This is your first look at the 2024 Toyota GR Corolla facelift, which was revealed over the weekend. The face just jumps out at you, doesn't it? As usual, there's good reason for it. Toyota says the larger ducting helps with aerodynamics and cooling, which now includes a smaller, second radiator to better cool the bulging 1.6-litre three-cylinder under the bonnet. This wider bumper also has ducts to direct airflow that help in cooling the front brakes, and the general shape of the bumper itself

MINI Malaysia has launched a new initiative to enhance customer experience by introducing the first cohort of MINI Geniuses. Six MINI Geniuses have been trained and deployed to six different dealerships across Malaysia to offer personalised care and guidance to MINI customers. Benjamin Nagel, Managing Director of BMW Group Malaysia, stated, “Purchasing a new vehicle is a deeply personal experience. With MINI Geniuses, our customers will receive expert guidance and personalized attention, ensurin

Chinese battery electric vehicle (BEV) giant BYD is opening its first Southeast Asian factory in Rayong, Thailand, a $486 million (~RM 2.3 billion) facility, reports Nikkei Asia. To celebrate, BYD is cutting prices on its Atto 3 and Dolphin models, highlighting the intense competition in Thailand's EV market amid economic challenges and a rise in loan rejections is dampening car sales. The discount is across the board, but 2023 model year cars see the biggest price cuts. A 2023 Atto 3 Extended R

One year after signing a deal with Thailand’s Charoen Pokphand Group (CP) - one of the world’s largest food companies – to generate hydrogen from waste collected from the CP Group’s chicken farms, Toyota will now demonstrate its practical approach to carbon neutrality by racing a hydrogen-burning internal combustion engine Toyota GR Corolla. Unlike the fuel-cell electric Toyota Mirai that combines hydrogen with oxygen to generate electricity to power the car’s drive motor, this GR Corolla retain

At the Australian launch of the Toyota GR Corolla, Chief Engineer Naoyuki Sakamoto told GoAuto that GR models like the GR Corolla and GR Yaris, which are currently available with a manual transmission only, could gain an automatic option. “It’s possible. We are testing an automatic transmission in the GR Yaris for the Japanese rally team,” said Sakamoto. “We have joined the rally series with a GR Yaris with automatic transmission, and with each rally if we find some issues, we improve it. Such k

Renault Group CEO Luca de Meo does not see a near future where prices of battery EV (BEVs) models can come down low enough to match combustion engine models. “I do not see this parity getting close,” said de Meo at the opening of the Paris Auto Show earlier this month. De Meo said that 8 years ago, EV analysts were predicting that battery prices will come down within the next 5 years and will soon reach price parity with combustion engine models, but clearly none of that has happened. In fact, p