Geely to rebadge Proton AMA fashions for sure markets – modular platform has 50+ markets in thoughts

You learn the headline proper. Proton automobile programme government Desmond John Pinto has revealed throughout a Q&A session at yesterday’s Proton Tech Showcase launch that Proton fashions primarily based on the Superior Modular Structure (AMA) might be rebadged by Geely on the market in sure markets.

It’s because Geely doesn’t have smaller, extra compact and reasonably priced fashions than these Proton presently sells (X/S sequence), he defined. The AMA platform is a re-engineered model of the earlier Saga‘s, which has origins relationship again some 20 years. The recently-launched Saga MC3 is the primary mannequin to sit down on this platform (AMA01), and there’ll in future be AMA02, AMA05 and AMA06 fashions – “new-gen reasonably priced and sensible international automobiles” to switch PIES (Persona, Iriz, Exora and Previous Saga) fashions.

AMA has been re-engineered to be modular – based on Pinto’s presentation, the wheelbase could be lengthened by as much as 290 mm and the observe widened by as much as 43 mm. The Saga’s wheelbase is 2,465 mm (it has been so since 2008). If we assume there’ll be no smaller fashions than the Saga, this implies AMA has the potential to accommodate a 2,755 mm wheelbase – longer than the Exora’s 2,730, Civic‘s 2,735 and even the eMas 7‘s 2,750!

The platform has additionally been designed with the worldwide market in thoughts, with simultaneous left- (LHD) and right-hand drive (RHD) growth for over 50 markets throughout ASEAN, Africa, the Indian sub-continent, the Center East, plus Latin and South America.

AMA fashions not solely goal a five-star ASEAN NCAP security ranking within the 2026-2030 protocol; their structural designs additionally take Euro NCAP under consideration. And – right here’s one thing to please Proton followers – we’re instructed AMA fashions will retain Proton journey and dealing with.

Powertrains? Moreover the brand new Saga’s port-injected 1.5 litre i-GT four-cylinder engine, Aisin four-speed auto and Punch CVTthere might be hybrids that mix the engine with devoted hybrid transmissions. Excited?

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