The Edge described the new Proton Saga (BLM) as the car that will disrupt automotive industry in Malaysia. A car that likely to change the equilibrium in the local entry-level car segment, which is currently dominated by second national car manufacturer Perodua, the ever famous Perodua MyVi. The model’s disruptive force comes from its price factor and product offering. This was the news a week before it’s launching and that time, only received around 6000 units pre booking.

Barely a week after official launching, Proton received a whopping 23,000 units booking of Proton Saga. This figure easily beat previous “fastest selling model” by Proton, the Persona. The Persona received 14,000 bookings after about a month of its launching (news date on Aug 15). Until today, I haven’t see any BLM on the road, even here at Proton City. But I’m pretty sure it will fill our road soon. Proton promise to deliver the booking as fast as possible by working double shift targeting to produce 5,500 units BLM a month. DSZ asked the customer to be patient and promised that they will deliver a quality car (thus they need time). Well, lets hope Proton keeps their promise. If not, I afraid it will disrupt people perception of Proton, which is on the rise right now.

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Took this picture early October this year. A proof that proton is readying their stock for CPS powered engine vehicles, which includes the Gen2. So expect the launching this January will not only the hot, highly anticipated Proton Iswara Replacement the BLM, it may includes the face lifted Gen2 with CPS and Proton Waja CPS as well.

Overall on the exterior not much different from current Waja on the road, the most noticeable different from curent Waja is the twin tailpipes. Nice… Not sure about the interior though, but under the hood is the upgraded Campro engine with the CPS and VIM of which should bring a lot of power to current low power on low RPM campro. Some comments that CPS + VIM on Campro is groundbreaking technology in automotive world, I’m not an expert to comment though. Groundbreaking sounds like a strong word don’t you think. You may want to read on Paultan as well.

One picture only? I only have one, because of the same outlook of the car i focused only on the CPS badge. But you can enjoy the following two pictures. Malaysian is full of creative people. A Waja converted to EVO X. The cheapest and slowest too EVO X in the world hehe. Found on lowyat. Previously there’s a Waja converted to EVO 9, the exterior is almost 90% same with the EVO but the interior 100% Waja. Not sure what happen to the car now as the owner did mention to transplant the engine and upgrade the interior as well.

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Unlike other products from Proton Design, which are not many, Neo Symphony and Neo Desire, Envy does not get much attention it deserved. It’s shadowed by the Proton Persona in the original form itself, with a lot of improvement over its hatchback sibling, gen.2 and other models, there’s too much to talk about. Maybe. I first heard about Proton Persona Envy in one forum which I can’t remember, with only one picture attached. It looked so good that make me want to see by myself. That was about two weeks ago. Only today I had the chance to go to Proton COE (Center of Excellence) and witness the beauty by my own eyes. Sadly, I forgot to bring the camera along, so the pictures below taken using my camera phone only. Persona Envy just a concept to show how you can turn your Persona into nice and unique Proton car. However, this could be the only one Persona Envy that Proton ever built, but the idea is just to show how big the potential is. The thing with Proton is, they seldom market what they can sell. Of course they are not selling the envy, but for sure ah-beng out there will drool over Persona when they see Envy. One way of selling as well. At the parking lot, there’s few Limited Edition Savvy and Neo as well, ever heard about it? I bet you not.

The LED rear light. When asked the sales person about the availability of the lights to public, she answered me this, “No, we don’t have that in any model, You just have to go to Brothers shop. It cost about RM1,000.00 per pair”, which made me wonder, did Proton Design bought there as well? I didn’t asked the lady though.
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