The refreshed 2018 Proton Preve has quietly appeared on Proton’s official website, as spotted by reader Dylan Ch’ng. This means that the updated C-segment sedan will either be launched soon or has already gone on sale, as was the case with the also-updated Exora MPV last year.
Available in just two variants, the new Preve will be priced at RM64,730 for the 1.6 Executive CVT and RM72,510 for the 1.6 Premium CVT – increases of RM4,120 and RM1,193 respectively. All prices are on-the-road without insurance, inclusive of a five-year/150,000 km warranty.
Both models will be powered by a 1.6 litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine making 138 hp at 5,000 rpm and 205 Nm from 2,000 to 4,000 rpm, paired to a CVT with a simulated seven-speed mode. Unfortunately for those of you who’d like to row your own gears, the naturally-aspirated manual variant has been dropped for the new model year.
According to an internal presentation that was leaked earlier in the year, the new Preve will also come with a litany of tweaks to reduce the car’s noise vibration and harshness. New engine and transmission mountings, pillar fillings and carpeting have been installed to improve refinement, and there have also been changes to eliminate wind noise and air-conditioner hissing.
Other changes include more compliant tyres for the 16-inch wheel option, a new gearknob garnish, improved radio reception and new fishnet-type floor mats. The new Preve is also expected to feature powertrain updates introduced on the Iriz and Exora last year, including a remapped engine control unit (ECU) and transmission control unit (TCU) for a quicker, more linear response, as well as a quieter exhaust system.
Visually, changes are expected to be limited to colour and trim, as seen on prototypes in earlier spyshots. There will be a blacked-out grille and bootlid garnish, along with new three-dimensional Proton badging. The Premium model also receives a black roof and wing mirrors for a two-tone finish as seen on the latest Iriz, as well as new 17-inch two-tone alloy wheels.
Standard kit includes projector halogen headlights with follow-me-home lighting, front and rear fog lights, a driver’s side auto up/down window with anti-pinch and a standard radio/CD head unit with Bluetooth, USB and AUX-in connectivity. As before, all models get six airbags, ABS with EBD and brake assist, stability control, active front headrests and ISOFIX rear child seat anchors.
The Premium model piles on the kit, equipped with LED daytime running lights, push-button start (still no keyless entry, however), single-zone automatic climate control, a touchscreen navigation system, automatic headlights and wipers, cruise control, auto-folding wing mirrors, paddle shifters and tinted windows.
Buyers can choose from five colours, including the new Ruby Red (from the Perdana), Carnelian Brown (from the Persona) and Graphite Grey (previously Silver Moon Dust, from the Iriz), as well as Sterling Silver and Cotton White.
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that old 1.6 turbo thou~~ 138hp so less~~~
Low presure turbo tho, but torque is 205nm! Just good enough to accelerate & low cost turbo maintainance..
New Proton Preve fleet for govt agencies & co.
Dun know pulak if most P1 cars on road are belong to gomen. That’s crazy
Topkek
There is something very wrong with the drive train of the Preve, Suprima, Exora and Iriz. The Engine and Transmission just dont match… It behaves very oddly in town use and the engine is noisy. Those who owns it will know what I mean.
Yes sir. You are right. Tp proton tak mahu dgr ckp pengguna spt you, saya dan ramai lg. So, saya switch aje ke company lain. Settle.
Be patriotic guys, Be patriotic..
you are not wrong to say that.. hope collaboration with Geely will bring in a new generation of modern powertrains to Malaysian consumers.
….Said underpower myvi driver and p2 SA
But you gotta admit it’s fun to drive around with just as long as you turn up the music volume ( currently using Proton Preve iafm+)
no, just par with some variants of Mitsu’s 4G61T engine (135-145bhp).
65k reasonable price. Upgrading frm my City 1.5
glorified kereta polis..
Kereta polis in the highways are mostly inspira. I hardly see any kereta polis preve anymore.
Preve is mainly used by other police departments especially Jabatan Polis Jenayah
Zero design innovation. Such a disappointment by proton.
This is just a REFRESH. What didja expect?
If no money for total revamp then Proton should just redesign a bit the rear lights like Audi, that’s all.
