Many were shocked by the new 2018 Perodua Myvi‘s initial specs that was revealed this morning. Unsurprisingly, as the third-generation Myvi will come with LED headlamps and keyless entry with push start as standard across the board. The former is as seen on the top Honda Civic FC and the latter isn’t a given on some German premium cars costing a few times more.
UPDATE: Perodua has opened online registration of interest for the new Myvi, click here for more.
Eye-catching features aside, safety has been boosted many times over, and Perodua is targeting a five-star rating from ASEAN NCAP. The 1.3 litre variants get four airbags (front and side) as standard, along with ABS, EBD and Vehicle Stability Control (VSC). That’s very decent on a Myvi starting from RM44k, but the 1.5 litre variants add on curtain airbags to make it six airbags in total. The top 1.5 Advance debuts Advanced Safety Assist (ASA).
ASA is a suite of active safety features that includes Pre-Collision Warning (PCW), Pre-Collision Braking (PCB), Front Departure Alert (FDA) and Pedal Misoperation Control (PMC). It’s not wrong to think of ASA as a “lite” version of Honda Sensing, recently introduced by Honda on the top versions of the CR-V and Accord.
The ASA components are existing Daihatsu systems (called Smart Assist in JDM Daihatsus) and they operate through a forward-facing stereo camera on the top of the windscreen, which detects car shapes. Daihatsu calls SA an “advanced crash-avoidance assist system”, but warns that SA assumes safe driving on the customer’s part, and that one should not rely on the system but to drive safe.
Pre-Collision Warning and Pre-Collision Braking
Pre-Collision Warning warns you when a collision is about to happen, sounding a buzz two seconds before an impending crash. It works between 4 and 30 km/h. Should the driver not respond to PCW’s audio visual warning (by braking or steering away), Pre-Collision Braking takes over by automatically braking the car.
More popularly know as autonomous emergency braking (AEB), Pre-Collision Braking works in two stages – soft braking 1.3 seconds before the crash and hard braking 0.8 seconds before impact. In real life, you’ll just feel one violent stop. If the original speed is around or below 20 km/h, a crash can be avoided completely. If one was travelling between 20-30 km/h, damage can be reduced.
Front Departure Alert
Set to be deployed more often is Front Departure Alert, which as its name suggests, alerts you when the car in front has departed in a traffic jam or queue. Most drivers grab their phones in a queue, so FDA’s buzzer will save you from being honked by the car behind once the lights turn green. FDA is activated once you get within 10 metres of the car in front. Once in line, the buzzer will sound if the gap exceeds three metres and the driver fails to react.
Pedal Misoperation Control
Lastly, Pedal Misoperation Control detects a wall in front (within four metres), and will not allow the car to accelerate forward. Engine output control will continue for up to eight seconds.
PMC is useful to prevent the accidental stepping of the wrong pedal (gas instead of brakes) in parking situations, which can cause much damage. Before you snigger, these things do happen, and senior drivers are a main contributor to accident statistics in ageing populations such as Japan.
Just like with all technology, there are limitations. The stereo camera detects car shapes and there must be a minimum of 60% overlap for the functions to work. The field of vision is 40 degrees horizontal and 20 degrees vertical, and the image is 1280 x 960 pixels. It can see up to 60 metres ahead. The cameras function as a pair of eyes would, and if vision is obscured by heavy rain or fog, it won’t detect well.
By the way, the new Myvi is the only car below RM100k to have active safety features such as these, never mind in the B-segment or the national car market. The next cheapest cars to have AEB are the Hyundai Ioniq (RM114k), high-spec Mazda 3 (RM125k) and high-spec Peugeot 308 (RM128k).
ASA is of course not the most advanced of its kind, this being a RM55k car, but it should be very useful in avoiding or reducing the risk of fender benders in urban driving, which is painful to the wallet and a hassle to fix. What say you? Click here for the full story on the new Myvi.
Is the manual transmission smooth, slick or notchy and has a long throw?
This safety feature should be retrofitted to proton cars becoz even now Waja limo teksi driver would open his door to pay instead of using power window when stop at toll booth. Atleast the car confirm stop stationary and wont move forward.
rather than buying an iphone or samsung, one can buy much cheaper china phones with good enough specs. but do they last? is the quality similar? NOPE. so let’s get some benchmarking between what this car is offering and what the more expensive cars are offering.
Tell that to proton, Asia’s BMW that is officially a Chinese product.
where do you think your iphone is made?
Thank you Myvi, thank you UMW and thank you Toyota for giving Myvi so many safety features.
