November 26, 2010 Proton Perdana History Here my info for Proton Perdana.. Perdana SEi (1995-1998) The Perdana was first introduced by Proton in 1995 with  Mitsubishi 's proven 2.0L  4G63 sohc  engine. It was based on the Mitsubishi Galant platform and was thus similar to the Mitsubishi Eterna in Japan, but