BMW i3 and i8 concepts feature new LifeDrive platform
These are the BMW i3 and the i8 Concepts, the two members of the new BMW i family that BMW previewed last week at Messe Frankfurt. The BMW i3 was originally known …
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Volkswagen.Das Auto.Show 2011 happens this weekend at the Bukit Jalil Stadium carpark – admission is free!
Volkswagen Group Malaysia is looking forward to being a bigger player in the Malaysian market, and will soon have some locally assembled models to fight alongside the brand's fully imported variants. The …
Rolling in electric – We drive the battery powered Rolls-Royce 102EX a.k.a. Phantom Experimental Electric!
Oil is a finite resource, something we cannot enjoy forever, certainly not at the rate the world is burning today. Downsizing is the "in thing" of the auto industry today, which is …
Proton P3-21A Persona R prototype teases its tail lamps
Whenever we've seen the new P3-21A C-segment Proton sedan so far, it's always been very heavily disguised to the point that even the tail lamp design are not only just taped up, …
New Segment: Malaysian Automotive Association Vehicle Sales Data for July 2011
We're introducing a new segment in this website to show you who are the real movers and shakers in the industry. Why does Tan Chong still sell the Sentra? How many units …
Goodyear introduces two new Eagle F1 performance tyres
Goodyear recently launched two new tyres in the Ultra High Performance (UHP) segment in Malaysia, where the Eagle F1 Assymmetric 2 and Eagle F1 Directional 5 were shown to Goodyear dealers, car …
Next generation Perodua Viva wishful thinking rendering based on 2011 Daihatsu A-Concept
Remember the lime green Daihatsu A-Concept that was showcased at the Indonesia International Motor Show earlier this year? It was a concept car developed with the involvement of Indonesians with the technical …
The ladies of IIMS – 100 pics for you to feast your eyes on!
It was a hectic few days in Jakarta for us, and the "battle scars" that we brought home include diarrhea, fever and brains implanted with vehicle horn blasts of various tunes. They're …
IIMS: Daihatsu A-Concept – by Indonesia, for the world
Daihatsu has unveiled its latest concept car at the 2011 Indonesian International Motor Show - the Daihatsu A-Concept, which includes the involvement of Indonesians with the support of Daihatsu Japan. After learning …
INTERVIEW: We chat with Glenn Tan of Tan Chong International, on Subaru’s plans for Malaysia
An unexpected and truly surprising piece of news hit us last week, when Fuji Heavy Industries inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Tan Chong Group to assemble Subaru vehicles in …
BMW ConnectedDrive – making for a smarter, safer drive
As far as technological showcases go, there’s nothing like bombing them to bits with an absolute flood of tech - there’s certainly enough of that in the BMW ConnectedDrive arsenal, covering a …
2011 Perodua Myvi – full details and first impressions
Click to enlarge The Perodua Myvi first arrived on the scene in May 2005. With 487,400 units sold since then, the five-door hatchback has certainly been popular with the public – that …
Dany Bahar: If we couldn’t afford it, we wouldn’t do it
Group Lotus has been making the headlines regularly of late. We were there to witness the Proton owned brand's five car blast at last year Paris show, which will now be financed …
INTERVIEW: Casey Hyun, Creative Design Manager at Hyundai Motor Company and designer of the Sonata YF
In the previous part of this story, we looked at how Hyundai has moved on to the next phase of its evolution. Instead of focusing on just undercutting rivals on price and …
Embracing new thinking, searching for new possibilities: We look at the next phase in Hyundai’s evolution
The statement 'The Koreans are coming' is about as outdated as the Backstreet Boys. They were coming in the past decade, even up until a few years ago, but with this latest …
BMW ConnectedDrive – paving the way to total integration
Integration. It sounds simple enough, but given the way the world has become these days, the idea has complexity written all over it. Gone are the days when a car had features …
Toyota: Lesson learnt, and learnt well
Reputations are a funny thing. You can build one up through years of toiling, to a point that you think it’s bomb-proof, and wake up one day and find that it has …
Shell Track Lab – working for Ferrari within Ferrari
We were fortunate to be among the journalists hosted by Shell over the Singapore GP last month - not only did we get to watch the exciting race under the stars (my …
Not all fuels are the same – we dig deeper into Shell V-Power
Not all fuels are the same, Shell says. Really? We spend a weekend with Malaysia's market leader in fuel and learned more about what makes their performance fuel V-Power special. V-Power made …
Peugeot Automotive Design Network – The Lion’s Den
Back in April, we were privileged to be part of the international press launch of the Peugeot RCZ, which is not only great to look at, but very nice to drive as …
