As my current car is getting kinda old due to all the years of abuse, she just turn 12 last month so last April I decided to bought another car. After looking around the options I have, I decided on a Proton Iriz 1.3 MT as the 1. 6 model is not in production anymore. I bought it and as usual, it had to be red as it was my favourite colour on a car.
The car is built using Proton's RESS hot press forming (HPF) technology. As expected of a Proton, the handling is quite good for a stock standard car of it's class. I guess by owning Lotus, the guys at Proton did learn some tricks on ride and handling from the master itself.
The powerplant of my car is a S4PE inline 4 DOHC engine that features a displacement of 1332cc (bore x stroke = 76.0mm x 74.3mm) and have the maximum output of 94hp@5750rpm with maximum torque of 120nm@4000rpm.
The car when it was a few days old, at the car wash with the stock 14" wheels
Change the wheels at 1500km, a set of bronze Advanti SL-03 15"x7" ET38
Yokohama Advan Fleva V701 195/55R15 to pair with the new wheels
On my favourite road Gombak to Sempah
Stop to take a leak! haha...
Since owning the car since last April, I've driven the car a lot on the regular twisty roads and the car really feels at home on such roads and that brings a lot of smile on my face.
The car has been chosen by MEM Motorsport to compete in the R5 rally category so I guess the car is a good base car for competitive racing . Even the guys at Proton make a race version of their own.
Proton Iriz R5 (Image credit from vernonchan.com)
Nice looking ass (Image credit from vernonchan.com)
The race car by Proton
Nice looking splitter
Another nice looking ass
For now, I'll just keep the car stock as it's serving the duty as my daily ride untill the desire to mod it comes... then it depends on what I gonna do as I'm more into handling and balance, never about power.