It’s another set of spyshots of the 2016 Proton Saga, this time courtesy of reader Sean Yeoh. However, the national carmaker’s smallest, cheapest car now appears to have been benchmarked next to the Honda Brio Amaze, hinting at ambitions to challenge Honda’s global budget sedan.
As before, this development mule wears a touch less camouflage, showing the more three-dimensional tail lights, a new fog light in the bumper and the more steeply raked shoulder line – incorporating the new Iriz-style door handles. Also seen is the C-pillar window line kink that differs from the current car‘s straight slope.
Although only the rear has been caught in these photos, the front of the car was seen in another photo that surfaced online earlier in the week, revealing reshaped headlights, a new dual-bar grille and a reprofiled front bumper. Also expected are larger changes to the interior, revamping the Savvy-era cabin of the current car.
Technical details remain scarce right now, but the Saga could launch with the Iriz’s 1.3 litre VVT engine and a choice of a five-speed manual or a CVT. Proton’s new naturally-aspirated 1.0 litre and 1.2 litre three-cylinder engines may also make an appearance further down the line – these mills are slated to begin production by the end of 2017 – while a turbocharged version of the 1.0 litre engine could also feature.
Aside from the Saga, the new 2016 Proton Perdana was also seen tested – it shouldn’t be long now before the flagship D-segment sedan is launched, seeing as the order books have already been opened.
To much anticipation will lead to disappointment.
OMG…looking forward Honda to take 2nd spot of overall car sales in 2016…Bye bye P1
OMG…looking forward p1 to take 1st spot of overall car sales in 2017…Bye bye Jepunis
Perodua is currently training their dealers for the launch of new 1.5 sedan. Can Proton beat them to it ? Or repeat of the Myvi / Savvy and Axia / Iriz history. Proton always 1 month behind and fail miserably… time and customers wont wait for you anymore Proton…
Axia Sedan easily can get 100K sales per year and it is a big problem for both Perodua and Proton but actually have simple win-win solution:
– Proton either rent or sell off its half empty factory to Perodua.
#1JutaAxiaSedan
#KipidapPerodua
#DongidapPerodua
OMG…wake up lah…Now the P2 sales is double P1 sales, wanna be no.1…Dreaming lah P1 fanboys.
Because it is cheaper, not bcoz of good
Badan besar, tayar kecik.
Kasi can kite modify sndri guna 205
Prolly lower variant with smaller tyred. You dun read kah?
Agree..
Proton been doing this for quite sometime but i dont feel it drives the sale!
Good luck to Proton new CEO bean counter accountant. Just launch Saga no more teaser.
Sack the designer.
Bimmer designers are more worth to be sacked
The original car designer was probably some Korean guy in Hyundai/Kia 20 years ago, so why sack him. What P1 has are just tinkerers and facelifters of this very old design.
Remember those masked ‘Exora’ being benchmark/compare along with Toyota Wish?
End up only the size is bigger, failed everything else.
Century sprint exora wins
Space exora wins
FC exora wins
Drivebility and handling exora wins
Exora winrar liao lor
Just look at the difference, one look and you know the Honda is way better design & quality than potong turd ….close shop potong !!!
WAHHH! Ur eyes so sharp can see at blurry photos, thru news paper camo, pass dark tinting, and deduce that it is alredi lousier than the brio.
Ur eyes must be sharper than Superman. Probably can see thru clothing too. KYAAA!
Just look at the difference, one look and you know the p1 is way better design & quality than honta turd ….close shop honda !!!
Shut up lah, copy cat!
OMG…the new saga copy H.Brio Amaze? yucksss…
H.Brio copy Vios? yucksssss
Dream on to reach the sales target that was pointed out by Tun for this year, it is already almost end of march, where is the Perdana touted to be launched by March, some more, these two car are still on their endless testing run… proton are only good at giving spy shots only… went to proton showroom recently, nobody put booking fee for perdana yet.. according to salesman, nobody wants to because they are putting a booking fee on something that are not there, not the price, not even the picture of the car, only hint, bit and pieces of the car, come on proton, you brand is not strong enough to pull out this kind of stunt, launch it already la… people are sick of these spyshots already….
wah what a die hard fan of proton. You really cant wait for the model launching? You really that desperate? wow. never see ppl like this that really looking forward for proton new model launching. haha.
last time, proton iris side by side Honda Jazz.. then end up which model bigger in real?
Hoi Iriz sales is better than Honda jazz.
Malaysia ke atau worldwide? Kalau Malaysia saja… Jaguh kampung la ni
Nobody said iriz is sold worldwide.
Iriz now has break out sales better than those stupid rumors by P2 salesman. More Iriz now seen day by day on the road.
I thought the Brio Amaze was ugly….until I saw the Saga.
I thought the Brio Amaze was ugly….until I saw your recond F30 316.
Ya support.
