In Cars, Local News, Perodua / By Danny Tan / 23 June 2022 10:12 am / 56 comments

The 2022 Perodua Alza is now open for booking, and along with the announcement, Perodua has released initial details of the all-new MPV, which retains the household name, but with a new ‘vintage style’ font. This new model, a sister of the latest Toyota Avanza and Daihatsu Xenia, boasts “significant improvements in terms of driving comfort and versatility” over its long-serving JDM-based predecessor. It’s much larger, too.

The D27A Alza is powered by a 1.5 litre Dual VVT-i engine, and the NA four-pot is paired to the latest D-CVT automatic gearbox. This powertrain combo is likely to be the same one found in the latest Myvi facelift. It’s EEV-rated and capable of claimed 22.0 km/l fuel economy in the MDC. That’s likely to stand for Malaysian Driving Cycle, a locally-developed protocol based on local conditions. Eco Idle auto start-stop is standard.

Highlighted points in the flyer include an electronic parking brake (EPB) with auto brake hold, the above-mentioned 22 km/l FC, a chrome/gloss black front grille, a spacious seven-seater cabin, and a 360-degree panoramic view monitor. The latter and EPB are Perodua firsts.

Three variants of the new Alza will be offered – X, H and AV. The base variant comes with LED headlamps with follow-me home function, electric adjustable side mirrors with LED signals (manual fold), fabric seats, front (digital) and rear (manual) air con controls and Perodua’s latest Advanced Safety Assist (ASA) suite, which includes autonomous emergency braking (AEB). Accompanying ASA is Lane Departure Warning and Prevention, and Auto High Beam. Six airbags are standard.

Move up to the H and you’ll get drive modes (Eco, Normal, Power), auto headlamps, Adaptive Driving Beam LED headlamps with sequential turn signals, auto retractable wing mirrors, rear armrests, a 7.0 inch TFT multi-info display, a 9.0 inch touchscreen head unit with reverse camera, and front parking sensors.

The range topping AV exclusively gets kit such as semi-leather two-tone seats, EPB with auto brake hold and the 360-degree parking camera. The AV’s active safety kit list adds on Adaptive Cruise Control, Lane Keep Control, Blind Spot Monitor and Rear Cross Traffic Alert. There’s a mention of rear disc brakes in the press release – this could either be for the AV only (as part of the EPB) or standard across the board, we’ll see.

Last but not least, as this is an MPV, seats. The third row is foldable 50:50, while the second row is 60:40 split folding, with a one-touch and slidable mechanism. Boot capacity is just 137 litres with all seats erect, but this can be expanded to 498 litres with the third row seats folded.

Buyers can choose from five colours, three of which are new to the Alza. The fresh coats are Vintage Brown, Garnet Red and Elegant Black; in addition to Glittering Silver and Ivory White. Brown and red are exclusive to the H and AV variants. The standard five-year or 150,000 km warranty applies.

“We took our time in designing this full model change as we truly wanted to understand what improvements our customers wanted, and the new Alza aims to fulfil these requests. One of the many requests was a better driving experience, and to this we have engineered the New Perodua Alza’s ground clearance to be at 160 mm which, in our assessment, is the best height for a pleasant Malaysian drive, for an MPV,” said Perodua president and CEO Datuk Zainal Abidin Ahmad.

“This full model change represents our best effort so far in terms of product offering as the features included are the best within its price category,” he added.

As for pricing, the tentative RRP for the new Alza is RM62,000 for the X, RM68,000 for the H and RM75,000 for the AV. These prices are on-the-road, without insurance for Peninsular Malaysia. The actual prices will be revealed during the official launch, which is set to happen next month. As expected, the prices are higher than the old Alza, which was priced from RM52,661 to RM60,525, if you discount the sub-RM50k manual version.

Bookings made before July 1 will be entitled to SST exemption as long as the vehicle is registered by March 31, 2023, as recently announced by the government.

2022 Perodua Alza 1.5X – RM62,000 est Gets as standard:

2022 Perodua Alza 1.5H – RM68,000 est Adds on:

2022 Perodua Alza 1.5AV – RM75,000 est Adds on:

Dulu Saya beli 2009 Alza RM69.9k 4AT Advanced Spec Metallic Black, Rumah I pun ada Honda Oddysey 2005.

