Proton’s Motorsport division lads have certainly been busy bees. The Satria Neo R3 Supercharged seen recently hasn’t been the only thing worked on, it seems.
Say hello to the ARTIGA Concept, which Proton – or rather, Youngman – has unveiled at Auto Shanghai. It’s another Satria Neo-based offering the company says is a study on the future of the hot hatch for Proton, one inspired by its participation in motorsports, but taken to a new level.
Unlike the supercharged R3 Neo, the debutant in China is less flashy colour-wise, clad in a more stoic grey tone, but in terms of exterior lines is certainly more aggresive, with extensive use of carbon fibre. Among the places the stuff makes its way on to is the bonnet, side skirts, spoiler as well as rather aggressively-shaped front and rear diffusers. The car features a patented stamping process to mass produce the carbon fibre parts, which helps to significantly reduce the cost of the items.
Plenty in the way of radical bulging bits though – check out what passes off as wheel arches on the car, working their way into the remodelled bumpers! Elsewhere, the concept features centrally-mounted twin tailpipes, swanky new headlamps and Oz Racing wheels, among other things.
It features the same supercharger treatment – as the Satria Neo R3 Supercharged – to increase power and torque (which should put it at 180 hp and 200 Nm, presumably), as well as the same Ohlins and AP brake package as seen in the limited-edition Satria Neo Lotus Racing.
The ARTIGA is on display at Proton’s Chinese partner Youngman’s booth, and is there to gauge the public’s feedback and interest. A bit of trivia: The car is sporting a Youngman logo, as Proton currently has no direct presence in China at the moment. Clever name too, ARTIGA is, yes?
Live show photo gallery after the jump. Update: Interior shots added
[zenphotopress number=999 album=2191]
Looking to sell your car? Sell it with Carro.
it seems the chinese (as in CHINA chinese) are happy with proton
Not exactly, poorly rated and poor sales as far as I know
as wat i see amount of thumbs down r ppl dat r bias towards proton but the fact that the sales are not doin good… still wanna thumbs down ? total protong supporters only…
Awesome Jinjang maximum dude!!!!
Go JinjangJoe!!!!! Go JinjangJane!!!!
Those jinjang has a very weird taste, bless their souls………
Wait for sales firgure to talk….
ANyway, China market is at least 0 time more than us. Selling few thousand unit a year is easy work…
what about wait for the sales “girl” figure, then only talk?
haha lol
They dont need market share to success over there..Proton just need sales volume in order to make cash flow in.. :)
i wish my neo head lamp exactly just like that…proton..please make this kind of head lamp….pretty pleaseeeeeeee………….
kita anak Malaysia patut bangga coz proton! Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hidup Proton!! Aku nak beli kereta nie… tapi keluaran Proton, not youngman :D
ar-tiga = R 3
the headlamps are nicer than our Neo!
they look like those on the Saga FL don’t u think? :)
That is Saga FL headlamps.
maybe you should check your eyes then go look again at saga fl lights. ;)
Yes, my bad. I was wearing my a black cloth over my eyes. Now that I see it, it is quite different from Saga FL. Looks can be very deceiving. Sorry about that.
I thought this Team Tony Trooper hangs out only at Team Lotus and LRGP stories but it looks like his scope of work has spread.
Hah, good one Bigmouth. I’ve been on Paultan blog since 2005 and loves every bits of it. Me criticising LRGP does not mean my support is with Team Lotus. I always support Scuderia Ferrari and it stay that way still.
It just that I don’t understand why people tend to bash TF so much. I read a lot of articles related to TL, LRGP and Dany and TF. I have my own opinion. That does not make me a TL supporter.
By the way, why bring Lotus problem over here?
Agreed.. looks more garang
now u can buy that car front and put on ur neo, great china design
what can i say..speechless….
oh i get it now AR TIGA = r3
LOL! man, you’re awesome!
lol genius!
GOOD ONE!
seems like china boys really opened up our dictionary for the name and they come out rather better in terms of looks
ARTIGA is not R3.. google it and you will know.. it’s italiano.. or is it spanish. hemm..
cheerio!
at least he made a good guess..
i think everybody know he is joking.
cheers!
what the head lamp??it should be LED light not a FAKE EGG light.
Fake eggs from China what..consider OK lorr..its for their market, fake egss, fake eggs headlamps..etc etc..haha :P
They should’ve restyled the back lights-IMO doesn’t suit well with the rest of the hard-edge styling.
Impressive thing though, good job Proton
No!!! They spoiled the side profile!
Still prefer the vanilla satria neo.
