Next year, selected markets in Southeast Asia will launch a new hybrid variant of the 2024 Toyota Hilux. Unlike the electrified Hilux that was announced for Europe earlier this month, our region’s Hilux hybrid will have two more forward ratios, courtesy of a new 8-speed automatic transmission. We had the opportunity (albeit a very brief one) to drive the new 2024 Toyota Hilux hybrid in Thailand recently. The car is still a prototype and the final specifications have yet to be revealed. Despite t

Although the new generation 2024 Mitsubishi Triton made its global debut in Thailand earlier this year, Mitsubishi Motors has yet to put its highest specification Triton Athlete variant on sale. This is also why Mitsubishi Motors Malaysia has yet to launch the 2024 Mitsubishi Triton here. Launching the company’s most important model without its most important, image-building Athlete variant would have been silly. At the going Thailand International Motor Expo, Thai dealers have indicated that th

Peter Pan novelist, J.M. Barrie once said, “to live would be an awfully big adventure,” but can you truly live without a sense of adventure? And if so, wouldn’t you want to go further than anyone else - with the next-generation 2022 Ford Ranger, now you can. Recently launched in Malaysia, the next-gen 2022 Ranger is the smartest, most versatile and capable Ranger yet, designed to inspire a new generation of owners to carve their own paths and Live the Ranger Life to the fullest. Here are 7 thing

The cost to locally-assemble (CKD) a new model have tripled in the last 10 years, says Kia distributor Dinamikjaya Motors, whose parent company Bermaz Auto holds 33.3 percent of Kia Malaysia, the manufacturing arm of the Korean marque here. While Kia Malaysia and Bermaz Auto declined to reveal the amount invested into local manufacturing, we understand that it is a low-mid range 8-digit sum, in Ringgit. Speaking at a press conference yesterday, Executive Chairman Dato' Sri Ben Yeoh explained tha

TC Trucks Sales Sdn Bhd (TCTS) has just officially launched its latest showroom in Bukit Indah, Johor Bahru as its commitment to expand its nationwide network in the southern region. Given Johor Bahru’s growing population and close proximity to Singapore, TCTS’s expansion down south seems right. The city’s strategic location and the strong business growth trends arising out of the various large investments and property development in the region make it a perfect combination for business sense. T

As the all-new 2022 Mazda 6 sedan moves closer and closer to seeing light of day, Mazda has shared with us a glimpse of what the underpinnings look like. The company has also today revealed outlined its Sustainable Zoom Zoom 2030 product plan, where we get a first look at the all-new platform's hardware. Also read: Look hard enough, and you will see the all-new 2022 Mazda 6’s inline 6-cylinder engine It's no secret that Mazda aspires to move upmarket, and as such have developed an all-new inline