Proton Waja

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Proton Waja (2000-2006)
Proton Waja (2000-2006)
Waja / Impian
Production period: 2000-2011
Class : Compact class
Body versions : limousine
Engines:
Petrol engines : 1.6–2.0 liters
(75–109 kW)
Length: 4465 mm
Width: 1740 mm
Height: 1420 mm
Wheelbase : 2600 mm
Empty weight : 1210-1249 kg
Previous model Proton Wira
successor Proton Inspira

The Proton Waja is a lower middle class car that was built by the Malay car manufacturer Proton from 2000 to 2011. In Europe, the Waja was offered as the Proton Impian . This name also comes from Malay and means "dream" in German.

The four-door sedan , designed by Proton itself, was unveiled in August 2000. This made the Waja the first car that was designed in Malaysia . The name Waja means "hard" (like steel) and emphasizes the strength of the Waja compared to earlier constructions. The reason for this name was also the prevailing opinion in the home market that Proton automobiles were weaker than other brands.

history

Rear view
Proton Waja (2007-2011)
Stars in the Euro NCAP - Crash Test (2002) Crash test star 3.svg

The Waja was the first model created in Proton's design offices. Development of the car began in the late 1990s along with the Campro engine, but development of this engine was still in progress when the Waja was released. Therefore, the car was initially equipped with the 4G18 engine from Mitsubishi , before switching to the Campro engines in 2006.

The Waja came on the domestic market in August 2000, which coincided with the introduction of the new Proton logo. However, the first copies shipped had significant quality problems because some suppliers failed to perform quality controls in order to meet the initially high demand. However, the quality of the components was significantly improved by 2005.

Since its debut, the Waja has been revised twice:

The first small facelift took place in mid-2006 and only affected the taillights.

The second facelift took place at the end of 2006 and on January 19, 2007 the new Waja was presented together with the revised Savvy . It had a new grille that looked like the Savvy's. It is now also equipped with ABS and airbags as standard in Malaysia ; before these two safety features were only available at an additional cost.

At the end of 2005 Proton introduced another variant, the Waja Chancellor . The vehicles were used as ASEAN representative limousines for the meeting of their heads of state in downtown Kuala Lumpur and were officially launched in early 2006. The Waja Chancellor has a longer wheelbase and the 2.0-liter V6 engine that was also used in the Perdana and is supplied by Mitsubishi.

In 2008 a new Waja with an improved Campro motor and a new center console with a 2-DIN Clarion stereo system came out.

In Great Britain , where the Waja was offered as the Impian, sales only began in April 2001. The car remained unchanged until the end of sales. The Impian was only available as a right-hand drive, in other European countries the car was sold as a Waja. The sales figures were never very high, as the car was already worse than its competitors when it was first introduced and all of these competitors have since been replaced by new designs. Its good driving characteristics, its good equipment, its low price and the good service ensured that the Impian continued to be of interest to British customers.

Technical specifications

Technical specifications

1.6 (4G18)

  • manual five-speed gearbox / four-speed automatic
  • Four-cylinder in-line SOHC engine with 16 valves from Mitsubishi
    • Multipoint Injection (MPI)
    • Power: 102 bhp (75 kW) at 6000 min −1
    • Torque: 145 Nm at 2750 min -1
    • Top speed: 185 km / h (manual transmission) / 180 km / h (automatic transmission)

1.6 (S4PH without CPS)

  • manual five-speed gearbox / four-speed automatic
  • Four-cylinder DOHC in-line engine '' Campro '' with 16 valves
    • Multipoint Injection (MPI)
    • Power: 110 bhp (81 kW) at 6000 min −1
    • Torque: 148 Nm at 4000 min -1
    • Top speed: 190 km / h (manual transmission) / 185 km / h (automatic transmission)

1.6 (S4PH with CPS)

  • manual five-speed gearbox / four-speed automatic
  • Four-cylinder DOHC in-line engine '' Campro CPS '' with 16 valves
    • Multipoint Injection (MPI)
    • Power 125 hp (92 kW) at 6500 min -1
    • Torque: 150 Nm at 4500 min -1
    • Top speed: 196 km / h (manual transmission) / 190 km / h (automatic transmission)

1.8X (F4P)

  • Four-stage automatic
  • Renault four-cylinder DOHC in-line engine with 16 valves
    • Multipoint Injection (MPI)
    • Power: 116 hp (85 kW) at 5750 min -1
    • Torque: 165 Nm at 3750 min -1
    • Top speed: 186 km / h

2.0 V6 (Waja Chancellor)

  • Four-stage automatic
  • Six-cylinder DOHC V-engine with 24 valves from Mitsubishi
    • Multipoint Injection (MPI)
    • Power: 148 hp (109 kW) at 6750 min -1
    • Torque: 179 Nm at 4000 min -1
    • Top speed: 200 km / h

In the first few years the Waja was powered by a 1.6 l four-cylinder SOHC in-line engine from Mitsubishi, type 4G18. Multi-point injection (MPI), internally ventilated disc brakes at the front and disc brakes at the rear were standard. All Waja, with the exception of the Chancellor model, were available with five-speed manual or four-speed automatic.

In 2002, the 1.8 l variant was introduced, which was powered by the same engine as the Renault Laguna II. The 1.8 l model offered drive-by-wire technology and camshaft adjustment (VVT). However, this model did not sell well in the home market, as the Malay could neither make friends with the Japanese technology nor with the European engine. Therefore, the 1.8 l was allowed to run out again the following year.

Since January 2006, the Campro engine has also been installed in the Waja. Although the engine was similar to that of the sister model Gen-2 , the DOHC engine in the Waja delivered higher power and higher torque, presumably because of the modified engine management and the modified intake system. The 2008 model had a Campro CPS engine with adjustable camshaft (VVT), which was not yet available in previous Waja-Campro models.

The 2006 Waja Chancellor had a longer wheelbase and was powered by a 2.0 liter V6 Mitsubishi, type 6A12, which was also used in the Perdana. This car was only available with a four-speed automatic transmission.

Racing use

For three years - from 2002 to 2004 - the Waja was used at the BTCC . There it was listed as Petronas Syntium Proton . The chronically underfunded team had hardly any racing successes, won no races and fared significantly worse than other works teams, although they had good drivers, such as B. David Leslie and Phil Bennett for the first two years . 2004 saw two new drivers, Shaun Watson-Smith and the Malay star Fariqe Hairuman , but after these two could not achieve anything either, the team gave up at the end of the year.

safety

Proton Waja (2006-2007) from the Polis Diraja Malaysia

The Waja / Impian is currently the only Proton that has passed a Euro NCAP crash test. The result of the test carried out in 2002 was disappointing.

EuroNCAP crash test 2002

  • Adult Occupant Safety: 3 out of 5 stars
  • Pedestrian safety: 1 out of 5 stars

British automobile magazine Top Gear showed photos of a damaged Proton Waja with a damaged Toyota Avensis to illustrate the differences between a three-star and a five-star car in a head-on collision with a deformable steel barrier. In 2011 the model was replaced by the Proton Inspira .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Results of the EuroNCAP crash test for the Proton Impian (English)

Web links

Commons : Proton Waja  - collection of images, videos and audio files