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sal
1st February 2008, 16:57
Story in the weeks Motor Sport news in the UK that Mellors Elliott (MEM) who have a long association with Proton are building a S2000 car based on the current Satria. Apparantley the project was initially backed by Proton who then changed their minds but now they are back behind the car. Homogolation is imminent but no specific programme has yet been announced yet. Picture in the paper shows a car up on stands which even in that state looks quite purposeful. Will be nice to see it in action!

HaCo
1st February 2008, 17:03
That's the car:
http://livincars.com.my//upload/item/5d1c2bf2-9174-41f1-85db-6c9739a8626d/Proton-Neo-S2000-build-1.jpg
I hope we will see in it action VERY soon! :D

Tom206wrc
1st February 2008, 19:58
Me too :p :

Sulland
1st February 2008, 21:36
Anyone who knows how finished this project is ?

Chassis
Engine
First test
Homologation and so on ?

RS
1st February 2008, 21:47
Homologation should be around the middle of the year, July I think.

Karbonyl
2nd February 2008, 12:40
Engine could be developed by Lotus Engineering, as this company belong to Proton also.

J4MIE
2nd February 2008, 14:01
Looks great :up:

HaCo
2nd February 2008, 19:00
Jep, in Autosport it was told too that homologation should be in July. First rally in June, some motorshow. A previous British National Rally champion would run it in BRC for some rounds.
They are looking for customers (and are in contact) that want to run IRC/ERC. Nothing about an official entry of Proton in IRC.

ste898
2nd February 2008, 22:30
Looks great.......cant wait to see it out on the stages

Rally Hokkaido
18th March 2008, 12:01
Here's part of an interesting press release issued yesterday by the Malaysian Rally Ch'ship organiser:

Malaysia's top rally driver, Karamjit Singh has vowed to defend his title at this year's FELDA-AAM Malaysian Rally Championship (MRC).

"We hope to win the MRC overall title for a second time despite strong competition coming from the local teams," said Karamjit, adding that his team, Karamjit Motorsport, would be using a Proton Satria Neo 2000cc this year instead of last year's Mitsubishi Evolution.

It doesn't actually say S2000 car, though TNFers will remember which team ran Karam's PCWRC campaign....yes, Mellors!

uncoversport
18th March 2008, 15:05
Here's part of an interesting press release issued yesterday by the Malaysian Rally Ch'ship organiser:

Malaysia's top rally driver, Karamjit Singh has vowed to defend his title at this year's FELDA-AAM Malaysian Rally Championship (MRC).

"We hope to win the MRC overall title for a second time despite strong competition coming from the local teams," said Karamjit, adding that his team, Karamjit Motorsport, would be using a Proton Satria Neo 2000cc this year instead of last year's Mitsubishi Evolution.

It doesn't actually say S2000 car, though TNFers will remember which team ran Karam's PCWRC campaign....yes, Mellors!

MEM is still not saying much about plans for the car. According to this though the build of its first complete vehicle isn't too far away, which means it could be ready to race by mid year, so the timing fits with your theory.

http://www.serviceparknews.com/?c=127&a=1184

J4MIE
18th March 2008, 16:04
Well it sounds as though it is progressing, and hopefully they can develop it enough to attract enough customers to continue. Just looking at that photo again, it looks very similar to the MG :)

GigiGalliNo1
14th April 2008, 06:56
"British outfit Mellors Elliot Motorsport is believed to be developing a Super 2000 Proton Satria that would be eligible for the Intercontinental Rally Challenge, amongst other championships.

While details are still sketchy on the Satria’s development, its believe the company has some level of support for the project from the Malaysian manufacturer.

The S2000 Satria is expected to be complete in time for homologation in mid 2008, allowing it to contest events in the latter half of this season according to RallyeMagazine.de. The car would be eligible for the IRC, Australian and British Rally Championships, among others, and position the small manufacturer well should the World Rally Championship ever adopt the regulations as a replacement for the current World Rally Cars.

Mellors Elliot Motorsport, otherwise known as the MEM World Rally Team, as a long standing relationship with the Malaysian-government owned Proton. The British organisation run the successful rally program of Malaysian driver Karamjit Singh, who won three Asia Pacific Rally Championship crowns and one Production World Rally Championship in the MEM WRT-prepared Proton Pert – essentially a Mitsubishi Lance Evo.

While there’s little details about the car currently available, German publication RallyeMagazine.de reports that Lotus cars – a sportscar company renowned for making lightweight, high powered vehicles that was purchased by Proton – could be building the engine for the Super 2000 project. The publication didn’t speculate on whether the new project would see Singh, who won the Malaysian Rally Championship last season, return to the world stage."

GigiGalliNo1
21st April 2008, 13:39
More news? but mostly more Photos! :D

http://www.serviceparknews.com/?c=154&a=1373

Mirek
21st April 2008, 13:51
I like the car :)

J4MIE
21st April 2008, 15:51
Now that's what a rally car should look like!

:D :up:

wwbroe
21st April 2008, 16:54
Yes, great looking car, let's hope it is going to be as good as it looks. ;)

306 Cosworth
21st April 2008, 17:44
That's a fantastic looking car, hope it does some national events over here to test it out when it's ready :D

urabus-denoS2000
21st April 2008, 19:17
Great looking car,I hope that Proton will support the project and that the car will make a international career

Paul.G
21st April 2008, 23:04
A couple more photos here:

Rallynotes - Proton (http://www.rallynotes.co.uk/uk-news/development-continues-on-the-proton-mem-s2000.html)

We are due to go over and see them next month to do a story on the car as they wanted us to wait until it is ready, so not long to wait for all the details

Paul

Sulland
8th June 2008, 10:17
According to another thread something should happen soon !

Follow this page: http://www.memuk.com/

c4
8th June 2008, 12:58
Car I believe is due for homologation July 1st.

TheFlyingTuga
9th July 2008, 16:47
Any news about the car? Never heard more about it!!
Car seems to be finish, but there's no testing :(

ProRally
9th July 2008, 16:56
FIA is fine tuning the ratio for the X Trac gearbox apparantly and allowed Proton differant options and homologation would/could be for 1 august.

That is what the grapevine sounds like :D :D

Maui J.
19th August 2008, 00:42
Found some photos on Flickr. This first two are interesting with the Petronas livery.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27284833@N02/2688198643/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27284833@N02/2688198749/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27284833@N02/2688199597/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27284833@N02/2689012092/

There's a few more there if you go to the user's photostream.

Apologies if these have been posted before.