Honda Malaysia has officially opened the order books for the 2023 Honda WR-V in Malaysia, bringing greater clarity to its specifications to expect for our market. The company's site lists the upcoming compact SUV to run on a 1.5-litre DOHC naturally-aspirated engine, shared with the City and City Hatchback, with a 121 PS/145 Nm output from the four-cylinder mill paired to a CVT automatic transmission. The model will be available with an RS variant that sports a newly designed RS emblem, unique F

The Honda WR-V is a latecomer into Indonesia’s fast growing budget SUV market. Up until last year, the A-segment SUV was dominated by the Toyota Raize / Daihatsu Rocky duo – Indonesian twins of our Perodua Ativa. All that changed when the Honda WR-V was launched in November 2022 and deliveries started in December. Within 3 months, Honda is now sitting on over 5,000 outstanding orders and as of February 2023, the Honda WR-V controls over 40 percent of Indonesia’s A-SUV segment. Cumulative 2023 sa

The trifecta of the Perodua Axia-Toyota Agya-Daihatsu Ayla is complete with the unveiling of the all-new 2023 Daihatsu Ayla in Indonesia. Revealed mere days following its Toyota and Perodua derivatives, the all-new Ayla shares the same DNGA platform as the other two. Though both the Ayla and Agya are essentially twins, details on the powertrain are only revealed during the Ayla's launch. Two new engines are announced, a naturally-aspirated (NA) 1.2-litre WA-VE 3-cylinder engine and a 1.0-litre V

2023 sales target of 314,000 units, up 11.3 percent from 2021 2023 production target of 330,000 units, which is 103% of the available capacity Perodua forecasts Malaysia’s TIV to be at 705,000 units, higher than MAA’s 650,000 units Buoyed by strong demand for budget-friendly cars that the general public can trust, Perodua saw its best-ever sales in 2022 with 282,019 cars sold and along the way, became the 4th largest automotive brand in ASEAN's Top 5 biggest markets. This year, Perodua is target

Depending on who you ask, depreciation can be a good or bad thing. In this case, depreciation has played its part, lowering the car’s price nicely. In this case, the Proton Saga is one such example. The current-generation Proton Saga, albeit in its pre-facelift form, can be had from as low as RM 29k. Overview of the 2016 Proton Saga with 1.3L VVT engine Introduced back in 2016, the third-generation Proton Saga was launched alongside the Proton Persona, Proton Perdana, and Proton Ertiga in what w

While Proton was able to buck the local industry trend with a steady growth in 2020 despite the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the company has also managed to grow its export business by 10.6%. Over the coming weeks, Proton will announce as many as five market introductions, with one marking the export market debut of the Proton X50, and another two signifying the kick-off for local assembly and sales of Proton vehicles in other markets. “While local market leadership is one of our targets, it is eq