UMW Toyota Motor closed May 2024 by netting a total sale of 8,422 units, including Lexus models. The figure is 14.7% higher than the previous month’s total of 7,345 units (including 132 units of Lexus). Cumulative sales from January to May 2024 came in at 39,211 units, which is 8.3% higher than last year’s total of 36,972 units, for the same five-month period. The company didn't provide a breakdown of its sales by model, but the Toyota Vios and Hilux are the company's two most important models.

UMW Toyota Motor (UMWT) announced yesterday that it sold 7,345 units of Toyota and Lexus vehicles in April 2024, with Toyota-badged models contributing 7,213 units, while the imported-from-Japan only Lexus contributed 132 units. Year-to-date, the company sold 30,789 units in the first four months. The company didn’t share its sales numbers for March 2024, but figures compiled by RHB Investment Bank put it at 9,688 units. That’s a that month-on-month, UMWT’s sales had dropped by 25 percent, but t

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It takes a fanatical fastidiousness to notice how even the size of a bolt affects performance, but that's what the people of Toyota Gazoo Racing (GR) are accustomed to, resulting in the upgraded Toyota GR Corolla. Two things were changed to the all-wheel drive monster: the bolts on the front and rear suspension members as well as the steering gearbox, and the shape of the front airduct. On the front suspension and steering gearbox, the bolts are now ribbed, while the fasteners at the back got a

Toyota broke Honda's 6-year winning streak as Malaysia's No.1 non-national car brand Hilux a major contributor, also means Toyota's passenger cars sales trails behind Honda 2022 to be the beginning of UMW Toyota Motor's pivot towards hybrids and EVs UMW Toyota Motor ended 2021 with 71,585 Toyota cars sold (excluding Lexus), putting it ahead of Honda Malaysia’s 53,031 cars. It also means that Honda Malaysia’s 6-year run as the No.1 selling non-national car brand in Malaysia has come to an end. Ex

Fun fact: The Toyota Yaris shares the same engine as the Perodua Myvi 1.5L. In fact, both engines are made at the same Daihatsu Perodua Engine Manufacturing plant in Sendayan. Yes, the engines have different engine codes – 2NR-FE for the Toyota Yaris and 2NR-VE for the Perodua Myvi – but they are essentially the same aluminum block engines with slightly different tuning. The one fitted in the Toyota Yaris makes slightly more power, 107 PS and 140 Nm versus 103 PS and 136 Nm for the Myvi. So why