In 2023, Toyota achieved a record-breaking sales year in Europe, delivering a total of 1,173,419 vehicles, including those carrying the Lexus badge. The Yaris Cross emerged as the top-selling product, with 195,569 units, followed by the Corolla family with 166,925 cars, and the C-HR with 117,552 vehicles shipped to customers. Never mind that, the real mindwarp is how the GR86 outsold the Prius by nearly double in the region last year; 4,041 units against 2,755 cars respectively! Just slightly be

The Toyota Prius is not a car that you would associate with motorsports. When it was introduced in 1997, car enthusiasts made fun of the slow hybrid. Who would’ve expected that 26 years later, I am at Southeast Asia’s most popular racetrack, the Chang International Circuit in Buriram, Thailand, being heckled and mobbed by fans clamouring to take a photo with the 67-year old chairman of Toyota posing next to a Prius. Jeremy Clarkson would’ve called this “Bollocks.” He is not Chairman Akio Toyoda.

Volkswagen Passenger Cars Malaysia (VPCM) has introduced the refreshed Golf GTI Mk8 here with the headlining act being that it’s finally blessed with Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), making the locally-assembled hatch the first VPCM model with ADAS in Malaysia. Volkswagen labels its ADAS as IQ.Drive and apart from that, the other updates comprise wireless charging and embroidered GTI logos on the front seats. All that though brings the price to RM 244,990, a premium of about RM 19k. Th

As of today, all Nissan showrooms and service centres are now open with revised operating hours. Other than that, Nissan and all its authorised dealers announced that they have put stringent safety measures into place to help prevent the spread of the Covid-19. Stringent hygiene practices of the following will be taken place: Temperature check for all before entry. Hand sanitizers will be offered at the entrance of the showroom. All staff and customers are strongly recommended to wear a face mas

Sometimes it really feels like the more we learn, the less we know. In this case, it’s about the types of suspensions used in a car. At first, we learnt that torsion beam sits at the bottom of the suspension hierarchy. A means to save cost as well as maximizing interior space. In torsion beam setups, both sides of the axle are linked together and when one wheel goes through a bump for example, the other is affected, which disrupts the ride. Although there’s a certain degree of flexibility in the

The all-new 2020 Volkswagen Golf Mk8 was unveiled back in October, and sales in Germany has only begun yesterday. With the exception of the United Kingdom, sales in other right-hand drive markets, including Singapore and Australia, are not expected to begin until late-2020. At launch, the all-new Golf is available across several variants, including Style, R-Line, and GTE. The hotter GTI and R variants are expected to debut at a later date. For the German market, Volkswagen is offering a range of