UMW Toyota Motor (UMWT) ended September 2023 with 9,020 units of Toyota and 208 units of Lexus vehicles sold, totaling 9,228 units. The figure is 10 percent lower than in August. Cumulative sales from January to September 2023, is still 8 percent higher than last year, totaling 76,511 units. Last month, UMWT launched an improved 2023 Toyota Yaris. The improved model, referred to as the Yaris IMP, is the second update for the No.1 selling non-national hatchback, which has sold 60,300 units since

The Suzuki Swift Sport is a pocket rocket and although the manual transmission which isn’t offered in Malaysia is the preferred choice to enjoy the hot hatch’s capabilities, there is a shocking update over in Japan. The latest update for the 6-year-old hot hatch sees the 6-speed manual transmission being dropped from the Swift Sport line-up in Japan. That means the 6-speed automatic transmission is the sole gearbox offered in the Land of the Rising Sun. Not only that but prices for the Swift Spo

UMW Toyota Motor is sitting on over 20,000 outstanding orders, according to documents sighted by WapCar.my. Sources familiar with the matter said the company is banking on the resumption of manufacturing activities to catch up on its 62,000 units sales target announced earlier this year. As of June 2021, Toyota had sold 33,705 units (23,232 passenger cars and 10,473 commercial vehicles), achieving 54 percent of its annual target. The problem for Toyota is not that it doesn’t have enough buyers,

Over the past couple of weeks, the Toyota GR Yaris stole much of the Internet’s limelight and rightfully so. Brilliant car it may be, but with a price tag that hovers around the RM 300k mark, it’s not something for the average car buyer out there. Enter the Japan-only Toyota Yaris Cup Car. Yes, it may lack the GR badging like its 3-door sibling, but there’s still much to love about this up-and-coming race car. For starters, the little Yaris Cup Car is fitted, from the factory, with a bunch of up

It felt like it was yesterday when I was attending the GK5-generation Honda Jazz’s launch and its subsequent media drive, but truth is it has been slightly over six years since the model was introduced in Malaysia. Pretty soon Honda Malaysia will axe the GK5-generation Jazz in favour of the 2021 Honda City Hatchback. Why not the all-new GR-generation Honda Jazz you ask? Simple – the all-new, fourth-generation GR-generation Honda Jazz is seen as too radical for consumers in emerging markets to ac

In 2015, Proton signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and Licence Agreement with Suzuki and DRB-Hicom to form a collaboration. Subsequently, Suzuki ceased its sales and production operation in Malaysia which led to the conversion of Suzuki outlets to Proton. Then came the Proton Ertiga but we digress. Suzuki has been absent in Malaysia for about 4 years now and the last Suzuki Swift Sport officially available in Malaysia was the third-generation model, codenamed ZC32S. It was a combination