Ever the industrious renderer, Photoshop wizard Theophilus Chin has been at work once more – this time dreaming up the forthcoming second-generation Perodua Bezza. In his personal phrases, he has rendered the automotive a number of occasions, most lately final July utilizing the newest Axia as a base.
This newest effort hasn’t introduced a lot new to the desk – the entrance half of the automotive has nonetheless been lifted straight from the Axia. The wheels have no less than been modified to the five-split-spoke ones from the bottom Ativa X, which in these author’s eyes look extra aesthetically pleasing than the Axia’s multi-spokes.
However it’s the rear that has seen the largest revision – the roofline now slopes additional in direction of the rear, the area within the C-pillar being crammed by quarter-light home windows aft of the rear doorways, making a six-window graphic alongside the edges.
The marginally out-of-proportion rear finish can be very quick – nice for balancing out the also-diminutive entrance, not so nice for boot area (which isn’t precisely the Perodua manner). It’s a far cry from the dumpy appears to be like of the present Bezza.
There aren’t any prizes for guessing the place the person components are from – the taillights and rear quantity plate garnish have been lifted from the Ativa, whereas the rear bumper (with its black diffuser-style insert) and aforementioned aspect window graphic are from the Proton S70, as Chin himself alluded to.
Clearly, we nonetheless do not know what the precise next-gen Bezza – which will probably be exported to different ASEAN international locations carrying the Daihatsu badge for the primary time – will appear like, however it’s going to seemingly have a unique entrance finish therapy in comparison with the Axia – similar to how the present mannequin has a novel face not shared with the unique Axia.
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Perodua has additionally stated that the brand new mannequin will derive some inspiration from the winners of the Asian Compact Sedan Design Problem (ACSDC) 2023, a contest the nationwide carmaker held along side the Malaysian Design Council.
The winners had been solely introduced in December, so it’s seemingly that the Bezza’s design hasn’t been finalised, if it has even began in any respect – Perodua’s vice chairman Datuk Ahmad Suhaimi Hashim has already stated as a lot by revealing that the automotive is nonetheless on the drafting board. As such, count on to wait no less than a 12 months earlier than the subsequent Bezza really involves fruition.
Because it’s nonetheless a methods away, we don’t have any technical specs to go on, however we are able to guess our backside greenback that the Bezza will probably be primarily based on the identical Daihatsu New International Platform (DNGA) because the Axia. It might additionally share that automotive’s 67 hp/91 Nm 1.0 litre three-cylinder engine, however provided that Perodua is set to introduce its first electrical car on the finish of subsequent 12 months, may we additionally see an EV model of the corporate’s bestselling mannequin?
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