XM2+

Thanks for all the advice, will be going for a test drive soon. Based on current data, anyone can comment whether it's suitable for occasional long drive on the highway ?

wait for actual owners review dulu. and have to wait for the owners to get over their honeymoon period also, so thats gonna be quite a while.

cuz when it comes to proton, fuel consumption is a toss-up.

but fuel-saving is relative. maybe 10km/l is good when you come from a 6km/l car, but it's still bad to everything else.

on paper the mc3 is good but everything is good on paper. and most current online videos are sponsored journalists, of course they're gonna say it's good, they're not the owners.

if you don't need a boot myvi fits in the budget as well. confirm fuel saving. but for me, i need a big boot so hatchbacks are not my first choice.

bezza is an elongated axia, it drives like if you take a small piece of dough and stretch it to be bigger and expect it to be as firm. it doesn't. it drives good in-city, if you highway a lot, it will be tiring. if you drive in-city exclusively, bezza is great. huge utility points. it gets the job done well enough, but wont wow you with anything other than fuel consumption and boot size. the rear seats arent great but you're the driver anyways lol.

outside of p1 and p2, really not much option for new cars under 50k.

used cars on the other hand, a lot of choices but will require some knowledge on cars and quite a bit of luck. best if you know the car and the owner directly.

i think a lot of people will recommend you to wait for the actual reviews from owners before pulling the trigger, and that's my recommendation as well. while you're waiting, word on the grapevine is that bezza will be having facelift as well, but likely sometime in 2026. let's see if the facelift will require monthly payments or not lmao.

Should have no issue, people have been driving a car that is a class below new Saga for long distant.

However, it may not be as good as your current and previous car for long distant travelling, mainly in the aspect of comfortability and stability.

Saga - A segment which is a city car
If want fuel savings this is not the priority (proton cars never heard fuel savings very good when compare to like Perodua) unless your willing to upgrade to EV like Emas5
Long distance driving? With your previous car ownership any of the older car also more better except for the Avanza. If long distance, usually people will recommend at least Segment C above rides.

survey old altis

Fuel already cheap, what is the concern about fuel consumption, right?

Simple P1 power > P2 power. You just need to test a car going up hill. You will know that car is useless if slow up the hill. Learn from atuk Khong. Why everytime he test Genting. LoL.

This post has been edited by danielmckey: Dec 4 2025, 07:02 PM

his vid semua useless one lah.

Bezza & myvi facelifts would not be coming in 2026. They are expected to be launched in 2027.

What's left from Perodua for this year is Perodua Traz. The twin of Toyota Yaris Cross.

This post has been edited by amscouzach57: Dec 4 2025, 10:10 PM

really ke. i dont follow too much of car releases now. kinda dissapointing. and i thought it was called the Nexis.

tbh i have little hope for p2 now ever since their qve. but should wait and see if this traz will fare better.

yes, very much agreed. it will drive well, for an A segment car. comfort wise ts will miss the older cars.

can also look at civic fb (facelift) but all are >10 cars if within 50k budget. lately i looking at mazda 6 2.0L. 10 year old d segment looking not bad also, but have to prepare wallet for big spend just in case.

p1 > p2 when its not using punch cvt. i had better experience with dcvt especially during downhill. punch keeps pulling the rpm 3k when it detects the car is descending. the sound always sound like its going to break itself. would prefer the saga in 4at but only for the low and mid spec so sad.

Yeah. They decided on Traz instead of Nexis.

It might be powered by the 1.5L NA engine & DCVT combo.

Just think of it as a Myvi sized SUV.

Common sense, if vid useless still got plenty of people watch his video including you watch it. LoL.

Going downhill not for you to speed. Cvt is correct. Actually I saw many car going downhill speeding. Not sure the reason.

Yes. Nowadays most AT & CVT transmissions has downhill assist or hill descent control to automatically apply engine braking when going downhill.

I usually lift my foot of the throttle & have my foot on standby on the brake pedal when going downhill

Last time preve, persona, x70 ,x50 they all advertised as fuel economical car but irl all use up more fuel than Korean car.

The only fuel economy car coming from proton is the ertiga.

no speeding downhill lah of course. my first experience with a transmission that aggressively revs up to ~3k during downhill, the sound it makes doesn't give me confidence.

the cars i drive arent super modern so this is the first time i experience this kind of auto-rev to 3k. closest i have is ativa i don't remember it doing that.

so i guess it's a feature, not a bug.

Each of them should have some kind of similar function.

Whether it is obvious, or not so noticeable. The Proton CVT was blatantly obvious if I remember correctly. I've owned Saga FLX & the Persona in the past.

I do remember test driving Mitusbishi Xpander last year, it's 4AT doesn't have any downhill assist.

However, I was told to press O/D off button located at the gear knob to activate engine braking when going downhill.

This post has been edited by amscouzach57: Yesterday, 10:23 AM

Any car is able to do long drive, just drive within speed limit for saga and u will be ok.
If kancil 660cc maybe maintain like 60-70km/h

Agreed, ive been driving kancil 850ez auto, travel bandar baru bangi to muar all the way 80kmh sometimes 100kmh, so far not bad but fuel consumption not that good ⛽😐😣👍

3k rpm is aggresive?

most, if not all of Honda's current 1.5L Turbo charged engines all have up and down hill ascend/descend controls and will rev up RPM accordingly to keep the turbocharger spooled. yes, that is over 3k RPM to maintain maximum torque maximum turbo spooled.

major difference between Honda and Proton (1.6 Campro VVT, current and latest gen Persona/Iriz, can't comment on Saga MC2 CVT) , is drive train NVH (Honda much better) and not so noticeable for Honda. (both engine and CVT implementation)
also, Honda torque converter helps, while Proton is punch dry clutch CVT, the NVH is a lot noticeable.

what i would like to highlight here is, FEEL is not FACTS.
of course, it is easier for me to say it because i am an enthusiast and i tend to go beyond 6-7k RPM in my own car.
and yes, you're right. they are features for their intended purposes.

to each their own, and yes i feel that the punch cvt is aggresive at 3k revs.

i never experience any other car with this much of engine braking before so i cant speak for them, but i can say im not really a fan of peoton implementation of this and cant really turn it off.

Ya hard choice, the premium rm50k gives u all features but paksa u to take the punch cvt. Already test drive the exec 4at version, at low speed no jerk at all but the car won't pull forward 1 sec after release brake like the cvt version.
The cvt maybe safe fuel 5% every tank but the change cvt fluid(60k km) +filter+adaption expensive rm500+. The aisin 4at only use 1 liter atf oil can be easily change outside bengkel under rm100 (30k km).
If the car normal use drive gently, the punch cvt can lasted around >150k km. If use the car doing sales or grab better choose the torque converter 4at version more tahan lasak.
Owned persona vvt before, no I won't buy the punch cvt again. Once kena P01765 secondary pulley low pressure problem the car very scary will free gear at middle of drive. To repair must overhaul damage rm4k+.