It is the best looking car in Proton up to date.
Front grill need some touch up and, hey they rear lamp need some updates too.
yeah…looks like tampal2 only…not like the satria GTi design and the Neo 1.6CPS side body design
btw the 6th pic…..if u din mention ppl will think its from bmw
yeah.lol
AR Tiga = R 3 :D
clever idea r3!
It’s always a better quality, design AND cheaper price for outside malaysia. Rakyat always being suck drain 1st as usual. Sigh
Just a concept,but you relate it with something unrelated.What do you mean ‘cheaper price outside Malaysia’?
Protons are pricier in Singapore,Thailand and Indonesia.
You’re just another typical bashers exist out there.
some people like to compare car price in Malaysia with those “land of no tax where their oil income is in trillion dollar” . Remember folks, the grass is not always greener on the other side.
wow only by looking at pic can tell better quality ha???
very terer r u… hahaha and d design… custom fibre shop here can do better..
Supercharge, yes! But design wise, i’ll take our ArThree over this ArTiga any day… wheel arches fail!
Spanner arches :(
I’ll take the gal…
Doesnt look good to me at all, those fenders are like a big piece slapped on to the car. Looks like a tank!
Splitters looks too beng-lish. Maybe china ah bengs love them, not my cup of coffee.
3rd last picture with hood open:
http://image1.paultan.org/photo/cache/shanghai-2011-artiga-concept-by-proton/artiga-07_770.jpg
I dont see no supercharger in it. Still the same campro CPS air intake into the carbon fiber R3 airbox drop in filter.
Jason,
Was told that the photo you mentioned was taken before the supercharger work was carried out. Photo of the unit in the bay after fitment is in the gallery.
in malaysia only reject design….
If Proton start to offer this model to the public, the mod crowd will probably do one on their own. A resourceful chap may even offer it as a modified kit. The supercharger is Aussie-sourced and can easily get one from there. The other bits are available easily.
to me artiga headlamp more like scirocco
this car is old ( 5 years) but delicous!! YES!!!
ARTIGA…might as well put ROARTAIGA.
i dont really like the rear splitter and twin squarish exhaust. but overall design and engine is just awesome.
ARTIGA means ‘R’ + ‘3’ (spelling in malay okay)
so, instead of ‘R’ three.. they use R+tiga = R3
hehe.. am i right?
But i dont like this ah beng car…better Satnia Neo 2000 than this modi.
the design is not bad at all… like the new front fascia… :D
U certainly are confused. Those ‘things’ on the side are sorry excuses for wheel arches, and have you noticed the size of the rear diffuser thing? They look even worse from the side protruding from its rear butt…
beauty is subjective mate.. don’t need to label one as confused.. :)
OK… my bad. I’m man enuff to say so. I was just personally overwhelmed by what they did to it at that moment. But ur right, if it rocks ur boat, your choice. To each man his own..
Nice headlamps and it look alike BMW…Wooss!
front looks like scirocco, not a bad thing
Awesome! This could feature in the future Transformer movie as one of the bad guy, ‘Artigon’ perhaps?
The Artiga is actually the best name a chinese car manufacturer gave to a car. Many chinese car manufacturers gave funny names to their cars, from beauty leopard, QQ and many more numeric names, but the Altiga is just like how the Europeans will name their sports cars. Nice!
Artiga = Ar3 = R3 :))
Demmmm.. It’s true man.. Cannot agree more.. hahaha.. Terbaekkkkkkkkk……
Soooooo Ah Beng!!!!
Ekzos tiru cam Lamborghini. oh tidak…..
it is for AhBeng China mainland market..so dont worry,it wont make it to Bolehland :P hehe..
LoL now that u mentioned it.. ARTIGA sounds veeerryyy familiar :D
I saw a Proton on the highway in Shanghai – it was a Proton Persona only without the Proton badge. It was a some Chinese badge. At first I thought I saw something like the Proton but on closer look it was a Proton. Congrats Proton making an inroad to the Chinese market. You need to compete with VW, Audi,Peugeot,Buick or even their very own Cherry and Geely.
Proton compete with VW & Audi?
I already heard the R3 supercharged Satria Neo can be bought around RM100k in Malaysia.. Is that true?!?
Anyway no offence the lights of Saga FL & This does look like a bit like Merc C class front lights.. Even the old Saga BLM rear lights also does look like Merc C class rear lights…
Hohohoho… after this we can see a long wheel base version of neo since they are fond it…
too bad no long wheel base version for satria neo…
any interior shots? hoping it comes with premium dashboard so that i can order and replace the cheap plastic in my neo. also the turbocharger :) can order from youngman hehe
supercharger, i presume?
