DreamEdge, a Cyberjaya-based digital engineering services and consultancy company behind the New National Car Project (NNCP), has set up a teaser box with what appears to be a prototype of the “third national car.” This was showcased at the new Ministry of International Trade and Industry tower, an event which coincides with the NAP 2020 announcement.
The boxed car itself is draped in black cloth, revealing just one side of each headlight and tail lamp, and what clearly appears to be matte black paint. Much of the design seems generic at this point, but do let us know what you think of it.
The headlight itself features a long strip of LED daytime running light, a single projector lens, a separate high beam reflector panel, and what appears to be a bulb-type turn indicator. Judging by the outline of the chrome grille surrounds, we’d argue that the grille design will be rather sizeable.
Other notable design cues include subtle bumper contours, an integrated lower lip, plus another LED strip to replace the conventional fog lamps. The lower intake surrounds appear to be finished in gloss black, but there’s really not much we can go about with what’s shown here.
At the back, we can’t help but find the tail light design remarkably similar to the first-generation Audi A5, albeit featuring a distinct C-shaped LED graphics and several vertical strips. Lower down, there’s more black highlights, as well as an integrated reflector strip.’
One thing to note is that the car will be produced as a plus-sized B-segment sedan. Besides that, DreamEdge promises that it will be an all-rounded performer with emphasis on being “fun to drive,” family friendly, highly fuel efficient, and value for money. It will also get a “modern and futuristic styling, complete with up-to-date in-car connectivity functions, and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems.
As for the powertrain, previous reports suggest that the sedan will get either a regular internal combustion petrol engine or a hybrid powertrain. The design concept and development will be led by DreamEdge, with technology partner being Daihatsu – which confirmed its involvement in the project in October, with no equity involved – handling the development of the powertrain and providing the platform. It won’t be another Daihatsu rebadge, though.
We were told recently that a prototype of the first model will be shown in March this year, and a working prototype is due by mid this year. The final product is said to make its market debut a year later in March 2021, whereas production is set to take place in the first half of 2022. After that, the company plans to sell at least 3,000 units of the car a month in the first year of sales, which is rather ambitious.
Lastly, DreamEdge’s mission statement is to spur innovation and boost Malaysian participation in science, engineering and technology adoption. It will take on a tech-oriented approach in sales and after sales, and promises to transfer tech knowhow through the process of localisation, as well as enhance local R&D capabilities.
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It seems like quite nice looking car leh honestly…
hopefully lar, don’t disappoint us
Fun must then have TURBO!
Fun to drive must have high tech safety features and more features too.
TURBO is just for cheapskate ah bengs like civic drivers who never cared about fun driving and only know how to high beam people and go fast on highways that’s it
Well you ah beng stay off speed lane, STOP LANE HOGGING. why don’t u move when u see car coming through your rearview? U lane hogging, u blame other people beaming. We not gonna beam if u not lane hogging
Even when there’s no lane hogging because of massive amounts of cars in front going at slow speed, honda owners with low life mentality still wants to high beam ppl despite so many cars in front in the lane, that’s honda owner attitude problem not the lane hogger
Such a clean and futuristic design! DreamEdge together with Perodua will be the only Game-Changing national carmaker that we can be proud of since Proton is now 1/2 China carmaker
ur underwear even chine made
Someone say if Saga is 40% a Hyundai, that makes X70 a 90% Volvo. Well done Proton!
Oh no, it means it’s a failure because volvo has been failing all the time with the unreliable tech
Volvo have been voted COTY 2018 in Europe and Japan. Where were you all these years?
Stupidity at its finest lmao
i only see korean designing team again
Perodua 100% owned by Malaysian?
Check it out “Geely Emgrand”
The rear looks like Audi A4
To me, both the front and rear looks somewhat like the 1st gen Kia Forte.
I thought is fly car…
Flying car is 4th National Car
looks promising..
The marketing person that is doing this teasing must be the same person that does the ads for Proton Savvy “Wah, lucky I didn’t book the other car”. And it loses badly to Myvi.
Dunno. His style is more similar to that Bezza box teasing here and there but ultimately the car failed badly vs Saga.
Seriously no idea what Atok is thinking there.tough time like this still creating Pro3 for don’t know what reason.
It’s to feed us obviously. Remember who paid for PH campaign in GE14 and next GE15. he he he he he he…
Indeed it is a tough time. But this will create thousand of jobs in the long run. Local will have business to provide parts, and that creates more jobs. In return, they pay tax and so on. We have to create an industry to create more jobs.
How is it full Malaysian effort when it is based on a Daihatsu? That’s like telling us Perodua is a full Malaysian effort but clearly it was never that since the beginning.
It’s called Malaysian ‘effort’ for a reason, Not Malaysian ‘made’, effort here means they can source the tech from whoever they can to make the car usable and reliable, at least still better than the failed malaysian made campro tech that drinks fuel like water
If that is your definition, we can simply put in M’sian money but sourcing tech and workers from other countries also qualifies as “M’sian effort” lorr. How is this beneficial for M’sia? When talk about campro, we can still rpoudly call it a real M’sian effort and M’sian made. I can be proud of that, I don’t feel any pride in Dream edge thou.
