Proton Waja

The Proton Waja is a saloon built by the Malaysian maker Proton and launched on 8 May 2000 together with the company's new logo. Its name means strong as steel in Malay, and in the United Kingdom it was sold as the Proton Impian. It was heralded as the first indigenously designed Malaysian car, although it was later revealed that its chassis was a modified adaptation of the Mitsubishi Carisma and Volvo S40 platform, and early cars used Mitsubishi and Renault engines because the in-house CamPro engine was not ready. More than 292,000 Wajas were sold between 2000 and 2012, most of them with the 1.6 litre Mitsubishi 4G18 engine.