Toyota Malaysia has wrapped up a stellar 2023, achieving its highest-ever sales record and maintaining its position as the top non-national automaker in 2023, for the third year in a row. In 2023, Toyota delivered a total of 108,107 units (inclusive of Toyota and Lexus) surpassing all previous records, and securing approximately 32 percent overall non-national market share in Malaysia. Also read: Toyota stays ahead of Honda as Malaysia's best-selling non-national brand in 2022 with 100k units Da

Despite the all-new 2022 Honda HR-V that is available in our neighbours across ASEAN looking like the Japan-spec Vezel, they are different on the inside. In particular, the infotainment head unit. For Malaysians looking forward to get the all-new HR-V, the wait is nearly over as it along with the all-new BR-V are hinted to be among two new models that Honda Malaysia will launch in 2022. But what is indeed different about that head unit? For starters, the infotainment unit shown in both the Thai-

Full disclosure: this is not a sponsored article. Now that we've got that out of the way, let's dive in. If you're currently shopping for a B-segment sedan, chances are, the Honda City and Toyota Vios are the default 2 choices in your shortlist. Nissan Almera, what's that? Yeah, that's what I thought too when the 2020 model was launched on our shores. 3 months after its launch, you'd still be hard pressed to see Almeras roaming the roads. Conversely, the 2020 Honda City seems to be very well rec

Bound to debut this year, the 2021 Proton Persona and Proton Iriz have been awarded with 5-star ASEAN NCAP ratings based on the 2017-2020 protocol. In a recent press release, ASEAN NCAP mentioned that a full report for the Proton Iriz and Proton Persona will be released in due time. The current report for the Proton Persona/Iriz on the ASEAN NCAP website is based on the pre-2017 protocol, which the cars also received 5-star ratings. A 5-star rating from the 2017-2020 protocols hint at added acti

Once Japan’s No.1 selling car, the Honda Jazz (sold as Fit in Japan) is now languishing in Japan’s sales charts. On certain months, it even bumped off the top-5 list, which is now dominated by Toyota. The new TNGA platform Toyota Yaris (not available outside of Australia, Europe, Japan) is now the No.1 selling car in Japan, followed by the Toyota Raize (twin of Daihatsu Rocky, donor car for upcoming Perodua D55L), Corolla, and Harrier. In certain months, the even the Toyota Alphard sells more th

Proton recently announced its sales performance for Q1 2020 and despite Malaysia going into a nationwide Movement Control Order (MCO) in March, the national carmaker still managed to shift 21,757 units. An improvement of 20.4% compared to the same period in 2019. All Proton’s core models saw an increase in sales between 17 to 602% - the latter for the Proton Iriz. While the Proton X70 saw a decline of 48% in sales (attributed to the transition to the locally-assembled (CKD) model and MCO), it st