Proton Lancer
This could be proton s new waja replacement based on the mitsubishi lancer on test.
Proton lancer. Proton uses old model mitsi tooling and running gear in most of it s models. The base specs seems to be the lancer gls as seen from the lack of a spoiler and the use of the gls 5 spoke. Proton inspira has been spied with masked tapes and it has been often refer as the re badged mitsubishi lancer or the proton waja replacement model.
25 in indonesia only the gt is sold and it utilizes the 2 0 liter 4b1 engine and is sold alongside the evolution x. At a rally a while back i saw what i thought was an evoiii but at closer inspection it had proton badging and was listed as a proton in the listings. It was sold exclusively in malaysia as a rebadged ninth generation mitsubishi lancer as the result of a collaboration between mitsubishi motors and proton the inspira succeeded the proton waja and complements the indigenously designed proton.
It was launch on wednesday and we went to do some detail review and inspection of the new product by proton. Also proton had renewed cross licensing and technology transfer agreements with mitsubishi as of october 2008 and lead to the proton inspira which is a badge engineered 2007 2017 lancer. Proton exports 2020 proton x70 malaysia s best selling suv the 2020 proton x70 was launched in brunei on sunday 6 september.
Proton inspira latest news mitsubishi debuts new 4j10 mivec engine in asx lancer used in overseas lancers and the proton inspira 1 8 the 4b10 is a 1 8 litre inline 4 16 valve engine. Apart from that it had all lancer evo running gear and body parts ie. Compared to the 4b10 the new 4j10 has just 1kw and 5 nm less so it s a good trade for the 12.
The proton inspira is a four door compact saloon produced by malaysian automobile manufacturer proton which was first launched in november 2010.
