Comfortable birthday, Proton X50! Sure, right now marks the third anniversary of the B-segment SUV, which was launched again on October 27, 2020, and the carmaker has introduced on its Fb web page that 98,189 items of the X50 have been delivered to clients as of end-September this 12 months.

When you do the mathematics (roughly), that’s round 32,000 items a 12 months, round 2,700 items a month, round 600 items per week and round 90 items a day. In fact, this isn’t a lot of a shock as a result of the X50 was hotly anticipated previous to its launch, and within the first two weeks of its launch, over 20,000 bookings have been acquired.

Within the following weeks, the order books continued to replenish, with the carmaker pushing to fulfill deliveries regardless of the nation being affected by the worldwide pandemic and chip scarcity. Quick ahead to right now, the X50’s momentum nonetheless seems to be sturdy, because it at the moment makes up round 21% of Proton’s whole gross sales for this 12 months as of the top of September.

The variant line-up has remained the identical for 3 years, beginning with the 1.5T Customary that at the moment retails at RM86,300 on-the-road with out insurance coverage. That is adopted by the 1.5T Govt at RM93,300, the 1.5T Premium at RM101,800 and the range-topping 1.5 TGDi Flagship at RM113,300.

Earlier this 12 months, Proton additionally unveiled the particular X50 R3 twentieth Anniversary Version, which shall be restricted to simply 200 items, though there’s no phrase on how a lot it’ll retail for simply but. The corporate is about to host the ‘Unleash Your Creativeness Carnival’ this weekend at its Centre of Excellence (COE), so perhaps we’ll get a solution then.

Along with the native market, the X50 can also be offered in a number of export nations equivalent to Mozambique, South Africa and Brunei. “We’re delighted to have you ever on this journey with us, and we need to categorical our heartfelt gratitude to each Malaysian who has made this achievement attainable!” the corporate stated in its posting.

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