Proton Persona / Iriz Facelift: You Need To Know B4 Launch - Malaysian Automotive News
Channel: MAN - Malaysian Automotive News
Date: 2021-08-03

Proton Cars will be launching the freshly-facelift Persona and the Iriz by the 5th of August, and this is what you’ll need to know before launch. 
 
The Persona and Iriz were last gotten their makeup in 2019 and have gotten over 31,000 units delivered to its owner in 2020. With the facelift, both models will just boost up Proton’s sales in the pandemic. 
 
What do we see here?  First, the Iriz seems to have received an SUV-inspired version, replete with black body cladding and wheel-arches, plus roof rails, much like the Axia Style. This “rugged” variant is seen here with new multi-spoke wheels. The red example in the teaser video is matched with a black roof, which helps the silver rails stand out. It looks like the interior gets some red trim too – we can see that the frames of the center console and head unit (both of which are new) are in red, matched with part-leather seats with red stitching. Could this new flagship variant be called Iriz Active? Proton did come up with the Iriz Active Concept in 2014 if you remember.
The Persona also gets new wheels, which are in a twin-six-spoke design. The sedan’s door cards are shown, and we can see perforated brown leather inserts. There’s a bigger free-standing central head unit touchscreen seen here (for both cars) and the screen still shows Joox as the music app – no Spotify, yet.
Both cars get a fresh grille design with Proton’s new round tiger badge and LED headlamps. 
To recap, the outgoing Proton Persona is propelled by a 1.6-liter 4 cylinder engine with 109 Ps, 150 Nm. Two transmission options are available, a 5-speed manual and a CVT automatic. 
For the pricing, we expect both cars will have a slightly higher price comparing to the current models. For the Facelift Persona, we expect the price to be range from RM 43,000 to RM 56,000; for the Iriz, the car will start from RM 38,000 towards RM 55,000. 
Proton has opened registration of interest page for both these facelift models, which are just around the corner now. What do you think about the car? Do you like the facelift? Let me know what you are thinking in the comments section down below.