Start with what the Proton Perdana is: a 4-door sedan with Petrol engine, built from 2013 to 2020, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. What it meant takes a little longer. The shape is credited to Bostami Ahmad / Daisuke Sawai (Accord).
The background
The second generation Proton Perdana is a mid-sized four-door saloon from Malaysian automobile manufacturer Proton. It was unveiled on 11 December 2013 as the successor to the original Proton Perdana, and is a badge engineered version of the eighth generation Honda Accord. Perdana is the Malay language word for Prime.
The engineering
The engine is Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. On the scales it comes to 1535 kg. Drive goes through a 5-speed automatic. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2800 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
In the Proton line-up the Proton Perdana has a clear place: it replaced the Proton Perdana (first generation); the factory was Malacca. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Infiniti Q50, the Tesla Model X, the Peugeot 208. Its Proton stablemates include the Proton Arena and the Proton EMAS.