It all started with this piece of metal from the Malaysia's National Car producer, PROTON.
This is known as Proton Saga Iswara. Had the ride for almost 3 years (it was passed down by my brother, Alex, and my sister and I used to fight for the car! hahaha)
From WIKI:
The Proton Saga is a subcompact car, formerly a compact car manufactured by Malaysian auto manufacturer Proton since September 1985.
The Saga and its variants contribute to most of Proton's sales and revenues since its introduction. For nearly 22 years, the first-generation Saga is the longest surviving Proton model to date, ahead of Proton's mid-size car, the Perdana. The original Saga model was based on the 1983 Mitsubishi Lancer Fiore in conjunction with the agreement with Mitsubishi to produce Malaysia's own national car. In 2008, a successor designed in-house by Proton was launched under the new management and using the Proton Savvy platform to cut development cost. In August of that year, the 3 millionth car produced by Proton was a second generation Proton Saga.
In 1992, the Saga was given a facelift and its name expanded as Proton Saga Iswara (also known in short as Proton Iswara), after a species of butterfly inSarawak. Modifications included slimmer headlights, plastic bumpers, side mouldings, coloured door handles, grooved taillight clusters, a more modern interior and rear number plate repositioned to the bumper.[8] In addition, new colors for automatic transmission models were introduced as well. This particular model is used as taxis in Malaysia and many have been converted to NGV. Due to the modification, boot space was reduced by half to accommodate the NGV tank and there are only a few petrol stations by Malaysian oil-giant Petronas in the Klang Valley that sell natural gas, although there are plans underway to increase the number of stations selling it at various locations around Kuala Lumpur.[9][10]
Models exported to Singapore and the United Kingdom were available with multi-point fuel injection and catalytic converters to meet Euro I emissions standards. This model was known as the Proton MPi in the United Kingdom. The introduction of the Proton Wira in 1993 replaced the corresponding models in the Saga range in the United Kingdom and this continued until the entire range was replaced in 1996.[11]
In 2001, to regain sales and be competitive with Perodua, Proton introduced a special edition of Saga Iswara Sport based on the Aeroback version which included a new bodykit, metallic rear wing, jewel-effect headlights and Altezza lights, among other changes. It was only available in silver, with a manual transmission and a 1.3-litre engine. The original Saga Iswara Aeroback was still available in a 1.5-litre engine.
While the Iswara Aeroback underwent further modifications in the domestic market to become the Saga LMST in 2003, the saloon variant remained on sale unchanged.
It was the beginning of my car modification ride..... as the car's ICE has already been upgraded with the mixtures of RockFord Fosgate SPL stuff as well as a SONY headunit, the only obvious changes that i made to the ride is to change it's puny 13inch rims to a bigger one.......a 14inch....... mind you, 14inch tires cost like a bomb in year 2000.........
After the 3 years, finally decided that the car cannot take it any more.... with my constant corner attacks and clutch dumping (and some nasty bang by some idiotic van driver to her beautiful @$$, we've decided to let it go..... and i got myself something rather exotic in 2001, a PERODUA KENARI!
