Honda Malaysia is off to a rousing start this year, as the company has recorded sales of 21,500 units in Q1 2024, on track for their total sales goal of 95,000 units for the entirety of this year. This is a whopping 23% increase over Q1 2023, in which the company sold circa 16,500 cars. According to a senior official within the company, Q1 2024's numbers were led by the HR-V, City, and CR-V. To recap, the two SUVs were last year's No.1 in their respective segments' sales figures. Hironobu Yoshim

The Honda HR-V has been a sales success for Honda Malaysia ever since it was first launched back in 2015. After 6 years and with competition in the B-segment SUV heating up, the HR-V is due for a replacement. As a farewell of sorts for the hot-selling SUV, Honda Malaysia is launching a special run-out model simply called the Honda HR-V SE. Limited to only a few units and priced from RM 105,364, this special edition HR-V comes with the following features: Blind-spot monitors (BSM) Lane change ass

Unlike food, us Malaysians aren't spoiled for choice when it comes to buying cars - even more so when you have to buy a 'budget' one. Say for example you want to buy a small SUV priced below RM 75,000. Barring used cars, you can only get the Perodua Ativa. But it's a different story in Indonesia. Also read: Review: 2021 Perodua Ativa AV – The new Malaysian highway king Raize vs competitors - close fight Take the newly-launched Toyota Raize there, itself the donor car for the Ativa. Unlike Malays

The 2021 Perodua D55L is Perodua’s first-ever model to be fitted with a CVT-type automatic. Now, before you throw a tantrum at the mere mention of CVT, the one fitted to the D55L is very different from CVTs of yore. You see, the Perodua D55L's Dual-mode CVT (D-CVT) features a combination of steel chains and gear set, vastly different from regular CVTs that utilizes only belts or chains. Mechanically, the D-CVT is similar but not identical to Toyota's vaunted Direct Shift CVT, despite both units

The oddly named Mazda CX-30 slots between the B-segment CX-3 and the C-segment CX-5. Why is called the CX-30 instead of a more logical CX-4 then? That's because the CX-4 already exists as a totally unrelated China-only model (based on the previous generation CX-5). This 2020 Mazda CX-30 that you see here is Mazda's latest global product. It's a C-segment SUV, similar to the CX-5 but this one sits closer to the smaller Toyota C-HR than the larger CX-5. Just as its little brother the CX-3 is based

We recently came across photos of what appears to be the Daihatsu Thor in Malaysia. The Daihatsu Thor is a Japan-only model, and its presence here in Malaysia has raised an eyebrow or two. Seeing that this particular Daihatsu Thor isn’t covered in any camouflage (the Daihatsu emblem is still exposed), it’s safe to say that it won’t be sold here. Instead it is more likely to be part of an evaluation for a specific part used in the Thor, a part or feature that would eventually come to Malaysia, ei