Everything is great except the engine… It would have been better to have dropped the turbo engine and just used the Iafm+ mill on both versions… We have a 2014 Preve Executive Iafm+ CVT at home and it has been a problem-free ownership experience so far. Besides being slightly sluggish, the car is almost perfect in every other way… It is only the Cfe engine Preves that are plagued with issues and have horrendous fuel consumption figures… We got our Iafm Cvt Preve for below 60k at that time.. Unbeateable value for a mid-size sedan with 6 airbags, Esc and a 5-star Ancap rating..!! :)
Just a liar. Iafm with cvt??
with the weight of car 1300kg, its need 1.8 NA engine tho.. 1.6 campro iafm not power enough tho.. but campro have no 1.8 engine.. hahah!
You never have 205Nm torquey driving before?
You dun need to push pedal hard, unlike those junky jepunis cars
turbo mill producing only 205nm? lol my junky jepunis NA pushes 10nm more than that..pathetic cfe
Pushes more? At what RPM? 4000RPM?
That’s seeeeloooowwwwwwww
205nm is cfe campro engine. Iafm campro is just 150nm. Bad accelaration for 1300kg car..
You dun read kah? No iafm normal 1.6l, only Turbo with CVT
Refer justin comment bro caveman
Who cares the past is past, now no iafm 1.6
Yawn. Same old crap with some new kit. Same crap gearbox and engine that drinks petrol like no tomorrow.
If follow your logic, then even myvi has crap gearbox and engine, cannot even get 14.5km/l
Myvi good FC, only if mated with manual (but have to live with it’s ‘crap’ and rubbery gearbox). Myvi auto, HarrkkTuii (i rather torture myself driving a manual than driving any cheap local junks with auto gearbox)
why still halogen~~~???
That is bcos P1 do not invest in Led headlights. They think M’sian don’t have taste. Lets hope Geely will introduce Led in Future Protons.
hid would be decent enough tbh
Cost. It’ll easily add thousands to a car price, and what do you get for it? HIDs and especially LEDs are more complex to integrate, as each have their own issues. They are also not really a necessity. They are brighter for less power, but are you actually struggling to see in the dark with halogen? They consume much less power and may save fuel, but that benefit is only at night and minor at best. They last much longer, but how many of us here change our light bulbs before we replace our cars?
They will become standard fittings in every car no matter the budget one of these days, but for now if buyers want HIDs or LEDs on a budget car, turn to aftermarket parts.
I’m wishing that this is a farewell update and that this car can finally be discontinued eventually for something a lot better.
A preferred replacement would be using the Geely Emgrand GL platform and components but with a new, completely unique exterior design. Proton can save time on developing the car completely from scratch whilst having some creative input that doesn’t take too long to become a final product.
Hmmm… its hard to sell dinosours these days, especially with that pricing…
Well, the gomen is their biggest costumer now, so they will be good i guess…
Meanwhile PT repoted that 97.5% of buyers r from end retail customers.
That’s mean gomen oso dont want proton. Ohwai.
Saw 1 in Kuching…. bigger rim… single tone. Black roof…. black bars boot garnishes…
Preve was a failed model. Instead of spending so much of money to revive it, isn’t better to just close the line?
It can save Proton about RM1 million is losses per day just closing one line.
Even Proton CEO said, 75% of Proton’s sales come from Saga and Persona. You can also assume that the remaining 25%, bulk of it is the Government ordered Perdanas.
Preve line just waste of money for the Proton factory. It does not make Proton a sen also.
Kunta Kinte, Bhagawan Singh, Abdul Kadeer, Fanny Chiew, and whatever name you are trolling with, we all know you’re the same person.
You must have been a very successful person if you use your energy, time and effort into something useful in life. Sadly, you waste so much time trolling in Paultan site with hundreds of thumbs uping your own comment, splling the same shit again and again. If you wanna troll, troll more professionally. Even a primary school kid can easily identify your style of writing, in whatever nick name you put up. And those astronomical thumbs up you give yourself with by refreshing pages after pages doesn’t do justice to make your troll looks convincing either. Try harder.
john, tokmoh, basherlogic, notakata and all the hundreds of dupes……pls keep this blog clean. We all have no time for your dupes and kunta dupes in this blog
I’m pretty sure tokmoh is long time paultan commenter
i dont believe tokmoh ever used dupes . are you telling lies here ?