Does look like a copy cat car but in this case, not bad at well. More competition, the better it is
This kind of ‘competition’ drives up prices, not reduce it like in free and open capitalist markets.
Not interested if it’s not a BEV or PHEV
The Panel Gap car.
“fun to drive” – what kind of lame tag line, is it twin turbo 300hp, 4wd, mid engine….. I dont thnk so.
300hp? ‘Fun’ here doesn’t mean fast or powerful
Lotus Elise dont have 300hp. No mid engine , no 4WD.. but yeah. Its fun to drive. Great in Sepang Circuit corners. So …
Wasting time and money. Thailand, Indonesia and even Vietnam are so far ahead with their industry friendly incentives.
walan eh! belakang macam audi A4 lama loh :)
Fun to drive than honda
This plus sized B-segment, better come with turbo if not hybrid for more torque, since it’s highly likely will come with small engine for better efficiency. Let see what this ‘P3’ could offer to us.
Its going to be another re-badge, what else.
I’m more concern with how much tax payer money is going into subsidising this “National Pride”
The brand DreamEdge sounds more appropriate for Gaming industry. Wonder how far this dream will stretch.
Go, I support National Car.
Pro2 and Pro3.
Proton need to learn from them.
You mean learn how to dream with our taxpayers money? Obviously Proton has more sense than dreams.
Dream for cloning Geely car.
Too bad Proton didn’t follow the script again and outshined the principal by making the car better. Yup, they never learned.
no need anymore national car la, enough with proton and perodua already, people are tired of all this nonsense
But can it fly? Or the least give us a car that float above water
Proton X70 headlights, Kia Forte front bumper, Audi A5 taillights.
They buy and use the obsoleted moulds to save costs…haaaa
Just like predecessor Perodua. Wait! We still have this dinosaur maker. Orz!
From the looks – Head/Tail Lights/Lower Apron Bumpers – Clean Horizontal designed more to mimic European rather than Japs – Good Job!! – Designer team from #DE
Anything less that Turkey version of their new national car, this is a waste or church
And please, this must have come up from some patch up copy here paste there here there here there nut job
Why i said so, because there wasnt any design language or even protoconcept from DreamEdge
Good thing this isnt going to cost us money and tax
Because i am due to change my car. I do this every two year
Finally, a sedan is on the way to save Malaysian.
Thank you Tun for realizing this, proud to be Malaysian!
buy a car is not simply buy and drive. you need to service and maintain the car. so, it is important to have a good after sales service and service centre network nationwide.
?Fun to Drive? == ?Sampan Ride and Handling?
Engine bay length like so long, looks like kete kia jer. Have been waiting for a proper b segment sedan at a right price. Something practical for daily drive like vios/city please. Fancy stuff like drl can be optional to reduce the price.
Just know copy paste audi
The design can cheat old mamak but not the younger gen
putihkan bahagian lampu depan tu , “mirror”kan kiri kanan , serupa civic lama je.
lampu blakang tu Tarik lebih kearah keluar sikit , dan kurang kemek2 , mcm lampu saga je.
What is this? VW Arteon front and Audi A4 rear?
To me, it’s headlamp a bit Toyota Fortuner, front bumper a bit previous Honda HRV and taillight a bit Audi A5…
DreamEdge car is fun to drive?
I just tickle-tickle myself while driving.
So, my car is also fun to drive.
‘ticklish’ feeling thru the steering, coming from the road surfaces.
Who knows, Silently hired 3rdparty to tune the driving dynamic – ehm ehm P…….
Who willing to put his head on the chopping block?
No one willing to put money to built the World class Modern car, No investor dare,
maybe LGE can invest some EPF money
i tot it would be fully EV.
i am disappointed
what is the engine? Is it CanBro?
comedy car is it ? all Malaysians should boycott perodua, proton and this new dream-age pro3 car
Why suddenly so many ppl like this after looking at the design? I thought everyone hate P3? Haha… Malaysian really mudah lupa.
Please make it as a Hybrid supercharge. it can go on fully electric mode and if need additional power, the hybrid and battery kicks in together. that’s technologically advance.
Sohai, another national crap, forever fkin jaguh kampung, only know how to build crap, look at our neighbors, no sohai has national car but doing better than us, sohai PH sohai policy brain dead forever
Thought DAP got alot of smart asses, Tony Ptui and what Dr Ong No Brain, can support another national car building, wtf more like building your bloody ego, vote you jokers up there to come out with rubbish policies
Its no easy peasy job to build this car from ground up. There must be a based model this company refered to during the design phase. And they need at least rm2bil or maybe more to build this car including sales n promotion later. Where will this money comes from? Bank loans? Will the bank need penjamin?Since it is national car project, the best guess maybe will be a gov guarantor. And later if the loan cannot be paid how? With a sales volume targeted at 3000u per month, i wonder at what price range will this car be at? It must not exceed either the civic, corolla,the conti brand n the koreans. And where will they source its engine and drivetrain? And will local vendors brave enough to engage business with them to develop and supply Parts to their cars? Not to mention the setting up of new plant with capable skill to run the production n keep quality top notch. There so much questions to be ask since maybe it will involve future tax payers money. Anyway, best of luck to dreamedge!
previous gen honda civic headlight?
rear is m-benz lights?
hmm copy copy