It wasn’t that long ago that Swedish marque Volvo was considered a sideliner in the Malaysian automotive landscape. While its German opposition sold in vast numbers, the little Swede was just that – little. It sold enough cars to keep the showrooms & service centres going with no compromise in quality, and profits were most […]
“But would you rather have an AMG C43?” Coupés have not traditionally been given alot of thought in this country. Perhaps due to our Asian obsession with practicality and value, two-door vehicles have always been seen as one of the penultimate flights of fancy, superseded only by the cabriolet. And at RM416,888 for the 2019 […]
At their bi-annual sales performance event held in the capital city, Perodua President & CEO Dato’ Zainal Abidin Ahmad announced that in compliance with upcoming safety standards, the Malaysian automotive heavyweight will be including blind-spot monitoring technology in the majority of its lineup, in order to ensure and maintain a full 5-star ANCAP rating for […]
Here’s one for the tailgaters – it seems that Perodua will look into making a tarted-up Myvi after all.
Company now realigns its annual sales target from 231,000 vehicles to 235,000 vehicles for 2019.
Malaysians are keeping their eye on the horizon. The ‘X50’ is set to be the next SUV model from the marque, offering all of the appeal of the larger X70 with a more approachable pricetag.
Sometimes things just fall into place. It was a Tuesday morning when I got a phone call from a communications executive at Mercedes-Benz. Hey, she said, we have a C300 AMG-Line this weekend, would you like to have a go? My mind immediately leapt to thoughts of the panoramic sunroof, the AMG-Line steering wheel, and […]
Superlative. Unsurpassed. Unrivaled. These are the sort of words that you will find peppered throughout any sort of editorial about the Mercedes-Benz S-Class. The Sonderklasse was for a long time truly in a class of its own, a thoroughly modern luxury limousine that always paved the way for others to follow. And even when it […]
It can be difficult to accept for many, like yours truly, that the end is nigh for the internal combustion engine. While we rally around carmakers like Mazda who appear to have bought us some time with their revolutionary SkyActiv-X compression-ignition petrol mills, the reality is that the motoring industry is moving sharply towards zero-emissions […]
Let’s talk about what differentiates the top-10% from the top-1%, shall we?