Plastics are everywhere around us. From the containers we use to pack lunches to even the air we breathe the electronic device you’re reading this article on. It’s also in cars and the average vehicle has 30,000 parts. Out of those, one-third or 10,000 of those parts are made of plastic so even if the material is hazardous to the environment, we’re very much reliant on it. Mazda though has a solution for a more environmentally friendly plastic and it has been developing it for years before carbo

Hybrids now account for more than half of Thailand’s D-segment sedan market – which has now been reduced to only a two-car race, following the discontinuation of the Nissan Teana there. The Toyota Camry and Honda Accord are the only two volume sellers in the segment. The Camry has a 64 percent market share, while the rest is from the Honda Accord. According to data compiled by headlightmag, hybrids contribute nearly 53 percent of the Toyota Camry’s sales (52.9 percent), likewise for the Honda Ac

Honda Malaysia has delivered over 39,000 cars in the first half of 2022, up 60 percent when compared to the same six-month period in 2021. From the six months, March was an incredibly strong month for Honda, with more than 10,500 units sold. The results also gave Honda a 12 percent market share in Malaysia’s new car sales. With this, Honda Malaysia is confident that it can hit its 2022 sales target of 80,000 units. In terms of sales performance by models, the City was the best-selling model, con

The COVID-19 pandemic has certainly put a damper on global car sales. According to data collected from Germany’s VDA, passenger vehicle sales in the largest car markets in the world contracted by 15% last year to 56 million vehicles from 65.5 million in 2019. Still, there can only be one car that represents that country’s best-seller. However, we won’t be filling up this article with one from every country in the world. That would be a pretty long list. Instead, we will select 25 countries sorte

Mazda Corporation has announced a worldwide product recall to replace its fuel pump as a precautionary measure and according to Bermaz Motor, the sole distributor of Mazda vehicles in Malaysia, a total of 19,685 units of Mazda vehicles are affected. The models affected are the Mazda 2, Mazda 3, Mazda 6, CX-3, CX-5 & CX-9 manufactured between 2017 – 2019. All 2020 production models however are not affected in this recall. The product recall is necessary as a preventive measure to address the poss

After being absent from the Malaysian market for about two years, Hyundai's D-segment model is set to return to Malaysia as Hyundai-Sime Darby Motors (HSDM) has just previewed the all-new 2020 Hyundai Sonata in Malaysia. This isn’t the first time that we’ve been up close and personal with the all-new Hyundai Sonata, as we’ve seen the car before at Hyundai Motor Company’s (HMC) regional training centre. It’s worth mentioning that the unit we first saw wasn’t destined for the Malaysian market as i