Ini masa lah, trade in 2 for 1 Alza Cross. Ini Cruiser Self Driving ACC, Spacious, Solid, Jimat Minyak untuk traffic Jam, Highway.

Copy paste: “Dompet friendly – but not for B40.

Petrol friendly – as a Perodua owner myself, this is doubtful.

Power friendly – heard that 1.5L for Aruz is a mismatch of body weight & engine power.

Space friendly – depends, usually a 7 seater for sure can fit 7 people, without luggage. With luggage, it’ll probably become 5 seater.. or less.

Comfort pun friendly – can’t judge yet.

Hi-Tech, Solid – err, really? Last time I bought Alza Advanced and thought it was hi tech. But once I got it, I can tell how insignificant the tech was compared to it’s standard or SE variant. Furthermore, I did not enjoy the tech very much. Those times, having a reverse camera is considered hi-tech, but mine was broken in just about 2 years. SC said had to replace the whole unit from media player to the reverse cam – no such thing as replacing the cam only – which kind of strange since the media player is working fine.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying Perodua is bad but sometimes they (Perodua or fanboys) exaggerate. I owned 2 Peroduas at the moment and probably will be buying another Perodua in the future; either this new model or Aruz. Not because I like Perodua or anything, it’s simply because it aligns with my needs and financial capacity and honestly there are not that many cars to choose from.”

They should use this new Transmission for Aruz too..and solve the sluggish / drivetrain mismatched issue

I’m getting this amazing P2 for sure. Change for better.. Ubahh

Tak payah fikir2, tak nak pening kepala, beli jer Perodua.

Membeli kereta tanpa berfikir kerana tak mahu pening, budaya konsumer baru? Ini mesti sebab dulu dah gagal peperiksaan sekolah ni.

now paultan will have at least 20 news posting on the alza…

And that BEFORE THE CAR IS LAUNCHED. Expect another 20 more postings AFTER LAUNCH.

It’s EEV-rated and capable of claimed 22.0 km/l fuel economy in the MDC. Eco Idle auto start-stop is standard. In Indonesia Daihatsu Xenia with 100% on highway with constant 80-100km/hr only manage to get 18km/l. The Eco Idle is merely to get the EEV certification and that’s it. With similar engine and transmission with myvi and getting almost same figure is very doubtful.

First – EEV https://paultan.org/2017/03/27/all-new-models-sold-in-malaysia-to-be-eevs-by-2025-mai/

1001kg-1200kg EEV only need to achieve 6L/100km or 16.7km/L.

but this is Alza, the throttling/D-CVT can be tuned different despite of the same engine. As example, the GR Corolla vs GR Corolla Morizio has different Gear Ratio.

2nd: EEV by MDC the 22km/L is tested based on MDC, Malaysian Driving Cycle. https://paultan.org/2018/11/13/malaysia-driving-cycle-standard-planned-as-part-of-countrys-initiatives-on-fuel-economy-development/

if all Malaysian car tested with MDC, then we can compare fairly.

Yup another 1 million sales for Perodua soon.

Sayonara adios bye bye to Proton Jiaji Exora celup losers.

Interestingly, P2 ahli nujums predicted 1st gen Alza will beat Exora, Aruz will beat X70, Ativa will beat X50 but historically they have been proven wrong in all 3 predictions. If I were a betting with such odds I better keep my money when new Alza comes and not look like a fool to say it will beat X90/Jiaji.

18km/l for a b-seg 7 seater is already good enough, figure provided by official usually hard to get

Get an above RM200k cars

Spec is well engineered for optimized practicality, relaxing drive.

Nice Alza Cross, D-CVT + 360 Auto daptive headlamp, 360 camera, ACC with EPB.

Especially the re-clinable 2nd row, with large arm rest. 5 seater usage @ it best.

There is no brand new 7 seater with ACC in Malaysia below RM275k! Xtrail, Outlander, GLB, Innova, Serena, carnival, Starex, Rush, Aruz, BR-V.. tak ada. Some even don’t have AEB to begin..

This is like RM200,000 burden lifted. Literally Relax driving with lifestyle.