I bought a preve executive in year 2012. This car is giving me endless problem. Very poor quality
Proton? I rather choose Perodua. Proton = low quality.
Poodua = cut corner master. Can simply remove water temperature gauge (most prominent example is new myvi). Maybe they like your car engine get condemned or even burned down due to unnoticeable overheating situation which otherwise can be saved if it’s detected early (by abnormal high level of temperature meter reading)
At that price, the only reason the Preve is sold is because Proton’s loan approval is very relaxed.
The very last of Proton indigenous car. Definitely gonna buy one for own collection.
Too expensive! Should be priced below RM50k.
Also cvt is definitely a no no.
Still no leather seats despite the price increase? Thats just pathetic.
Actually, I’ve seen multiple different cars in different hues in COSE since two months ago. One of them is even registered.
Pleease put the fog-lights on the lower bumper and not in both the taillight housing, I’am bagging you.
Gearbox kereta ini paling menakutkan…. Tekan sikit Tak Jalan … Tekan banyak terus lompat ke depan. Reverse gear lagi dahsyat.. Sangat bahaya. Saya jual lepas 2 tahun.
Bukan saja proton preve , perodua alza sama juga.
(Like) Proton Preve
(Dislike) VW Vento
Vento B segment.. but much expensive than junk preve.. Better buy B segment Vento 1.2 TSI than Junk C segment Preve 1.6 CFE..
Vento not spacy, higher maintenance, no-no DSG gearbox and lower RV
But why? When those vios shine their foglamps at Preve drivers, then the Preve can go ahead and shine their fogs ngam ngam at those vios drivers. Let them eat their medicine.
So because of Vioses and only the Vios have dual foglights (which are better placed low down on the bumper, cany be confuse with brake lights) that Preve drivers are to show of their egoistical superiority and do the same. And ultimately annoy the rest of the otherwise innocent and safety cauntious road users?
Seems legit from someone who previously mentioned cares for peoples safety.
If not for PDRM ordering the Proton Preves, Proton will have near ZERO sales on their Preve. Public hardly buys Preve after hearing that it guzzles petrol like mad
Better ride n handling than Civic 1.5tc
Civic 1.5T more fc..
CEO Mr. Li Chun Rong, ur Proton Preve until now also no key less entry technology and still continue using the failed CFE engine. Such a shame for local C segment car ever produced. Pls la..atleast add on the GPOWER engine power plant or newly develop Ricardo engine and reliable transmission and mostly important is hire the new interior designer to redesign the cabin and dashboard on ur facelift Preve. Pls listen from consumer feedback, dun built it for syok sendiri… pls pls pls.
Some just refuse to read. Why???
https://paultan.org/2017/06/05/2017-proton-iriz-officially-launched-in-malaysia/
P1 has the tech but preve is too old to retrofit it unless spend money. Why? Can wait for new model to come what.
Cant tell the different.
Much of the improvement in NVH. Not visible.
No row gear no buy. Keep money for other things.
What?!!! No keyless entry? WTH?!!!! How to sale well? Who wanna buy?
Do you know that cars with keyless entry are even easier to be stolen now eventhough it is an uptrend feature now? Pls upsate yourself with latest infos.
For proton, I would prefer no keyless entry unless they adopt new keyless technology from german then it would be safe enough.
Premium have reverse camera?
These proton cars could be sold at 60% of their current prices to Malaysians if the supply chain is properly managed and no money gets leaked into anyone’s pockets!
It might be too late for now but it should have at least offer a manual gearbox for turbocharged preve and suprima.
I kind of like your idea but nowadays the trend of automatic transmission has become a “suck it up” options from many car manufacturers in the name of efficiency. Actually I missed the three pedals. Even modern supercars ditched manual transmission.
Manual? hahahahahaha!
