The 2024 Honda City Hatchback facelift is on the brink of its launch here in Malaysia, and bookings are now open ahead of its Q2 2024 launch. Alongside its visual makeover, the facelift brings a slew of key feature enhancements, largely mirroring what the City sedan offers. For clarity, we've utilised images of the Thai-spec car for the new version, which is largely identical to those soon to go on sale in Malaysia. Exterior: New bumpers, black wheels for RS In typical facelift fashion, the City

Malaysia’s current import and excise tax exemption for green vehicles is limited only to battery EV (BEV) models. Despite the tax exemptions, the cheapest BEV in Malaysia is still priced at RM 139,800 – Great Wall Motor’s Ora Good Cat, imported from China. The idea for the tax exemption is to have these imported BEVs kick-starting market demand so job-creating, investment-attracting local assembly projects can follow. There are now three locally assembled (CKD) BEVs, from two manufacturers – the

Perodua targets 11.3 percent increase in sales for year 2023, to 314,000 units TIV to stay above 700,000 units but economic headwinds remain a risk No increase in prices of existing models, as increase in raw materials cost is already absorbed by Perodua After ending 2022 with a record breaking 282,019 cars sold, Perodua is now the fourth largest car brand in the Southeast Asia’s ASEAN trade bloc’s five largest markets of Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, and Vietnam. Starting the new

Ever since Perodua announced that bookings for the new 2022 Perodua Myvi facelift were opened last week, Malaysia’s No. 1 automaker has been busy on its social media. There seems to be a new teaser posted once a day and over the weekend, another short video was uploaded, this time showing off the bumper designs. In the 11-second clip, we get a clearer look at the grille design, the LED headlights, as well as the front and rear bumper designs. A couple of weeks ago, we had published spyshots of t

We’ve seen the recent spyshots of the 2021 Proton Persona facelift as well as the 2021 Proton Iriz facelift. Now though, word on the grapevine is that there’ll be special editions of the duo, rumoured to be named the Proton Persona Black Edition and Iriz R3 Edition. Proton Persona black edition Starting with the Proton Persona “Black Edition”, it is speculated to wear the same design theme as the Proton Saga Anniversary Edition, which was known internally as the “Black Edition” as well. The Prot

Thailand’s Toyota Yaris Cross is yet another jacked up, quasi-SUV hatchback looking to cash in on consumer’s growing interest in taller riding crossovers/SUVs. Despite the name, the Yaris Cross is actually a dress up version of the standard ride height Thailand-market Toyota Yaris, which unlike the Yaris sold here, uses a smaller 1.2-litre engine to take advantage of Thailand’s tax incentives for low CO2 emitting vehicles. (100 g/km). Our Malaysian market Yaris comes with a larger 1.5-litre engi