PROTON EXORA - Technical information

The detail of Proton Exora Chassis.

Proton Exora MPV is blessed by a monocoque chassis with a 2,730mm wheelbase. Using a car-like monocoque chassis gives it superior ride comfort and handling over body-on-frame rivals. It rides on MacPherson struts at the front and a torsion beam at the rear. Development time for this chassis benefitted from many ideas and experiences gained from developing the Saga and Savvy’s platforms, which also use a similiar suspension setup.

Thus in some ways you could say the Exora chassis is a larger and stronger version of the Saga chassis because the people who were behind the development are the same, thus its only natural that some ideas and techniques are reused.

An improvement over all Proton models is the usage of a Body Control Module. It essentially controls some various basic car functions such as wipers, signal lamps, brake lamps, and etcetera. It allows Proton to program some intelligence into various car features so that in some cases they might even function automatically when deemed needed, instead of everything having to require some kind of driver input or activation to work. Alot of modern cars already have the ability to do all of these so Proton has caught up. Here are the features that the BCM allowed Proton to add to the Proton Exora:

Proton Exora Body Control Module

A battery saver for room lamps, luggage and key ring illumination. These turn off after 30 seconds to ensure they do not make your battery flat if for some reason they are left in a situation where they are on all the time.

Follow-me-home headlamps stay on for a certain period of time to help light up your walkway when you park and want to enter your house.
The battery level for the remote key is indicated on the car’s instrument panel briefly when you turn the ignition on. The remote key has a range of 20 meters.
The remote control will not work if your front door is not closed. The vehicle will also remind you if you activate a remote command if the rear door is not closed.
There is a door open indicator on the instrument panel that indicates exactly which door, engine bay hood or rear hatch is not closed.

There is a door opening warning when you reach a speed of 7km/h if any doors are open. Tap feature for the signal indicator stalk. This is similiar to alot of modern cars - you just have to tap the indicator stalk (not press fully) for the signal to flash 3 times to indicate a lane change and stop automatically, no need to press fully to turn on and reach for it again to deactivate it.

Dim-in and dim-out feature for the interior room lamps - Proton says this is better for the eyes at night and it also adds a certain touch of class. The interior room lamps turn off automatically after you lock the car, or they also stay on for 30 seconds and then fade out in 2.8 seconds. When you unlock the car, the room light fade-in in 3.4 seconds.

Front and rear wiper washer drip wiping - automatically wipe to remove excess water. What happens is when you operate the front washer, it will wipe 4 times and then pause for 5 seconds and then wipe one more time, to remove all the excess water effectively. This is because some of the washer liquid from the top of the windscreen will slowly drip down after the initial wiping, so the last wipe completely removes the washer water.
Programmable front wiper interval. This can be anything from 1 seconds to 25 seconds. The default is 4 seconds. This is how you program it - you put it into INT and then back to off. Then you wait for the duration you want and turn switch it to INT again. The time duration you waited will become the new interval, up to a max of 25 seconds.
The rear wiper turns on automatically when you engage reverse gear if your front wipers are on. If in SLOW mode, the front wiper changes mode to INT mode when you bring the MPV to a complete stop, let’s say in a traffic jam in the rain.

The remote unlocks the drivers door only if pushed once - probably push twice to unlock all doors. Apparently you are able to configure this to unlock all doors at once by default. There is an alarm activation history kept but I am not sure how to access it, perhaps only at the service center.

The doors will lock automatically once you reach a speed of 20km/h.
The doors will unlock automatically once you remove the key from the key barrel.
All doors unlock automatically upon a crash via a signal coming from the airbag control unit. If you perform any sudden braking at speeds of at least 96km/h, the hazard lights will flash automatically.


Exora Weight and Dimensions Comparison

Below you can see a weight and dimensions comparison between the Exora and its similiarly-priced Rivals. The Exora is actually longer and wider than the Innova but it is much lighter, instead being closer to the Grand Livina’s weight despite being a bigger vehicle. For Avanza (1.3/1.5) i believed easily can be smoke by Exora.

A step a head for proton (i guess). Anyway good job PROTON. A nation pride.


Please view the table below after the jump!

	Exora	Livina 1.6	Avanza 1.5	Rondo	Innova
Kerb Weight	1,380kg	1,245kg	1,120kg	1,619kg	1,575kg
Length	4,592mm	4,420mm	4,150mm	4,545mm	4,580mm
Width	1,809mm	1,690mm	1,630mm	1,800mm	1,755mm
Height	1,691mm	1,590mm	1,695mm	1,650mm	1,755mm
Wheelbase	2,730mm	2,600mm	2,655mm	2,700mm	2,750mm
Height	1,691mm	1,590mm	1,695mm	1,650mm	1,755mm
Fuel Tank	55L	52L	45L	55L	55L
MPV+7 Weight	1,880kg	1,745kg	1,620kg	2,119kg	2,075kg
MPV+2+5 Weight	1,730kg	1,595kg	1,470kg	1,969kg	1,925kg
Horsepower	125hp	105hp	107hp	145hp	136hp
Torque	150Nm	150Nm	141Nm	189Nm	182Nm
MPV+7 kg per Hp	15.04	16.62	15.14	14.61	15.26
MPV+7 kg per Nm	12.53	11.60	11.48	11.21	11.40

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