Such minor changes are not even worth to be mentioned. This is actually worse than Toyota’s “updates” or “facelift”. What happened to Geely? Why didn’t they scrap such implementation?
ToyotaP2 “facelift” only intro new colour scheme wor…
And tutup tonggek.
You must be really desperate when even small things like a new cap with ring for the washer tank is highlighted as an improvement.
When you got wrong priority like spending money on unimportant models like perdana instead of properly facelifting your bread and butter preve and iriz. How would people be excited to buy the preve when you can’t even spend a few hundred thousand on a soft tooling (your volume is so low your soft tooling wont even wear out) for a new bumper? Even axia has a facelift after just 2 years.
Actually I’ve seen this 2018 version of Proton Preve numerous times. But owned by the police force. None of us are aware that Proton has already rolled out the production for 2018 Preve. Looks good but I’ve already owned the 2013 version that still has the CFE badge.
Wished that they install a revised engine technology or a new ones so that Preve could be on par with Honda Civic tc and Hyundai Elantra Sport.
It would be nice if Preve equipped with more powerful engine that comes with better gearbox, refined performance, better build, then we could be better or on par with other brand in this C-segment cars.
I wanna buy refinement Suprima S, hope have keyless entry like Iriz one.. if still slot in key fob.. nope.. Will go for Vento 1.2 tsi..
That Vento 1.2 TSI doesn’t have keyless entry, either.
Despite this Preve is Bigger & supposedly more powerful & safer, most M’sian will still buy a smaller but more reliable Myvi. Why john why ??!!
This sentence will make john cry
This facelifted model is about NVH am i right? So the logo is not about tiger with open mouth, how about proton makes the tiger mouth shut?
Bezza looks even better than this…
Please proton check your calendar
Bezza look disproportionate, it looks high and tall but narrow
But better build quality than proton..
Perodua win at quality product, but lose at performance.?
Proton win at performance, but fail at quality, imagine proton car with perodua engine & cvt toyota.. perfect car for malaysian..
Those engine and gearbox are sluggish, dun even need review, I mean myvi
P2 SA so worry hahahaha..oh what quality it has? Frugal? Nope. Reliable? Nope. It is not same with jepunis passo, malu betul
P2 SA worry?..about what?..too much sales?..
ever wonder why p1 so hard to sell???despite having your so called “good quality”
LOL
Campro engine far sluggish than dual vvti.. ahaks!
Oh no, they start to tell everyone that the purpose of dual vvti is to make car faster like turbo!
Hahahaha!
Campro vvt? Eev engine? No. Powerful engine? No.. Hybrid? No. So what kind of engine is campro?
full spec now comes with leather seat meehhh,,and the 17 inch only silver colour,, not the two tone one
A switch to a reliable cvt would be better. And the present headlights are just not bright enough.
its 2018 already. why is this car still here. we have enough police cars running around.
Alpad / hell fire = jepunis taxi
This model is a failure. Get over it. Doing the same thing again and again won’t change the result.
Pipu buy P2 coz it is cheap not because it is good
The graphics show that the car has 18” rim. In real life much smaller.
I have been using proton preve since Feb 2013.. positive : well equipped car, smooth, comfortable , no major problems thus far with the exception of wear and tear. negative: noisy and petrol consumption is not at par(at all) with cars of the same class. Would it consider buying proton again: definitely as they have improved tremendously.. more to come..
Wow they waited 6 years to do this when it shud be done before it was even introduced. Great job Proton
Hmmm this is indeed ironic! After squeezing 30% from vendors, the new owner of Proton still increases its car price.
Here’s an idea Proton, put a 1.8L engine with 6-speed auto. Not that hard.
lepastu ade pulak yang cakap 1.8 roadtax mahal…
Setakat livina 1.8l tu makan asap exora turbo la
the car represents great value actually, and is a good size. the biggest problem is, it is not as refined as it can be. powertrain wise, as well as the overall design both in and out.. there are many things when examined closely, come across as unresolved. the preve could have been so much more. I guess we will have to wait for a new replacement thru protons collaboration with Geely to solve the issues the preve had.
When I was in the market for 50k-70k car last year, I bought a 5AT. If only preve using conventional torque converter …..