After 12 years of absence, the Mitsubishi Triton has been re-launched in Japan with overwhelming success. Upon its launch on 15-February, the Thailand-made Mitsubishi Triton has netted over 1,300 bookings, overshooting its monthly sales target of 200 units per month by more than six times. Bookings in Japan opened on 21-December last year. Nearly 90 percent of all bookings received were for the highest GSR grade, which is equivalent to the Athlete variant sold in our part of the world. The remai

Next year, selected markets in Southeast Asia will launch a new hybrid variant of the 2024 Toyota Hilux. Unlike the electrified Hilux that was announced for Europe earlier this month, our region’s Hilux hybrid will have two more forward ratios, courtesy of a new 8-speed automatic transmission. We had the opportunity (albeit a very brief one) to drive the new 2024 Toyota Hilux hybrid in Thailand recently. The car is still a prototype and the final specifications have yet to be revealed. Despite t

Although the new generation 2024 Mitsubishi Triton made its global debut in Thailand earlier this year, Mitsubishi Motors has yet to put its highest specification Triton Athlete variant on sale. This is also why Mitsubishi Motors Malaysia has yet to launch the 2024 Mitsubishi Triton here. Launching the company’s most important model without its most important, image-building Athlete variant would have been silly. At the going Thailand International Motor Expo, Thai dealers have indicated that th

This week is a busy one for Toyota Gazoo Racing as tomorrow, they'll be taking the covers off five GR-badged models at one go. Then on the weekend, you can ogle at two of the new models in the flesh – the Toyota Hilux GR Sport, and the Toyota Corolla Cross GR Sport. Both these models will be available for viewing this weekend (18- to 19-February 2023), exclusively at GR Garages and GR-S showrooms nationwide. Note the distinction, as not all Toyota showrooms sell GR and GR Sport models. If gifts

Familiar name, yet not entirely the same recipe: the third permutation of the 2023 Toyota Hilux GR Sport is by far, the baddest one yet, diverging from the models trading under the same name in Thailand and Japan. Australia's one is a proper GR, equipped with more power, wider tracks, tuned suspension, and bigger brakes. The ones for the Asian market are just visually done-up, and possess no performance updates beyond retuned suspension. Also read: Thais' 2021 Toyota Hilux GR Sport rocks Land Cr

Back in early-2020, we reported that the all-new RG-generation Isuzu D-Max won’t be arriving in Malaysia until 2022, but that could soon change. Also Read: All-new third generation Isuzu D-Max won’t be in Malaysia until 2022 Recent checks with various Isuzu dealers have indicated that stock is depleting quick, hinting that the next-gen model could arrive sooner than expected. As such, it is very likely for Isuzu Malaysia to introduce the all-new Isuzu D-Max in Malaysian as soon as the first half