Worth the 70k, with the specs given. Market Aruz pasti terkacau sikit

alza for west malaysia, aruz for east malaysia

Eating right into Aruz & Ativa markets in the 60-70k price range. Only can cannibalise each other P2 sales but not making a dent in that market. P2 mgmt, what are you smoking? You are repeating the same folly that P1 had when they sold Inspira, Preve & Suprima in the same market range.

Apparently, those 3 vehicle have different target market bro. Single & want sporty look car for city use, get Ativa. Need a bit high clearance for rough road but still want to carry more passenger, get Aruz. Nak ambik anak sekolah or family trip around the city, get la the new Alza. It’s also the same for P1. Later P2 or P1 don’t have lot of choices in the same price range pun also bising juga u guys. Lol.

More like Proton Exora gonna get zero sales soon. ;-)

Why do u think they launched the Aruz first before launching the new Alza. They know if the Alza was launched first, nobody will buy the Aruz.

At the end P2 will eat up most of the market shares. They market their product differently as long as the products offered suites the market needs together with good after sales service.

Will Perodua worry about Aruz’s market being cannabalized?

Wah rear disc brake, like first time for perodua car since open shop.

Probably got 22km/l by cruising at a constant speed of 20km/h lol. The advertised fuel economy figures on Protons and Peroduas are so overrated, but then again they can basically say whatever they want without receiving any serious consequences since the Malaysian car market is pretty much under their control.

Wow adaptive driving beam for this kind of price. The spec sheet alone trumps all the German premium brands.

Perodua is the new BMW of Asia. ;-)

You mean where they advertised they have certain features but in production units quietly remove them? Yup, just about right.

why would you lie on the internet?

Butthurt cus its the truth?

Where is android auto and Apple car play?

Went to Toyota Veloz, haha…

Based on this post, only AV variant got 6 airbags. Seriously Perodua? This is family car not economy model like Axia or Bezza to put 6 airbags as standard. Even Ativa and Aruz got 6 airbags as standard across the range. I hope the official specs are not like this.

If you wan’t 6 airbags, u have to pay for it.

Not everyone needs 6 airbags. There are many traders who uses Alza to carry goods. They prefer to save money for such workhorses.

Actually I think you’re mistaken friend. All variants got 6 airbags.

Earlier, PT Writer state that only AV variant got 6 airbags. Now suddenly change every variant got 6 airbags.

Perodua itself issued a correction to its press release saying all models will indeed get six airbags as standard.

P2 got market backlash for it so they change their tune?

owned all of these; proton preve, perodua myvi 1.3 SE, honda br-v spec V, kia cerato k3 1.6, paling steady dan tak pernah ada problem yg pelik-pelik = perodua myvi :)

So many car, got money to do maintenance anot? Or wait 10,000km but 2 years?

Later maintenance policy dilancarkan, habislaa

this new alza will kill xpander/brv sales. similar product but 30k cheaper

and possibly b-seg sedan too…city/almera/vios

Very impressive for a RM75,000 car to have auto fold mirrors, 360 degree cam, auto brake hold. Hopefully this is a wake up call for other manufacturers (as usual) to up their game and not skimp on specs, but I’m not holding my breath here.

nice. now waiting all new bezza with EPB

Everything makes me scream yes except for the lowered ground clearance.

drop of 40mm ground clearance? Not a good move because of so much flash flood nowadays and this restricts a little where it can go especially with the big wheelbase.

A 1.5cc sedan please perodua instead of a 1.5cc 5+2(s) seater mpv.

Even a Kelisa also 1000cc. :)

Ground clearance is on the low side, when fully loaded, undercarriage will get scratch going through off specification speed bump

Totally agree. A real bummer on the lowered ground clearance. Hope they only use lowered springs on the original daihatsu zenia designs. Then we can just replace the springs and get an actual practical mpv.

Somehow I feel perodua is simply taking a shortcut in making the car have better handling instead of coming up with a better spring rate and damper settings.

Admins of Paultan, thanks for all the good news on cars. Your site have been my daily go to site for years now.

Can help those of us who are not rempits or drifters to check if it’s possible to replace the alza springs and shocks with toyota veloz’s or daihatsu zenia’s so we can gain back the 40mm ground clearance which is way more practical to match the practically of the car.

Went to perodua Nibong Tebal this afternoon n booked av with red colour

Perodua should disable the eco idle by default.

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