Proton Commerce, a joint venture between Proton’s sales arm Proton Edar, and CIMB Bank announced today that it disbursed a total of 27,288 loans to Proton car buyers in Malaysia in 2023. The figure is a new high for Proton Commerce, rising in tandem with Proton’s recent record of 154,611 units sold – its highest since 2012. This also means that 18 percent of Proton cars sold last year were financed by Proton Commerce. The Proton Saga is the financing arm’s most important model, contributing 61 p

UPDATE for July 2023: For a limited time period, CARSOME is offering an additional 1+1 year warranty for selected units of Honda City and Toyota Vios. Find out more here. ------------------ In the battle of the B-Segment family sedan, two names reign supreme. For well over a decade, many car buyers moving on from their first car or ones that are starting a family would’ve likely have had to pick between the proven Honda City or Toyota Vios. As the all-new 2023 Toyota Vios now takes centre stage,

The Proton Satria Neo is the only Malaysian car to date that has ever been sold officially in Japan but it’s not exactly a model meant for the public. Rather, the Malaysian hatchback is sold by aftermarket parts producer, Cusco via its Carrosser distribution network for motorsports purposes. Sold between 2011 and 2018, most of these Satria Neos competed in rallying tournaments across Japan and were favourable according to some reviewers. Still, these cars remained road-legal despite the parts fi

Malaysians said goodbye to these 12 models in 2021 Some were discontinued due to poor sales, others due to age Which will you miss fondly? Once again, the big blue planet that we currently reside on has made its full orbit around the sun and the year 2020 v2.0 2021 ends. While some might remain optimistic that 2022 might be better with a huge array of upcoming models, we’d like to dedicate this article to the cars that won’t make it into the new year. Some of these models were revered by their o

The results are in! Well it’s not the prices that are finally announced but the Proton X50 has scored a 5-star rating for ASEAN NCAP. However, its overall score is lower than its larger sibling, the X70. The X50 is Proton’s seventh model that underwent the ASEAN NCAP assessment. While the model tested is a Standard variant which is the lowest-spec model on offer with 4 airbags, it is the norm for crash test labs to use the base model in their tests. The X50’s occupant compartment remained intact

Well ahead of its official debut, spyshots depicting the next generation Toyota Yaris have surfaced on social media. Seen here is the all-new fourth generation Toyota Yaris, based on Toyota’s GA-B platform, a derivative of its modular TNGA platform that is aimed at B-segment cars. Unlike the current Toyota Yaris, whereby different regions had their own version of the Yaris (North America, Europe, and Asean have their own versions), we expect Toyota to introduce the Yaris across all regions as on