Proton Tuah

The Proton Tuah was a concept saloon shown by the Malaysian carmaker Proton at the Kuala Lumpur International Motor Show in 2010. It was one of five show cars in the Pahlawan series, whose names were taken from legendary Malaccan warriors, and the motoring press treated it as the most important of them because it appeared to preview the next generation Persona and a new global C-segment saloon for the company. The car was a four door body shown as a clay model, so its finish was not that of a production car. Its new family face carried daytime running lights built into the headlamps and the fog lamp area, the side view had large 18 inch ten spoke wheels and a sloping roofline, and the left and right tail lamps were joined into one piece. A Czech report read the car as a sign of the design direction Proton would take next. The word Espire appeared on the rear numberplate of the show car, which suggests it was an earlier name for the concept before the Pahlawan names were chosen.