A little over three years ago, former Proton CEO Tengku Tan Sri Mahaleel Tengku Ariff revealed that there were plans for the national automaker to explore a wagon-bodied version of the Gen2, as well as a new generation model of the Satria Neo. There were many other plans in the pipeline, but a high-performance Gen2 was never part of the picture.
With that, rendering whiz Theophilus Chin took matters into his own hands and created the Gen2 GTi. It’s named exactly after what it is – a Gen2 fitted with Satria GTi parts. The shared components are plenty obvious – the hot hatch’s front bumper with integrated circular fog lamps is featured here in full, with the only difference being the grille design (unchanged from the pre-facelift Gen2).
You’ll also spot the black plastic strip running the length of the Gen2, complete with the “GTi 16V” badge on the rear doors. It does look a little out of place, perhaps because the original moulding was slimmer, had tapered edges, and was positioned slightly higher.
The GTi’s riveted wheel arches find their way here, naturally, as have the iconic 16-inch six-spoke silver alloys. The actual car didn’t have yellow calipers, mind you, but these were borrowed from the masterfully rebuilt 2000 Proton Satria GTi by Dream Street Restoration.
Towards the back, you’ll spot traces of the actual hot hatch in the lower half of the bumper design, including the dual rectangular exhaust finishers. The tail lights featured here are taken from the final batches of the first generation Persona, while the boot spoiler is borrowed from the Gen2 CPS.
Since this is just a rendering, we’ll leave the powerplant to your imagination. Anyone will prefer having the Satria GTi’s fabled 4G93P 1.8 litre DOHC four-cylinder engine here, but if you get to make the call, what would be the engine of your choice? Tell us what you think of this rendering and your engine choice, below. You can also watch a sped-up version of the actual rendering in the video below.
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Eww
Iriz GTi kutt
Iriz GTi good idea. May be GTi versions of X50 & X70?
The world’s first modern car with no glove box.
lol nobody could find a pair of gloves inside glove box of modern day cars as well.
Proton Gen2 GTi 2-door hot hatch 247HP! Baru mantapp
Talk about lazy creativity. Worst submission by Theo. By a mile. I can’t do it of course but if I could, I’d put some effort on front and rear light clusters, grill, side wing mirrors…
err …. apa bezanye ha?
woo hoo …powered by the Campro 1.6L enjin ke?
Campro better than vtec honda says by proton fan boy!
The Proton Satria GTi was launched in 1998 with a 140PS (103 kW) 1.8-litre Mitsubishi-sourced 4G93P engine (“P” for Proton), originally found in the Mitsubishi Lancer GSR.
atleast those wheels does age well, way better than the original offering
Garbage model!
you say proton gen 2 garbage model but that car i used for daily and this gti gen 2 maybe my inspiration to my gen 2 project
Matt,
High performance Gen-2 was never part of the picture?
Maybe you are too young to remember about the Gen-2 MME limited edition. It has engine upgrades that makes 12hp more than the standard Gen-2. The suspension is also 25mm lower to help with the handling.
https://paultan.org/2006/08/05/proton-waja-mme-and-proton-gen2-mme-photos/
I worked on this and boringly looked at the rocker wheel arch joint… IMO the sheet metal should have been like that. The metal encapsulated the door opening. No aesthetic need and potential assembly complications. Politics rather than my input dictated that decision… But that’s another story!
John Mansfield
what do you mean by “this”?
the satria gti?
Maybe a Satria Neo as base model will work with GTIs manioulation. Hey, give it a try Theo.
Why prefacelift bumper? A go faster car should use facelift front with the bigger cooling capacity for a powerful engine. Quite a mismatch since Gen2 facelift with the smoked headlamps itself is a handsome car so less is better, perhaps slammed down suspension, those GTI inspired wheel arches, a functional wing instead of rear spoiler, and low profile tyres.
1997 Proton Putra 1.8l
yaawwwwnnnnn……… Year 2021 lo…..
i see Theophilus Chin… i skip
For the power train, I would have chosen petronas e-01 2 liter NA 200 hp engine and maybe a twin staged turbo with Getrag 7 speed transmission.
Waste of time…cant proton come w something more productive?
This photoshop is not from Proton designer, you are waste of time to give the comments here.
front n rear lamp maintain the old one…gone
80% maintain the old one…gone
Plastic arches so 90s…..GTi should be always 2 door.
MOVE ON!!!!
industrial trash
Yes, especially the brand name Perodua.
another yucky rendering from the rendering whiz
cantiklah gen 2 gti patut dibuat proton
Unless its a 200hp, 300nm, with all the safety features and sold below RM50k, forget about it!
It’s what it’s; rubbish!
grill & bumper, headlamp, tailamp must go out. just outdated gti design
Without any changes in Proton, do you expect there is a change in Proton cars? Chief engineer and chief designer both have to be changed if we expect changes from Proton.
lol…
all goes crazy over 20yo cars
hahaha as usual this car design wannabe use some free cut and paste app creating some weird looking car design exactly like his weird name. Im bet this clown dono anything bout car designing.
Even THE rendering wizard can’t save this ugly car…
Honestly it looks like how students submit online assignments at 11:59pm
If this picture came out 10 years ago, I will be really excited. But time has changed and as we have seen better car exterior design, I think this woild only be relevant for those who still drives the trusty and reliable Gen2.
Lol. Theo is just insulting us. C’mon Malaysia, u all gonna take this from a Singaporean?.. lol