Today, Honda Malaysia unveiled its business roadmap for 2024, including a 95,000-unit sales goal for 12.8% market share in our market. The goal also includes the introduction of two new models, one of which could be the Honda City Hatchback facelift. Mr. Hironobu Yoshimura, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Honda Malaysia, remarked, "Despite the anticipated challenges in the automotive industry in 2024, Honda Malaysia remains steadfast in its pursuit of elevating success to new he

Honda Malaysia announced today that it has achieved its annual sales target for 2023, surpassing 80,000 units in total sales. This accomplishment marks the tenth consecutive year that Honda Malaysia has retained its No.1 position in the Non-National Passenger Vehicle Segment since 2014. The year 2023 witnessed gradual recovery and a positive outlook, with the launches of four new models in the second half of the year: WR-V, City facelift, Civic Type R, and the all-new CR-V. Top selling Honda mod

The 2023 Nissan Almera (N18) has been updated in Malaysia, and the small upgrade finally brings Android Auto smartphone compatibility to the model. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Nissan Malaysia (@nissanmalaysia) For the longest time – since its local launch in 2020 – the Honda City, Toyota Vios rival only came with Apple CarPlay support. This new addition brings the car on-par with the named rivals above, which had both options since long ago. However, there is no official word ye

Perodua has confirmed that the next-generation Perodua Alza (D27A) will be their next model launch that is happening in 2022. Dato’ Zainal Abidin Ahmad, Perodua President and CEO said at a Perodua Myvi media event that the company is studying when is the best time to introduce the next-gen Alza but it is confirmed to be in 2022. Research and development of the next-gen Alza are now in its final stages of testing and pilot production. The production line at Perodua’s manufacturing plant in Rawang

Daihatsu Motor Co., Ltd. has announced that it will suspend operations at one of its plants for a couple of days next month, citing an expected parts shortage. The affected facility is the company's second plant in Shiga (Ryuo), and it will be closed for two days, on 12-July and 19-July 2021. Other factories are unaffected. The plant manufactures the Perodua Ativa's Japanese cousins, the Daihatsu Rocky and Toyota Raize. Other than that, it also assembles the Daihatsu Tanto, Chiffon, and Move Can

As all Malaysians know, taxes weigh very heavily in pushing car prices up in our country. The government relies on the car industry to fill up over RM 10 billion worth of taxes annually. Free-trade agreements aside, the only way to go around this is to assemble the cars locally, but this only allows a manufacturer to skip the 30 percent import duty. The elephant in the room is excise duty, which ranges between 75 percent to 105 percent depending on engine capacity and body type. Excise duty appl