The Bangkok International Motor Show is Thailand’s biggest and most important car sales event. Held between 29-March to 11-April, sales figures at the motor show are often used as an indicator of the pulse of Thai car buyers, thus setting expectations for the rest of the year. A total of 53,438 vehicles were sold (booked) during the two-week long event, according to figures released by the motor show organizer Grand Prix International. As expected, Toyota leads the sales chart, with 8,540 bookin

When it comes to Perodua’s entry-level cars, it’s a given that these little tikes offer great fuel economy and in the case of the all-new 2023 Perodua Axia, that remains pretty much true or is it? The all-new Axia is the most advanced it has ever been for Perodua’s long line of entry-level cars which goes back to the Perodua Kancil with a modern D-CVT automatic offered across the range and the top-of-the-line 1.0 AV available with the Perodua Smart Drive Assist (PSDA) ADAS suite. While the Axia

Now that 2 out of every 5 new cars sold in Malaysia is a Perodua, and the number is set to rise to nearly 1 in every 2 by the end of 2023, Perodua is reaching close to the peak of what more it can do to expand its business locally. Perodua ended 2022 with 282,019 units sold, and is targeting an 11.3 percent increase in sales for 2023, reaching 314,000 units, with a 44.5 percent market share, up 5.4 percent from 2022. To seek new avenues of growth, Perodua will have to go beyond our national bord

The Malaysian government will be ‘looking’ into ways to introduce affordable battery EVs priced below RM 100,000, said Natural Resources, Environment and Climate Change Minister Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad. The Minister said battery EVs currently on sale in Malaysia are priced beyond the reach of most Malaysians. “The majority of EVs on sale today are priced above RM 100,000 but we want to bring such vehicles to the wider market, which is the price range of below RM 100,000. To achieve that, we will loo

Perodua's manufacturing operations resumed 3 days after the flood Many other manufacturers faced parts shortage for more than a month Perodua's January 2022's sales is up 3 percent, despite flood, Proton down 25 percent Late Friday night on 17-December 2021, several parts on the West Coast of Peninsular Malaysia, including Kuala Lumpur and Selangor were inundated by a once-in-a-100-year rainfall. The ensuing flood caused huge losses of property, and 54 deaths. Shah Alam was one of the worst affe

Just moments ago, Geely has launched the new 2021 Geely Binyue facelift in China. Over the past couple of weeks, Geely revealed a number of updates to its three-year-old subcompact crossover. In China, prices of the new Binyue start from CNY 75,800 (~RM 50k) for the base variant, topping out at CNY 119,800 (~RM 78k) for the top-spec variant. As before, six variants are offered in China. Geely has discontinued the 48V mild-hybrid (MHEV) version of the Binyue with this facelift. For those keeping