Thank you Daihatsu and Toyota for caring for Malaysians
Indeed Perodua, Daihatsu and Toyota are the BEST!!!!!
Yes they do last, Oneplus 5
Huawei p10 , Mate 10 really good phone from China ;D
Lots of parts in cars now made in China,
Even iPhone made in China
today china smartphone as good as iphone and samsung interm of quality, spec and experience. Huawei, OPPO, Oneplus, MI, Vivo etc
TuneD bodykit please! Perfect car ever!
Since this car is so safe, I suggest to Malaysian Government replace all their Proton cars with Perodua cars for safety sake.
Also, it is a way to reward Perodua. Perodua, without any Government orders, can do so well.
Proton, with so many Government orders, still can be losing RM4 million per day.
Not really
wish to see this car crash in highway with 110km/h.
see how those sensing able to help.
ready for kemek.
P2 should improve their basic safety before adding those that only nice to see, but not really saving life on high speed crash.
pls read sensing feature before comment lah… don’t comment like an idiot without knowing how the sensing work. any car crash at 110km sure gone case even if it is a Ferrari. think before u write lah, have some common sense
Wow, such gadgets and safety gizmo are only in the Volvo XC90. Now, with just a mere RM50k, I also can get all this safety gizmos.
No need to spend RM400k on a XC90.
Perodua has done well!
Bravo! Comparing XC90 with Myvi. Well done.
showing how well equipped is the Myvi Mk.III
lol this amount of safety features in the 2018 myvi is barely a quarter to the amount of safety features in the XC90. But I applaud Perodua for the move nonetheless since other cars with higher price point don’t even have AEB.
how much xc90 vs myvi? why don’t we compare xc90 with m1a1 tank see who has better safety features…
Actually, MyVi uses camera only. About similar to Nissan with their Serena. Volvo, Merc, and some others use camera AND radar. One more thing, there is no Adaptive Cruise Control. The auto braking is similar to Volvo City Safety that works only up to 30 km/h. However, good move Perodua. You are now better than Proton in terms of safety gadgets.
I rather buy a Myvi than an Iriz.
Both cars RM50k, but after 1 year, the Myvi is still RM45k whilst the Iriz RV is RM28k
No amount of safety features can compensate for bad driving skills and attitude
Saga still got no VSC
So the PMC only works if the car goes forward. What about reverse? Is it working or not because both moving forward and reversing can cause pedal misoperate.
If you reverse @50 km/h then you need that kind of safety
In what situation would you hit 50kmh in reverse gear? Other than cop chase I could not think of any possibility like seriously.
Yeah, they will update the car and add the PMC for rear in few months after sold 10k units.
Later modders and Ah Bengs will find a way to putus ASA.
Hahah, I see what you did there. Putus Asa.
Just buy the low spec manual, dont have ASA duh….
Better buy myvi 2017 model, then change bodykit.
Instead, Ah Bengs would increase the performance of the ASA by putting another stereo camera side by side, therefore creating an 80 degree wide horizontal coverage field.
Paying more to get the top spec model with ASA then later paying more to disable the ASA. Great logic
Will the system autobrake and drive in traffic jams situation?
Kudos to Perodua for this huge improvement to the legendary Myvi. Let us hope everyone who owns the new Myvi understand and be smart to utilise the tech on this car.
No more chance to choos p2 again
Such advanced tech. Feels as if it is a Volvo. And only RM50k? Wow, this is the deal of the century.
Where are the sour grapes who always say Perodua don’t test their cars and their Biza is like a risk???
Now these people are all chickens and hiding.
Looks like Perodua car is like Volvo level of safety
Compare with volvo? Really immature…pfftt!!
Cringiest comment I’ve ever read. Yes it’s good, but it doesn’t have lane keeping assist, lane departure mitigation, blind spot sensors, etc.
take my loan goddamn it!!
Lite version or not, regardless its still a monumental leap in safety tech not only for the Myvi, but for the entire Malaysian Motor Industry. The Myvi is Perodua’s second best selling car, it itself can accounts for almost 3/4 of what Malaysian 2nd most popular brand, Honda, sells in its 8-model wide range. Its reputation have been etch into the modern Malaysian car culture and can stand with the Petronas Twin Tower and Nasi Lemak as a symbol of Malaysian urban culture.
