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• Satria Neo R3 – Driven and Reviewed! Part One

  In Commentary, Reviews / 4 May 2008 / 3 comments

  

  This is certainly a long time coming. The review I mean. Not the car. Ok, well technically, to be accurate, the review of the car. And to be honest, this is probably the hardest review to date. Why? Because the Satria Neo R3 has a lot to live up to as the latest limited edition vehicle from R3, and also because I need to be impartial and brutally honest, being an owner of the Satria R3 – the car that is being ultimately ‘replaced’ by a newer, better-looking platform.

• R3 MME 2006 Driver Selection: Part 1

  In Commentary, Reviews / 21 July 2006 / 2 comments

  As part of its efforts to encourage and develop grassroots motorsports and racing, R3 invited champions of last year’s R3TA (formerly known as SSO or Street ShootOut Series) and several special guests (myself included) to [...]

• Super Satria: Proton Satria R3 Stage 3

  In Commentary, Reviews / 17 July 2006 / 18 comments

  

  Fast forward one year and seven months from its inception, the track-day special Satria R3 has evolved from its humble road-sensible Stage 1 beginnings to the much more powerful Stage 2 form it is today. [...]

• R3-spec Hotbits 4-1 Header + More! A (Mini) Review

  In Commentary, Reviews / 22 June 2006 / 1 comment

  

  Having tolerated the constant buzzing and ringing of the cracked R3-Hotbits stock 4-2-1 header and later fullblown lorry-sounding orchestra after running at Sepang, I got a R3-spec Hotbits 4-1 header installed. Prozac, owner of the [...]

• The Stage 2 Satria R3 LEV Reviewed!

  In Commentary, General, Reviews / 26 August 2005 / 4 comments

  

  From the start, the performance-bred, track day special Satria R3 developed exclusively by Proton Motorsports a.k.a Race Rally Research or R3 for short, had always promised and delivered an engaging ride – a no-frills, no [...]

• The Satria R3 LEV : Life at 2,000 clicks

  In Commentary, Reviews / 7 January 2005 / 1 comment

  “Tweet tweet, tweet tweet”, goes the stock alarm of the black stallion some of us know as the Satria R3. Then the Captor. I open the unfamiliar door and wiggle my way into those snuggly [...]

• The Satria (M24) R3 LEV: First Impressions

  In Commentary, Reviews / 14 December 2004 / 2 comments

  It’s here. Finally. After more than a month’s wait. Was it worth the wait? Here it is guys. Collected my car with much butterflies in the stomach and excitement a 3-year old would demonstrate when [...]