The BMW Group will be will be ready for any ban on internal combustion engine (ICE) cars from 2030 onwards, CEO Oliver Zipse said earlier this week conference in the town of Nuertingen, near Stuttgart. Speaking on the European Union’s proposed ban on combustion engine cars from 2035 as part of a broader package of measures to combat global warming, Zipse told Reuters, "We will be ICE-ban ready. If a region, a city, a country gets the idea of banning ICEs, we have an offering." "The BMW Group is

Back in March, UMW Toyota Motor (UMWT) launched the Toyota Corolla Cross in Malaysia. Early units of the SUV – all base 1.8G variants – were snapped up pretty quickly, and it was only recently that deliveries of the range-topping 1.8V variant began. Can you get the car before the SST discount expires? The ongoing new car sales and service tax (SST) relief programme expires on 31-December 2021. Under this, locally-assembled (CKD) cars are fully SST-exempt, while fully-imported (CBU) vehicles are

The Honda Civic FE is off to a flying start in Thailand after the company announced the new model has received over 3,500 bookings in just the first month of sales. Honda Thailand expects the new Civic FE to repeat the success of the predecessor Civic FC, by again becoming the best seller in its class. Thailand was the first market in this region to receive the Civic FE, which, like in Malaysia, competes with the Toyota Corolla Altis and Mazda 3. The Honda Civic FE was launched in Thailand early

It appears that the Toyota Corolla Cross will be the next recipient of the GR-Sport treatment, as evident from spyshots from Taiwan. Up front, the Corolla Cross GR-Sport gets a redesigned front bumper, completely different from the US and Japan-market models. It also gets a new gloss black front grille with honeycomb insert. As for the rear-end, the Corolla Cross GR-Sport gets clear-type LED tail lights, a lone GR-Sport emblem on the tailgate, and a more prominent rear diffuser piece. A gloss bl

Toyota Gazoo Racing Team Thailand does it again with a double-podium and class win at last week’s ADAC Total 24 Hours of Nürburgring. A race that the organisers recognise as the “shortest ADAC 24h race in history” with just nine and a half hours of racing. This year, the team soldiered through torrential downpours and poor visibility to finish first and third in the Super Production 3 class at the Nürburgring Nordschleife. A fitting follow-up to their 1-2 class win last year. Despite the team’s

Perodua has just announced that its most popular models have taken the top 3 positions as Malaysia’s best-selling cars of 2020 so far. The Myvi, Axia, and Bezza have taken numbers 1, 2, and 3 respectively. July 2020 saw its best sales month so far with 23,203 vehicles registered, a 9.2% increase from June 2020. That puts Perodua’s year-to-date (YTD) sales total to 97,373 units. With that, Perodua holds an estimated 42% of the YTD market share. This increase in sales is thanks in part by the gove