Previously, the only reason you would invest more for a Honda Jazz, Nissan Almera or even a Persona/Preve was its frankly sub-standard safety kit, but with Perodua giving it 6-airbags in half its range and VSC in the entirety, any reason to top up RM10-RM30k for a equivalent B-segment rival is nullified. And to add insult to injury, active safety system thrown in, AT RM55k!!! Yes! Its not the most advance system in the market, but its not up againts RM350k Volvo, its up againts the largest pie of Malaysian automotive market, the sub-RM100k scene. This pushes almost every other car maker in the Malaysian scene to seriously step up its game, to me its seriously a game changer.
With this, Perodua not only cemented itself as the overall Tour De Force in the Malaysian automotive market, it rules it with absolute authority.
one should expect the next gen city and vios to come with active safety package as well
Currently holding out for the next gen Jazz/City to see what it can offer, also for Honda to ironed out its impressive but sceptical Sports Hybrid system. Looking at the Civic/CRV I can only expect good thing, who knows maybe Honda sensing in the next gen or maybe even a late update like the Accord. Honda US and Japan have Honda sensing on their little Fit(Jazz in our lingo) and HM may hurry its implementation or force out of the competition entirely.
do not mention the word game-changer here. it upsets the ppl at proton. bcoz game not changed.
2 years after the Iriz was launched, the Vios and City received updates that includes ESC in all variants and now 3 years later this new Myvi has that as well.
Give credit where credit is due. Safety in compact cars were either non-existent or only reserved for top variants prior to Iriz launch so in a way, it did somewhat change the game for small cars.
Kudos Perodua for the advanced safety features at an affordable price.
My only complaint is, why keep using 4 speed AT gearbox? At least give 6 speed AT or CVT lah.
This is just a 900kg 1500cc hatchback, 4at is lighter and cheaper to built. In long run it was more reliable than cvt.
CVT lesser components lor
4AT reliable because is old tech, P2 no dare to use new tech.
who cares 4 speed auto or cvt. previous vios use that 4 speed auto for a long time still minyak banyak jimat and they sold like hot cake.
who whould’ve expect we will be mentioning Perodua from now on when it comes to buying safe cars
You obviously know nothing about cars. While i applaud perodua for fitting it in the myvi, most of the features are already available in other competing cars. It’s just that manufacturers choose not to fit it here as it is not a requirement by our government.
And pls don’t compare the safety features of the myvi to the Volvo. You end up looking like a fool.
you missed the point of this article entirely
We are talking about Malaysia here, not other countries. So it is spectacular that you can get active safety systems in a car that cost RM55K. This will cause other brands here in malaysia to implement active safety systems in their cars in order to keep up.
Stop comparing with Volvo. The material alone ie percentage UHSS will tell you a whole lot story. Don’t be such a lame comparing of these two.
My best bet is that this would annihilate all other cars in its segment with that kind pof competitive pricing..
Nice info Danny.
Perodua’s AEB’s role in reducing the chance of collision at 20-30kmh seem reasonable in crawling traffic. BUT does this means that the AEB doesn’t work well in speeds 30-70kmh (usual speed during town driving)?
It’s only for Low speed.
The ASA’s camera’s detection range isn’t far enough to detect stopped objects to react in the given time for the system to stop the car.
Imagine your headlights on hi-beam and low-beam. You wont have enough time to react to an object going 100 on low-beam. But you may be able to react in time, if you manage to see the object using your hi-beams.
For higher speed AEB you need the longer range milliliter wave radar for longer range detection which are available on more expensive cars (the milliliter wave radar also provides adaptive cruise control and works at higher speeds)
That said, while the system may not be able to prevent a crash at higher speeds, at the very least it can reduce impact speeds to reduce damage.
This system isn’t meant for you to take your eyes off the road.
Higher speed AEB exists, but “City Safety” is a good start, we think.
Looking forward to new ALza with the same safety features..
Comparing Perodua Safety Suite to Volvo’s are just like comparing a mid-spec smartphone with the high-spec. Do you expect for a Samsung J5 camera to have the same quality and resolution to Samsung S8? Same goes here. No doubt to say this is a big leap for Perodua to introduce a car below RM60k with a safety suite. But to compare it with Volvo? Think again. But still, KUDOS for Perodua!
Useless la all that assist…the one most important assist is auto signal..drivers Ignoring signal stick is useless prick
Any chance improvement in passive safety too?
Stronger steel perhaps?
In the many collisions involving both Proton and Perodua cars, Perodua occupants came out worse.
