You saw it last month at the Kuala Lumpur International Mobility Show (KLIMS) 2024; now Proton has announced on Facebook that the Proton X50 Sport Edition will be launching in Malaysia this Thursday, January 16. You can watch the virtual launch live on Facebook, TikTok and YouTube at 9pm.
The car will be limited to “approximately 1,000 units”. As seen at KLIMS, it wears a bodykit which consists of a red front splitter, side skirts and rear spats. There’s also new black paint, a gloss black finish for the grille surround and tailgate garnish (previously satin chrome), plus a red shoulder line stripe.
Also fitted are new 18-inch ten-spoke gloss black alloy wheels, fitted to a lower-spec variant of the original Geely Binyue (the X50 usually gets the top-spec two-tone rollers on the Premium and Flagship variants). Finishing off the look is a chrome Sport Edition badge on the tailgate, with the car also gaining door sill scuff plates and a Qi wireless charger.
The X50 Sport Edition is based on the RM101,800 Premium variant, meaning it uses the port-injected 150 PS/226 Nm 1.5 litre turbo three-cylinder engine and a seven-speed wet dual-clutch gearbox.
It also means the car loses out on the Flagship’s driver assistance features such as autonomous emergency braking, adaptive cruise control and lane centring assist.
“Stay tuned for a special announcement during the event!” says Proton in the Facebook post caption – we wonder what that could be. We’ll know on Thursday.
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Ape ni, ya mean haven’t launched during Klims time?
Joke all the way. Very daring advertisement. Encourage more road accident since it encourages driving fast.
How can sport edition be using port injection 1.5L 3Cyl TGDi instead it should be the latest 1.5L 4Cyl that produce 184PS / 290Nm with 7.6sec century sprint and better fuel economy too at 5.8L/100km.
Sadly we can only dream on.
Shud call it vanity Tape edition
adopt UMW ideology to boost the sales with revise cosmetic.
Fugly color choice seriously
Proton at this point is just selling riced out cars.. gone are the days when they were selling real performance cars
Another round of milking the 5 year old X50 with “sporty” colors and bodykits
Cehhhh, just name it “clear stock” edition lah
after market accessory = sport edition. joke
It’s already 2025 and Proton is still pulling this kind of cosmetic stuff from the 90’s to sell car?
Looks like modified by x50 group members, I think many did this before.