Calling all Nismo fans and lovers of Nissans, this one is definitely one shouldn’t miss out on! Nissan is holding a booth over at the ongoing Tokyo Auto Salon Kuala Lumpur (TAS-KL) 2023 at the Malaysia International Trade & Exhibition Centre (MITEC) this weekend (9-11 June 2023). If you want to get official Nismo merchandise, this is the place to be as the Nissan booth is offering merchandise from Nissan’s legendary motorsports division. These include T-shirts and jackets which start from as low

Having gone on sale in Thailand, the 2022 Honda Civic e:HEV is the hybrid variant of the Civic we want, but can't have... yet. Here's closer look at this mean looking, hybrid machine. For Thailand, Honda is offering two variants of the Civic e:HEV: EL+ and RS, which now become the 2 uppermost variants of the Civic range in the Kingdom. Prices are as follows: e:HEV EL+: THB 1,129,000 (~ RM 137k) e:HEV RS: THB 1,259,000 (~ RM 153k) Powering the Civic e:HEV is the same unit that is found on the Acc

Following the Ministry of Finance’s Budget 2022 announcement to exempt electric vehicles (EVs) from taxes, EVs are now generally referred to as tax-free. In October 2021, Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz’s Budget 2022 proposed for EVs (specifically, it’s battery electric vehicles or BEVs) to be made tax-free. Some buyers confused this to include sales tax. However, the Malaysia Automotive Association (MAA) has since clarified that the tax-free reference only refers to import

Just days ahead of its official debut, more photos of the all-new 2022 Honda Civic FE have surfaced, this time allegedly outside an unspecified Honda production facility. This time around, there are a number of Civic variants in the photo, though specific variants remain under wraps for now. That said, if you look closely, the silver and white Civics towards the rear could be sportier variants, since they get gloss black finishing around the windows, wheels, and side mirrors. It also appears tha

Tonight at 8.30 pm, UMW Toyota Motor will be live streaming (in 8D audio, a first for a local car launch) the launch of its Toyota Corolla Cross, the company’s most important new model for 2021. To be priced not too far away from a Corolla Altis, the Corolla Cross will fill the void left behind by the now-discontinued (in Malaysia) Toyota C-HR. UPDATE: Toyota Corolla Cross has been launched, priced from RM 124k, details here. Curiously, the Corolla Cross’s mechanicals are almost identical to the

The quirky-but-stylish Toyota C-HR has been quietly dropped from UMW Toyota Motor’s line-up, leaving a vacant spot that will be soon filled by the 2021 Toyota Corolla Cross. The Toyota Corolla Cross, unlike the made-in-Thailand Toyota C-HR, is expected to be locally-assembled (CKD) at UMWT’s manufacturing subsidiary Assembly Services Sdn. Bhd.’s (ASSB) second plant in Bukit Raja. Local assembly should allow UMWT to price the Corolla Cross more competitively against its rivals and hopefully not r