The Honda Brio and Mobilio have been spotted in Malaysia, together. This pic was sent in by reader Muhd Izat Hadi, who said he saw the cars this morning at the Sungai Buloh R&R area.
Now, the first line of thought for most is that these Hondas are coming to Malaysia. But that’s not happening – the Brio has been around for some time in Thailand and Indonesia, but it’s harder to make a case for a budget car with a foreign badge here, especially when it has to be very cheap to fight Perodua’s offerings.
To confirm that it’s not Honda Malaysia, we looked into our spyshot archive and found the trade plate number B2640A on a pre-production Proton Iriz test mule. In fact, Proton has been snapped testing a Brio before and this could be the same white unit.
As to why Proton is testing the Brio now, your guess is as good as ours. The national carmaker is currently working with Suzuki, and the first joint product will be a compact car, so the Brio could be a reference point.
The Mobilio? A budget MPV could be in the works. Suzuki has a Mobilio and Avanza fighter called the Ertiga – could that be part of Proton’s plans as well? Both the Brio and Mobilio share the same platform, and Proton could even be studying platform sharing.
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Its been ages introduced in India, Thailand & Indonesia..here in bolehlahland still on test.
It’s test mule, you dun read kah?
Finally! Brio and Mobilio in Malaysiaaaaaaaaaaaa
If Priced under 70k only worth buy, but need approval from MITI. Wish Honda good luck proposing the price :)
How come Suzuki can sell the Alto at 40K & Hyundai & Kia can sell the i10/Picanto at 50K? Brio is an A-segmenter too.
Honda don’t want to sell the Brio here because when this car comes, habis nobody wants to buy City etc – where they’re making huge margins.
Honda Mobilio can kill Ugly Avanza.
didnt dr M say that the accord based perdana wd be the last of the honda collaboration???
The sight of another new honda model… sure send shivers down the spines of toyota salemen…
Damn. Proton is going to the cheap car route again. Everything will be basic and cheap except the price.
IS THE BLM REPLACEMENT TESTING, leh..
NEW SAGA USNIGN BRIO CHASSIS
so confirm is the saga chassis using brio then? eh?
some of the dealer told me is using brio as replacement model
IS THE BLM REPLACEMENT TESTING,
Brio Chassis confirm liao!!
Some proton dealer said proton inform them is using the brio chassis for new saga..
I guess the new persona will the old city chassis then if is like that
Cause the new perdana is using the accord chassis
Saga=Brio Chassis
Perdana=Accord Chassis
Persona=City Chassis??
anyone noticed that the door shape of the Iriz and Brio are almost identical
Hai ya, u olls..read the article carefully lah before giving comments. It was said both of the Honda models are being used as REFERENCE! The Proton JV is still with Suzuki.
They don’t read the contentof articles, they just read title and pic..
Finally…
But, Brio in the picture could be a stripped down spec. It lacks rear wiper, unlike Indonesia & Thailand.
When I saw the photo, I immediately thought “Proton’s benchmarking maybe ?”. And the trade plate confirms it, great work guys.
The Mobilio is actually the MPV version of the Brio, and seeing that Proton had previously benchmarked the Iriz against the Brio, could Proton be benchmarking an ‘Iriz MPV’ against the Mobilio ? Time will tell.
Indon sudah pakai lama baru mau launch di Malaysia. Kita selalu di belakang Indonesia dan Thailand utk model baru kereta dan motosikal.