It's all but confirmed that the 2022 Proton X70 facelift's 1.5-litre turbocharged three-cylinder engine – which debuted with the Proton X50 – will find its way into not just the 2023 Proton X90, but other new models as well (first Geely-based sedan?) Speaking at the media tour of Proton’s Engine Factory in Tanjung Malim earlier today, Proton Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Roslan Abdullah said that the "1.5 TGDi engine and its variants will play an increasingly important and prominent role in ou

At NEXTGen Malaysia, an event on sustainability and electrified mobility, BMW Group Malaysia has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with its partners, MGTC, TNB, and Siemens Malaysia, to further develop the ecosystem and infrastructure for Electric Vehicles in the country. This follows the announcement by BMW Malaysia that it will be installing DC fast chargers on all BMW dealerships across the country, which will be open to EVs of all makes. Also read: BMW Malaysia: Our dealers’ DC fast

2020 Proton X70 CKD – Jet Grey vs Space Grey? Proton introduced a brand new colour into the new locally-assembled (CKD) Proton X70 range in 2020, a colour known as Space Grey. This brings the total number of colours for the popular SUV to 6 - Snow White, Armour Silver, Jet Grey, Cinnamon Brown, Flame Red, and Space Grey. Which of the greys are nicer? Proton X70 Jet Grey vs Proton X70 Space Grey? Honestly, we think that the Proton X70 Space Grey is a rather flat, and doesn’t do much to bring out

If you have RM 250k or thereabouts for a premium SUV, frankly you'd be spoiled for choice, Mercedes-Benz GLA and BMW X1 being the most obvious candidates. But how about a Japanese face-off for today? We're talking about the Toyota Harrier and Lexus UX. Yes they are cars from different segments but in terms of price, they are perilously close to each other. For this comparison, we pit the Toyota Harrier 2.0 Luxury (one variant only, RM 249,706) against the Lexus UX Urban (RM 243,888) as they are

It’s a fruitful year for Honda in Thailand as the marque chalked up another win - this time having their 2020 Honda Civic outselling the Toyota Corolla Altis, Mazda 3 and Nissan Sylphy combined - from January to June in Thailand this year. Headlightmag reports that a total of 15,252 C-segment cars were sold in that period. Of that figure, Honda delivered 8,656 Civics - commanding a 56.8% market share. Second in line was Toyota with 5,266 (34.5%) Corolla Altis sold and Mazda came in third with 1,

Suzuki has just introduced the 2020 Suzuki Across, its latest plug-in hybrid SUV based on the Toyota RAV4. The Suzuki Across is the second model to be introduced following Toyota and Suzuki’s announcement for their plans for collaboration back in 2017. The first model that came to fruition is the Toyota Glanza, which is essentially a rebadged Suzuki Baleno. Design-wise, the Suzuki Across gets slim LED headlights (which looks identical to the China market Toyota Wildlander) and a rounder-looking