Perodua's new MD Aminar Rashid Salleh unveiled that they expect a new Perodua Myvi somewhere around April 2011, with a Myvi SE to be launched a couple of months later around June 2011. He also revealed that a new 1.5 litre variant of the Myvi is in the works.

This makes sense since they are already making the transverse-install front wheel drive 1.5 litre 3SZ-VE engine for the Alza.

Apparently the new Myvi will have a new look. It's actually about time for the Myvi to be refreshed, so Perodua is pretty much on schedule for a typical 5 year lifecycle with a facelift in the middle. The Myvi was launched in May 2005 and after 5 years, time for a replacement in the first half of 2011.

In mid-February the Myvi's Japanese cousin refreshed with a new look. Though it's not expected that the Myvi will look 100% like that model as with each new rebadge product, Perodua has been moving away further and further from the JDM model's exterior and interior.

Toyota/Daihatsu has been slowly moving their JDM models to target specific niche markets with very tailor-made products. They have so many little cars based on the same platform over there in Japan, and from the marketing material of the new Passo/Boon, it's quite obvious that the car is now targeted towards young ladies.