Honda Malaysia Racing Team (HMRT) is revving up excitement as they prepare their new Honda City sedan and Hatchback race cars for their much-anticipated return to this year's Sepang 1000km (S1K) endurance race. Typically held in November, the S1K will test the mettle and endurance of both cars over the 9-hour long (~172 lap) race. These 2 race cars, according to HMRT sources, are equipped with the same standard 121 PS/145 Nm 1.5-litre DOHC 4-cylinder engine as a standard car in Honda showrooms,

The recently launched 2023 Honda City sedan Facelift refreshes the company's top-selling model with a host of styling updates, improved creature comforts and inclusion of the Honda Sensing ADAS suite as standard now. Of course, the new additional features and currency fluctuations have resulted in price increases across all variants. Therefore it is reasonable to assume its sibling, the Honda City Hatchback (HB) will also see similar price increases at launch, expected in early 2024. Also read:

VW has announced that it will not develop a new generation VW Golf with a combustion engine after the current Mk8 generation model reaches the end of its lifecycle. The current Golf Mk8 will receive an update next year, after which it will stay on sale until 2030. The VW Golf Mk8, itself a heavily updated Mk7 Golf, was first launched in October 2019. However it only went on sale in Malaysia in 2022. While the Golf as we know it will end by this decade, the Golf nameplate will live on as an EV-on

Data from Kendara.co.id shows the Honda City Hatchback continues to steal the Toyota Yaris' limelight in Indonesia, this time topping the country's June 2021 sales in the hatchback category. With 1,494 units sold, it edges the Yaris' June sales by 306 units (1,188 units). The top 5 are as below: June 2021 hatchback sales in Indonesia Model Sales Honda City Hatchback 1,494 Toyota Yaris 1,188 Suzuki Baleno 159 Volkswagen Polo 12 Mazda 2 Hatchback 6 Also read: All-new VW Polo Mk6 not in VPCM’s plan

Launched very recently in Malaysia is the rally-bred 2020 Toyota GR Yaris. It is probably the most exciting car of 2020. While previously Toyota has mentioned that the the number of Toyota GR Yaris in Malaysia is less than 200, the exact number is still unknown, at least until today. The exact number is 127 units as confirmed by an Instagram post by Mutiara Motors - one of 5 GR Garage dealers allowed to sell the GR Yaris. Malaysia receives the highest allocation in the SEA region. Thailand only

** This article is the personal experience of a 2014 Ford Fiesta ST owner and does not necessarily reflect the views of WapCar. Facebook: Daniel Tan ↓↓↓ Press Here To Share Your Story ↓↓↓ The Ford Fiesta ST It wasn’t my first choice. In fact, it wasn’t even a close second. That honour, as it happened, belonged to the other two of the trio of The Holy Trinity of Superminis that I was planning to replace my ageing dugong Toyota Vios with: the Peugeot 208 GTi and the Renault Clio RS. I was obsessed