Perodua president and CEO Datuk Seri Zainal Abidin Ahmad has told Careta in a video interview that the Bezza in its current form will soldier on until 2030 – no new model is planned for launch in the near future. “I’ll be honest, this was actually the triggering point for (us developing our own BEV), because there were no new models to replace our aging ICE models. Now that we’ve launched the QV-E and are working on the second model, they have started to come back to us to discuss development of the new Bezza and Myvi,” Zainal said. While not explicitly stated, “they” here most likely refers to Perodua’s partner since day one, Daihatsu, which was almost brought to a standstill by a safety scandal in 2023. “It’s just that (the discussions have come) very late, so we can’t get (the new models) out before 2030,” the president and CEO added. The ride-hailing favourite and Malaysia’s best-selling four-wheeled thing for three consecutive years will be celebrating its 10th birthday this year, still based on the old Axia‘s platform. We’d expect the sedan to follow its hatched sister into the Daihatsu New Global Architecture (DNGA) era, with a new in-house-designed ‘top hat’ of course. Six airbags, finally? After all, this 70,000-bookings guy already has six… Theophilus Chin’s next-gen Bezza renderings since 2022 Compare prices between different insurer providers to save the most on your car insurance renewal compared to other competing services. Many payment method supported and you can pay with instalment using Atome, Grab PayLater or Shopee SPayLater.