The Geely Boyue has been around since 2016, and on August 4 this year, one million units of the SUV have been sold. To celebrate the milestone, the Chinese carmaker has released a special edition of the Boyue, which features the Infinite Weave grille seen on our own Proton X70.
This replaces the “expanding cosmos” grille originally fitted to the Boyue, and it, along with the Geely badge, are finished in black. As we’ve been told previously, the Infinite Weave design is the work of Proton designers, who were inspired by traditional Malaysian wood carvings, and has already been applied to other Proton models like the Iriz and Persona.
Besides the new grille, the front of the celebratory Boyue also gets colour-matched side air inlets for the unchanged bumper. Around back, the Geely script is used instead of a badge between the taillights, something already seen on the Boyue Pro, and of course, the X70.
Moving inside, the SUV carries over cues from the Boyue Pro, including a flat-bottom steering wheel and a larger 10.25-inch touchscreen infotainment system, with lesser variants fitted with an eight-inch unit instead. Other items include a seven-inch digital instrument cluster, dual-zone climate control, leather upholstery and an optional panoramic sunroof.
The special edition Boyue comes in three variants, all with a 1.8 litre turbocharged four-cylinder engine and front-wheel drive. The base option (reportedly called the 1.8TD + 6MT Comfort) gets 163 PS and 250 Nm, along with a six-speed manual, and is priced at RMB99,800 (RM60,122).
Stepping up to the mid-range variant (1.8TD +7DCT Comfort) at RMB109,800 (RM66,147) nets you more power at 184 PS and 300 Nm as well as a seven-speed wet dual-clutch transmission – the same setup we get for the X70. The range-topper (1.8TD + 7DCT Luxury) uses the same powertrain, but comes with additional equipment for RMB116,800 (RM70,366). The current 2020 Boyue line-up in China is priced from RMB88,800 (RM53,496) to RMB119,800 (RM72,172) across four variants.
Chinese media outlets also report that the special edition Boyue comes with an upgraded chassis, with more high-strength steel used for the rear subframe to increase structural strength while reducing a little weight. Customers there will get seven colours to choose from, including white, silver, black, red, gold, grey and a special purple finish.
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Anyone knows who’s the manufacturer for the manual GB? sounds interesting
That “expanding cosmos” grille more interesting
that’s cute
Something of which Proton can be a little proud.. The grille, the name script at rear and HSS tech.
Yeah.. wau grille, layang-layang grille, karipap grille, rendang grille coming after this.
At least, the grille can be proud to be seen. Meanwhile, someone is also proud for his dumbness to be seen…
Wow! Geely acknowledging baby partner Proton as a fully contributing partnership! Imagine that! This is what I called partnerships of equals. Have you ever seen Toyota using Perodua design for JDM cars? Never!
The new Toyota Raize has some Perodua style design cues at the rear bumper.
Where? Oh you mean from Perodua Aruz which they ciplak wholesale from Toyota Rush. So tell me how is this a Perodua style design again?
It’s from the Myvi lah. Learn to respect all car brands bro
Don’t be shy then, tell us exactly which Myvi design features that was copied to Raize.
P1, Geely, Mesidis, Volvo, Lotus > all
wow proton could go so far with just a plastic grille, imagine if they designed and made their own cars, see how far they could go!
oh wait a minute…
It’s a very nice. I Like!
Ikr…Sadly MY still get the old pre-facelift Boyue instead of the latest one
Which pre-Facelift are you talking about? X70 CKD is with the current face for Boyue in China. You can see it in the pictures above. Just open your eyes.
top @ china RM70k vs top @ Msia RM120k
so called for local brand local car
dont care what is the reason but this is sad….
Yes they got lower pricing because it is local brand local car. Anything wrong?
So proton is not a local brand here?
This is also one of my question. Is it about the higher tax? increased in margin? An extra of 50k is just too much for a local car. Or Malaysia just tax all imported car price so high to cover the actual selling price of the so call local made car looks reasonable. But in fact is not :)
We sold more Wira Iswara and Myvi
All more than 1 million units, more than 3% malaysian population.
Chinese local suv at 1.4 billion population, baru sampai 1 million?
Mehh, not even 0.1% population
How many years for Myvi to reach 1 million units sold, abang oi?
Perodua use less than 2 years to supply car to 1% Malaysian.
Geely Binyue – 4 years to achieve less than 0.1% chinese population? probably they need 40 years to achieve 1% chinese popluation.
that’s how unpopular Geely Binyue is @ the Chinese Home Land. Not even a Jaguh Kampung.
And more popular fuel pump problems too https://paultan.org/2020/08/11/perodua-explains-myvi-fuel-pump-recall-issue-direct-contact-approach-oct-2019-onwards-cars-unaffected/
Fuel pump dah ganti ke belum?
oh no…that proton head of design Azlan Othman gona brag this as his achievement ^^
And why shouldn’t he? This is an achievement in itself.
Hahahahahahahha
Have you spell achievement correctly?
Where is X50!!!!!! I’ve been waiting for it for sooooo longgggg….
Bring that here with the new head unit, with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, kit with ACC until stop, i will definitely forget my target cars, XC40 and CX-5 2.5T.
thundercats logo need how many Proton pepur to design ha?
need how many Proton pepur to design infinite grill ha?
How many seconds you need to type ‘people’ ha?
i hope proton will do something with CKD’s front absorber sound “kluk klak kluk klak”
And if u requested a song in JOOX, they wont play it, saying got error or have to update software. but the software already updated
So, Proton is a grille specialist with 30 plus years of experience. Great. Next.
Perodua have been a grille specialist for 28 years and still Toyota and Daihatsu rate them too poorly to adopt their designs. Great. Next!
Wow surprisingly no one mentioned the price of the car in China priced from RM53k to RM70k. I just wondered how our tax system comes to Rm120k even without SST when the car is also manufactured here. Wow that is just unbelievable.
It’s not about tax. It’s about price setting. X70 cannot be cheaper than vios. Or same price like myvi Advance.. All.cars in Malaysia are subjected to this… Because of protection given to p1 and p2. OOtherwise jazz and Yaris would be slightly more than myvi 1.5/iriz 1.6 and not 15-20k more
Protection for P1? You forget who is actually building and selling X70 did you? The only protection left is solely for P2. If X50 sold today at Myvi pricing (as what P1 wants), you can say goodnite to P2. Tomorrow they can close shop.
As to Bob, the reason why their cars are cheap there is exactly why Saga is cheap here. Both are local cars in their respective countries.