Recond car where put face
Funny how Brio Amaze being used as benchmark by Proton but not allowed for sale here. So paranoid even under same group DRB.
Honda oso paraniod only allows thousands unit of accordana for sale
I’m a bit worried about the fuel consumption. Current Saga 1.3 consumption of fuel rivals cars that use 2.0 engine, makes me wonder what will happen when it uses the 1.0 and 1.2 3-cylinder engine.
Friend if you mention on PROTON CVT yes you’re right… but don’t forget Proton MT are good with fuel-efficient.
Clearly you dun understand to count FC, lol
1.3l saga rival 2.0l engine? Even 2.0l japs engine drinks fuel much more like lembu minum air than 1.6l campro turbo.
lolololololololloololololol
Campro engine dont use direct injection. The fuel is injected at the port. Multi port injection is not as efficient as direct injection. Thats why the fuel consumption of saga is sometimes more than 2.0 engine with direct injection. If u compare it with mazda 2.0 skyactiv which has unique direct injection, high compression ratio, etc, it is only logical to say campro 1.3 will use more fuel than skyactiv 2.0
wat a dump statement.
you just not comparing head to jead like that. be in numbers and fact
Direct injection cant save much fuel. If hybrid then yes it can. E300 vs kanciul
That 1.6L campro turbo bocor, confirm drink less fuel since it is dead.
Proton not only high FC (fuel consumption), also high FC (failure count).
1.6l CFE drinks lesser fuel than 2.0l jepunis while having more power
That’s ady past stories, Iriz is more efficient and much much much safer than Vios
support loler, 2.0l toyojapan car unbelievable than my 1.6 tubro charge. foudn last week, another things, 1.6 turbo exora much2 enjoying and comfort than brand new 6 month old ToyoPrius handling @ medium speed. another tipu by toyocar. also noisy weatherstrip doortrim both rear doors. stupid how Toyocar could shut their fan mouth towards this problem??
Will it still use the rough & unrefined Campro engine?
No. It shud be using 1.3 VVT now
Same campro la.. Campro with vvt.. But still use cvt punch powertrain i think.. Never learn from the pass
Meanwhile Vios still using outdated ancient engine 1nz-fe paired with ancient gearbox 4 speed.
Even kimchi modern Kia Rio also 4 speed auto.
Anyway it is funny that ancient gearbox 4 speed has better reliability and efficiency than ‘hi kampung-tech’ CVT.
Vios is not that save but Iriz, every else oso fails
Compare with iriz, similar weight, more safety, got VVT and more efficient than Vios.
Hmm…pass or past aa do you mean?
Still a crap engine mated with jerky gearbox.
Moving coffin safety with archaic engine and gearbox much better
Clearly you never drive one
saga tail lamp macam brio amaze
Saga tail lamp like lembu
The only anticipation for Proton fans is the price of the car…all else is secondary matter. Those who don’t like Proton will never buy. The well to do will likely buy one to use when they want to avoid attention. So better for Proton to work on trade in for loyal owners as they will likely see more sales than trying to sell to ppl who dislike the brand.
Work hard and buy Honda City.
Why just city? Go for bentley lor, baru ada keras
City is crap. Work hard and get the Vios instead. Beats City hands down in all aspects
Includes can fly, wowwwww
Give existing saga owners kow kow discount for them to buy new saga for children, etc, under loyalty program. Forget about getting new customers. P1 is past tense.
Ford toyota kia VW oso got discount gao gao, why no bash? Coz not p1? Come on
So you are jepunis cars worshipper?
Even airbags cannot get it right how to get good sales
stop putting little wheels on ur cars proton!!
Meanwhile the handling is still superb!
Proton, even if you put your cars against a BMW i8, Tesla S or a Bugatti Chiron, we all know that it still gonna be a carbage because of that maCAMtakPRO engine.
If you ever think about their price, you’ll soon realise that the above comparison is “carbage”.
1.5 TGDi proton 180hp 250nm is coming guyss . Kepish kepish. Dont get shock seeing proton pass by you at 220kmh later
Clearly you never drive p1, campro is not that bad.
Wah nowadays p1 compared to BMW, no Toyota or jepunis mentioned coz too shabby
Proton definitely wins and champion among car manufacturers in the world for putting up the most spyshots in the web.
if the car is nice nevermind, but the car looks pretty ugly oredi…..
So this is p1 blog?
This is not p1 blog lor
I thought perdana is launching end of Q1? In 1 week time… We are in Q2 already. Lying again, Proton?
Anyone here know how to pronounce SAGA in proper English? It’s ‘Say-Gay’
Jokes aside, I hope it’ll turn out to be better than anticipated.
That means ur grasp of english vocab is still elementary. Saga is also an english word by itself.
Honda Brio not selling here, and Proton Saga can’t sell oversea, challenge what?
come on support the malaysian car!!!. Easy to ride, no problem of spare part, never ever recall after sales rather than many car like civic, vw, ferrari etc.