In June, we brought you news of the Proton X70 being selected to join the Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM) fleet alongside the Honda Civic starting in July, with 197 units of the 1,275 new patrol vehicles being the national carmaker’s SUV. Now, photos of the cars are circulating online, having first been shared by Thoriq Azmi.
Just like the Civic, the X70 procured by the police is in base trim – in this case, the Standard 2WD. It wears the same updated livery as the Honda, with blue and red bonnet stripes, blue and yellow side graphics (including minimised Battenburg markings) and angular “Polis” script on the bonnet, sides and rear. Blue light bars are also fitted, of course.
Both the X70 and the Civic are being used to modernise the police fleet, replacing the ageing Proton Waja. In the Civic’s case, the sedan underwent a series of technical tests carried out by government vehicle fleet provider Spanco. The cars, which are equipped with RMPNeT communication equipment, dashboard cameras and digital video recorders, are being leased Spanco under a five-year concession.
Just to recap, the X70 is powered by a 1.8 litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine, producing 181 hp and 300 Nm of torque. The cars you see here are of the latest, locally-assembled 2020 specification (denoted by the new Proton roundel badging), meaning that they get the new seven-speed wet dual-clutch transmission, with drive sent to the front wheels.
GALLERY: 2020 Proton X70 Standard 2WD
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Good
Bad move With Civic and X70 car purchases..
Should spend the money on many police motorbikes which equip police force tools.
Motorbike skip traffic jam, reach crime scene faster, respond efficiently and effectively , can go to small or tight road at any time and solve / close many cases. KPI for police force will be met too.
Get 2500 motorcycles, instead of cars to reduce crime rate.
Civic and X70. Honda and Proton. DRB
They already have and these bikes have been serving very well indeed.
They really need a new fleet of patrol vehicle. Maybe in big and established town area they already using newer cars. At other town they still use the old wira.
Preve are mostly used by IO which does not make sense when patrol cars are still the old wira. When newer cars are received, IPK took most of it then sens the older cars to other station.
Above all, even if they got more bikes…who will ride them. U will be surprise how small the police force for a town area. As the area develop and more people moving in, police force remain the same in strength. 30 people might seem much but sperate them according to shift, then duty,….its very low manpower.
In 2013 PDRM had made deals with Kawasaki Malaysia to purchase 5,000 units of bikes of variable models to suit the task such as Ninja 250 and KLX dual purpose for Sabah territory.
But PDRM traffic division wasn’t big fan of Kawasaki, it’s fleet is made of mostly Honda bikes.
Good to replace non-national X-Trail with national car X70. Kudos to PDRM!
PDRM really purchase a lot of new car lately. I don’t mind they purchase local car as it help the local economy, but not foreign brand
Not much choice. Preve is out of production and Altis CBU Thailand is out of the question. The next best is CKD Civic 1.8S.
Why is there to be spotted? Its expected else where do you think most of proton’s sales coming from?
Nope, you’re misinformed.
Yes he is, as usual
Err from the public? Unlike Crown Vic Interceptor, Proton cars aren’t solely for police duties you know.
Another BS from the resident Proton hater. What’s new about you?
He has taken on the hate-train mantle after Kunta got permanently permabanned. If someone could hate it that much, it must be really that good.
syabas and tahniah to the chinese carmaker.
Last time I checked P1 is Malaysian, no different than Skoda is till a Czech car company and a VW or German car company.(eventhough VW wholely owns Skoda);
or Jaguar is not an Indian car company and is not Tata (eventhough Tata wholely owns Jaguar AND Land Rover);
Daihatsu is not Toyota (eventhough Toyota owns 51.4% of Daihatsu).
Yet, Geely owns only 49.9 of P1 and you call it a ‘Chinese’ car maker?
Should buy Merc SUV….becoz their maintenance is cheaper than Japs. Hmmm, I remember someone said it last time…
The Malaysian Armed Forces have around 100 Mercedes G-Class (the hardcore military version, not the SUV).
Our police vehicles should have larger, more visible Battenburg markings. Patrol vehicles ideally should be highly visible not only for safety but also act as a crime deterrent. Battenburg markings like those on UK police vehicles can get seen as far as 500 metres away due to usage of high visibility yellow with big blue square blocks.
Should they wish to conceal police vehicles, then have unmarked cars.
With the strips and graphical marks on it, looks handsome.