Interior shots have been added to the gallery.
Thanks! :)
I say, yet more conversation between animals! LOL!
bole la as entry level, good try proton
Those wheel arches scare me. Why’d they have to Ah Bengify every new iteration of the Neo? I think the original non-CPS models looked the best, honestly. But that supercharger is smexy.
what exactly makes this ah beng? i think its quite understated actually. colours are muted, nothing bright.. no shiny bits, no big rear wing.. big rear diffuser is ok.. standard european type gt car styling.. looks kinda muscular and aggresive. i suppose the riveted bits is just an extension of the idea from the original satria gti, and then the neo cps.. which seems to point to the fact that it is intentional. i can start to imagine driving this around at nite…
although its just a concept, the wheel arch is fail for me. Looks like it just being paste to the body. Better do it properly and do the proper wide body version of the Neo. All the carbon fiber also didn’t help much either.
Anyway kudos to R3, perhaps this can be a success in China market.
They could have modeled this up with Yougman’s input. It has to be appealing to the market you are selling to. If you look at the others on show, they don’t have your typical styling that we are used to. Who are we to judge their taste? Some of us own Ssangyong Stavics!
I agree with you bro! diffrent market of course need different taste..we are Malaysian and we are not consider eligable to be a jury of this design..guess everyone saw even worse design came from China..
Correct, some uncle just bought Ssang Yong Stavic! what the hell he was thinking..poorly design..still got buyer worldwide..Cherry Tigo? OMG! still got people buy..Cherry Alado!? still Malaysia people buy..soo..
like u said..we cant judge Chinese mainland market..
i just want the engine and suspension.
concept haha but nice lah tidak akan keluar production.. but bold design proton heheheh make satria neo owner thinking to modd thier satria now.. go proton…. bullet malaysia hehehe
Dear Proton,
How does it handle after the mods?
If it is good, use the same concept and apply it to existing unsold Persona and Savvy export models before you totally replace these models. I’ll bet they will be hot sell.
This is R3 dude. Try one out. Then you’ll stop asking.
The front number plate wordings “?????” actually means Lotus Concept Car. Err… is Youngman trying to con Chinessman in China???
kereta biasa biasa saja even after heavy modified.
Initially, I thought Thundercat Logo isn’t elegant but not after I’ve seen YoungMan. What do U think? If U too agree, then Proton should have some kind of brand / image control & not just got carried away that someone want to license their platform & let them do whatever they like. I bet those from Lotus don feel good on this.
You’re right man..i think they overuse the Lotus name..even the cps engine cover they put Lotus name..damn
something a little off with the widebody conversion attempt..
I think this is a pretty sick car. Love how the signal indicators glow white but changes to yellow when indicating. Reminds me of the latest S-Class which has the same feature.
If this car was a guy..he might have a handsome face with macho appealing..but with bloating thigh and fat ass!! :P
from the front view, look like a muscle car…emm..
Lunatic creation. Take out back diffuser and bulky arch.Yark!!! ugly.Too much.AhBeng design but one you can’t deny headlamp is “muahhhhh.delicious”
very nice headlamp !
but too many fiber make that car look stringy
OMMMMMG… I like the headlamp.. More nicer…… I like the styling front and rear but side look was awful..
Lotus Concept Car? well, i think within 5 years, the brand will go down the drain as trust problem worldwide..
Proton oh Proton… Be like like Kia…
OMG! nice headlamp! like a powerful super car!
The chinese model nicer than “R tiga”..lol
wow the front is awesome
I will not waste my money one this ARetard. I already book my Fiesta Sport …Only Ah Beng’s type person will buy it. Not even consider as a car.
Whateva…..!! Next..
haha… u think that fiesta is that damn good?
Come play with me…
See how good is your Fiesta….
like the front, hate the side and so so for the back
Nice……what I meant is the red color car….
nice bumber and headlamp and I wish to ride on it :)
The front number plate says something about Lotus donno what. Stating something like that means Lotus is in some way associated with this Satria Neo. OK if Satria Neo is a breakthrough car. But is it?
I think this Lotus/Satria Neo association will only cheapen the Lotus brand. I think this is a branding screw up.
The girl look much nicer then the car :D
Agree
Yes, she’s a very attractive lady…
nice! ARTIGA. later NEO-become NEYO
dowan car…me wan lenglui…*drool*
R3 = AR TIGA (R3 TRANSLATE TO BAHASA MALAYSIA)
Duh!!!!!