Historically, the average Perodua has been significantly smaller/lighter than the average Proton. That was how the powers that be had hoped P2 would not steal P1 market share. All things being equal, the heavier vehicle will come out better in a head-on collision. For example if both cars are travelling head-on at 50kph each, a 750kg P2 Vivo crashing against a 1200kg P1 Persona will result in the immediate post-crash velocity of (say) minus 10kph for the Vivo (minus represents being pushed backwards by the greater forward momentum (mass x velocity) of the Persona). The Personal itself (and its occupants, assuming seat belts) immediately post-crash, moves forwards at 10kph. This results in a decrease in velocity of 50-10kph for the Persona, versus 50+10kph for the Vivo and its occupants resulting from the collision. Hence more damage (greater loss of momentum) on the Vivo. Think about it, this is why one wouldn’t want to crash head on into an Express bus (12,000kg), even if one was in a Volvo XC90 (2,100kg). And this is not even considering the aspect of the additional “crush space” that bigger vehicles inherently have.
Well main reason behind all those techs slammed into this P2 car, is a way Toyota (UMW) to beat Honda. But in different perspective, kudos to P2 for giving a big slap to P1 to step up their game. Regardless anything, we really need our local car makers to quickly adapt / use car technology for safer and better ride and of course with better looks. Coming up, SUV by P2.
If it looks leaps and bounds better than kembara, then im game. Else.. no thanks.
cool features…how does the overall car look like? same as before?
anyway, i think i go for this instead of honda city given the host of safety kits and the ‘low workmanship quality’ of honda city ^^
Camera based tech is inferior to LIDAR based. this is a cheaper low cost tech.
The only production car with LIDAR in the world right now is the new Audi A8 so you can’t expect a budget Myvi to use LIDAR.
Well done mr P2 CEO for getting the engine and tech from Toyota.
Now produced sportsback type body or sedan, bar price at 60k and see what happened for sub 100k segment.
Watch this space..hahaha
keta xboleh booking dulu ehh?….pagi td pegi perodua tampoi dia kata tunggu launch….
always a welcome move, shouldn’t we look forward for safer car always?
and reasonably priced car
paultan later should review effectiveness of those new safety features, and if it work as advertised then it could have save many innocent life
Too good to be true. I’m afraid too much marketing promises will backfire…
i hope Perodua can set a benchmark now for decently priced cars with such safety features on board.. no doubt it’s groundbreaking & eye opening indeed
With A.S.A offered on Myvi, I feeled conned.by Honda for paying above 170k CRV
As a foreigner, living here for 4 years, from the US.. im curious to know why myvis are held in such high regard. Honest question.
My limited experience riding in them a lot, never driving, they look cheap and are s**t to ride in. Someone used the term ‘legendary’. Really??
btw i love cars and have owned many (not here though).
Ride in the main alternative in the price segement, the Proton Saga nee 1984 Mitsubishi Colt, which the Malaysian public had to endure for nearly 20 years from 1985 and you’ll know why the Myvi (launched in 2005) is held is high regard. Its nearly bomb-proof Japanese running gear also promised, and delivered, reassuring reliability.
Its basically our Ford Model T, VW Beetle, Toyota Corolla in the sense its the people’s car due to the number the model sells. You see it everywhere appealing to a broad range of people. Every country has its equivalent.
length 4.2m
hiehgt1,4mm
width 1.76m,
that is the TRUE complete spec..
AWESOME!
Guna besi palsu boleh selamatkan orang kat tepi jalan.
So no radar? How well will it work without one?
After so much success with the Myvi over the years, i find myself disliking Perodua for the fact that they are stingy when it comes to safety. For me, safety shouldn’t be marketed but made mandatory. Come on, Everyone deserves safety..
That is also exactly the reason why i prefer Proton because despite their shortcomings they managed to improve when it comes to safety. The Persona/Iriz, Myvi’s direct competitor absolutely trumps the current Gen Myvi when it comes to safety.
But now, i’m impressed! Perodua might change that with the New Myvi. Not only does it includes safety features that brings it up to par with others (ESP,6airbags), but more(ASA system)! Proton and others better follow suit if they want to remain competitive.
Tonnes of safety features on the all-new Myvy are not functioning at “normal” speeds hence practically useless! Who needs safety features at stationary?
It’s sad that cars belonging to the 1600cc below range do not come with adaptive cruise features. All are 2.0 specs n above. And in Malaysia, the roads these days are jammed badly. Is it truly useful to drive above 1600cc cars? You’ll probably end up driving 10-40kmph on the road daily to work. Even our authority speed traps are working to catch any cars exceeding 90kmph speed which is stupid. Drivers probably overpaid for the specs that seldom useful on the road. It’s like butchering a chicken with a chainsaw.