Proton X70 SUV previewed
By CARSIFU | 7 September 2018
SUBANG JAYA: Proton's long awaited first SUV was shown at a media preview today ahead of its launch later this year. Bookings for the SUV will open tomorrow with a deposit of RM1,000.
The name of the Geely Boyue-based vehicle was also announced as X70, the first time a Proton model alphanumeric naming system is used. The name was arrived at after Proton held an online contest and Malaysians were asked to choose one of four proposed names - PX70, X7, X70 and X700.
The use of the name X70 was to "make it easier for Proton to sell the X70 in Asean and other international markets as there are no language barriers to overcome."
"The letter X is also synonymous with crossover or SUV vehicles so using it makes it easy to identify the segment this Proton model is from while the number 70 denotes the size/class of the SUV and gives Proton a logical system to add bigger or smaller models in the future,” said Proton Edar CEO Abdul Rashid Musa.