Looks great! But with JV between 2 reputable car companies for all the wrong reasons the car will fall apart into 3 pcs hence the name (roask in 3 places)
OZs, Ohlins and all other branded parts are probably imitations…
the satria neo has been getting so much of attention and personally i feel that if a local car has this much attention..the car to have it is the satria neo because……. low rent interior plastics aside…..it truly is a well engineered car..regardless of engine tune…from the standard campro, cps or r3 or wateva u care to name it…the chassis tuning and control is spot on…it really is an advert of what lotus can do when they are allowed to put get thier hands on something. and this has zero driving aids (unless u still consider abs an aid instead of a necessity even today)…. so its all about the way it is set up…..hmmmm.i can only imagine how good the evora is …….
although my daily drive is a mazda 6 i been ‘borrowing’ drives from my gf’s neo just to experience a manual neo around the corners..and its the one with the standard campro thats 4 years old..first batch i think….all i can say is that it amuses me all the time and im itching to give it a little more power (if the gf lets me ) even weirdly…..there has NEVER been a problem with the car…maybe she got lucky..i dunno…but i think this model is getting all the attention because other parties are staring to realize how good at is…and IMHO it deserves it….oh well….end…..
wow, i’ve read this exact comment before on other neo topic like 4 or 5 time already LOL..
bro.. try push it a bit harder around the corner and u can tell if this car is a fun car or not…
to me that fish tail feeling is super cool..
+99999
well, the headlamp is kinda new to us, but somehow resembles those beemers one.
Did they just use a sticker to cover up the proton logo on the engine cover??
only front design is nice..
http://paultan.org/photo/index.php?album=shanghai-2011-artiga-concept-by-proton&image=artiga003.jpg
my 2 cents: the steering looks better than our neo’s steering.
yes, proton should consider this styling for neo… the things that I don’t like are the gear knob and the aircond blower~ should not be painted red…
not bad ….everything look nice ….
why proton din produce sedan for this design….
So this car is really prep by r3 or youngman do this themself? :hmm:
this is done by an Italian Company.
love the front lamps…
very2 nice…
new comment box?wow…
artiga=r-tiga
Look nice, quality ??? Everybody knows !
wow i take back my wish, they actually making the interior worst. lol..
to all you guys, FYI, this car will have a carbon fiber platform… i cannot say much here but i can tell you one thing… if my calculation is correct.. this ARTIGA and SEsto elemento are related… MUahahah
omg interior color… headache..
Ultraman Artiga
Fuyoh, that front is hawt.
“The car features a patented stamping process to mass produce the carbon fibre parts, which helps to significantly reduce the cost of the items” – can Proton import this part instead of those expensive local supplier? Malaysian deserve an affordable carbon fibre
Timoon….Italian really know how to make a dramatic car.it just like the Neo’s front. Nicely done with it headlamp which shoud be the next list on Persona R.
Perhaps this ARTIGA will be sell in Malaysia or it will be for China market only?
The show girl look sweet, good choice. But proton use lotus to sell their car there… Like cheating people…
..whatever it is, i dun think Neo got that WOW factor, it is time for proton to redesign new hatchback or coupe!!!!
ARTIGA = R3 ??
Really nice… but I will never get in Malaysia. They make only for outsider only. Malaysia only use regular Neo only. Heheheh that the fact. If it get here we cannot afford to buy it because it will be limited only and the price it too high.
But I hope proton can reduce the price tag coz this is Malaysia Car.
Why make a car that Malaysian cannot had it. Make car that good enough and Malaysia can buy… Not car with a lot of problem and a car that boleh laaa… And please give us better quality than export version. I prefer Perodua because it QC more good than proton right now.
Sorry if if any one mad at me, because I use Waja, my cousin Use Persona. We got the same problem. Th engine problem. We paid RM60K just for problem car. If not engine it ok, but this engine so cannot be accepted.
My Mum has been using Gen2 since 2005 and Dad, Waja since 2006, sister a Saga since 2008, engines did not miss a beat.
yeah..me oso..my dad’s iswara is since 2000.. engine still ok.. just absorber, make sound..huhu.
Hi, when I click on the thumbnails of the car photos at the bottom of the article, I am getting a blank page with this error message:
Zenphoto needs to run setup but the setup scripts are not present. Please reinstall the setup scripts.
Please help to fix this, so we can view the photos. Thanks!
Terrific troubles altogether, you only need to got a brand new target audience. Exactly what might you advise in terms of a person’s distribute that you simply created at times previously? Every selected?