BMW's strategic pivot towards BEVs in the coming years may spell the end for the conventional ICE-powered BMW 4 Series due to model consolidation in preparation for the much-anticipated Neue Klasse BEV lineup. Sighting internal sources, BMW Blog reports that "there are currently no plans to develop a CLAR-based BMW 4 Series” when the 2-door Coupe/Cabriolet and 4-door Gran Coupe models come up for replacement; a decision that “dates back to when the (battery) EV market appeared highly promising,

JD Power recently released its 2023 U.S. Vehicle Dependability Study (VDS), which showed that vehicle reliability has increased with an industry average of 186 problems per 100 (PP100) vehicles, an improvement of 6 PP100 from 2022. For context, a lower PP100 score is better. Even premium marques scored an improvement, lowering their score by 23 PP100. Vehicles from the 2020 model year were the focus of this study. Unsurprisingly, Lexus took the top spot of dependability in the premium brands seg

BMW Group Malaysia ended 2022 with 14,466 vehicles delivered, including 1,233 MINI cars and 1,378 BMW Motorrad bikes. Managing Director Hans de Visser said the figures has kept BMW Group Malaysia ahead as Malaysia’s No.1 premium automotive company, for the third time in a row, now with a market share of over 50 percent. For its namesake BMW brand vehicles alone, the company has delivered 11,855 vehicles, up 37.8 percent from the year before, giving it a 45 percent market share. “Of course the re

Toyota GR86 debuts in the UK, priced from RM 166k Production for UK limited to just 2 years Automatic variant adds TSS Following the launch of the Toyota GR Supra and Toyota GR Yaris, Toyota UK will be launching the 2022 Toyota GR86 as the third full-on GR model there. It will launch in the UK on 20-April. For the UK market, the 2022 Toyota GR86 is priced from GBP 29,995 (~RM 166k) for the manual variant, and GBP 32,085 (~RM 177k) for the automatic variant. The model is imported (CBU) from Japan

For more than a quarter of a century, Mercedes-AMG has been supplying some of their fastest cars as the official safety car and medical car of Formula One. With the 2022 season set to take off on 18-20-March in Bahrain, the Affalterbach tuning company unveiled its latest pair of unsung safety heroes for motorsports’ most premier race series. Taking the role of 2022’s F1 safety car is the Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series which is the highest variant and possibly its swansong. Powered by a 4.0-litre b

The BMW i4 has been confirmed a while ago and recently, Autocar reported that the BMW M4 Gran Coupe is in the works as well. But funnily, since they both share the same 4 Series Gran Coupe body, the M4 won’t be the most powerful in the 4 Series lineup, the i4 will be. Yes, the BMW i4 will be the most powerful 4 series yet, with 530 PS and over 800 Nm from the electric motors. 0-100 km/h takes around 4.0 seconds and it will accelerate to over 200 km/h. The upcoming BMW M4 on the other hand, is ex