The Proton X90 has sailed into Bangladesh, and with it comes a new local partner there for Proton, as well as plans on furthering the automaker's business in the country, reports The Financial Express Bangladesh. Proton Holdings now partners Rancon Cars Limited, which serves as the exclusive distributor and assembler of the marque's models there. Prior to this, it was PHP Automobiles, which also assembled the Proton Saga, X70, and Persona at their Chittagong plant. On this new partnership with R

“Putting your money where your mouth is.” That’s become a pretty big deal for carmakers lately in the form of their warranties as we see an exponential rise in factory warranty periods. After all, consumers are going to be reluctant to hand over their hard-earned money if the people making said cars aren’t going to stand behind it for a reasonable amount of time once it has left the showroom. Chery’s launch yesterday tabled a 10-year or 1,000,000 km engine warranty for the first 3,000 customers

Proton has confirmed that bookings for the 7-seater Proton X90 is now open. Prices have yet to be announced as the model is not expected to launch until the middle of this year. The Proton X90 will only be sold at Proton 3S / 4S outlets. Showroom-only 1S outlets will not carry the model. The company also said that preview sessions have been conducted for selected customers since 8-April. The so-called City Preview sessions have been completed in Selangor, Kl, and Penang, and will move Johor and

At Proton’s opening of their new engine assembly line in Tanjung Malim earlier this week, it’s made clear that only the direct-injected 1.5-litre three-cylinder mill (TGDi) is assembled here, while the multi-point injection (MPI) variant is imported from China. Speaking at the press conference, Muhammad Hasbullah, Deputy Chief Operating Officer of Powertrains, said that while “the plant is designed to produce a few more variants of the [1.5-litre three-cylinder engine], at the moment the focus i

For the majority of car buyers, comfort is a priority. But comfort is difficult to quantify, it is mostly based on subjective feelings, keyword here being mostly. One aspect that can be quantified is noise level. We use a specialized sound level meter to determine the sound pressure level at varying speed intervals – 60 km/h, 90 km/h, and 110 km/h. Two things we’d like to note: The sound level meter only measures one aspect of noise - the sound pressure level, not its frequency. Due to feasibili

Volkswagen Passengers Car Malaysia rolls out the new facelift 2020 Volkswagen Passat, priced at RM 189,012 for the 2.0 TSI Elegance - that's RM 7,400 cheaper than before. The previous model's 1.8 TSI has since been discontinued. As before, it is locally-assembled at Pekan, Pahang. The 2.0 TSI engine is detuned to now produce 190 PS and 320 Nm of torque. That's 30 PS and 30 Nm lower than the pre-facelift’s 220 PS and 350 Nm. If you are wondering why, that’s because the 220 PS tune is no longer av