Calling all Nismo fans and lovers of Nissans, this one is definitely one shouldn’t miss out on! Nissan is holding a booth over at the ongoing Tokyo Auto Salon Kuala Lumpur (TAS-KL) 2023 at the Malaysia International Trade & Exhibition Centre (MITEC) this weekend (9-11 June 2023). If you want to get official Nismo merchandise, this is the place to be as the Nissan booth is offering merchandise from Nissan’s legendary motorsports division. These include T-shirts and jackets which start from as low

So, another year older, another year marked with interesting (or forgettable) cars, and we'll be doing it all over again next year. SUVs will undoubtedly continue to play a greater focus here, so in this article – part one of three – we'll look at the possible non-luxury, non-EV SUVs that are very likely to launch in Malaysia in 2023. Hang on to your downpayments, we're going straight in... 2023 Chery Omoda 5 We'll start off with a bang, perhaps the most awaited-for model in this list. It's alre

Proton announced yesterday morning that it will be setting up a new subsidiary called Proton New Energy Technology Sdn. Bhd. to sell a new range of electric Smart models. The Smart brand is now part of a joint venture between Geely and Mercedes-Benz, operating under Smart Co. Ltd, based in Ningbo, near Geely’s headquarters in Zhejiang, China. Although Proton has yet to confirm Smart’s model line-up for Malaysia, the company says it aims to sell 800 to 1,000 Smart-branded electric vehicles per ye

This morning, our review of the Thailand-market 2022 Honda HR-V went live (it’s here, if you haven’t seen it). Shortly after that we nipped down to Maxcom Motor in Bangsar to check out what we’ll actually be getting – the Malaysian-spec Honda HR-V in 1.5 V form. Photos are still a no-no, so we'll use photos of the cars available in Thailand and Indonesia to illustrate. Four variants, three engines Buyers will be able to choose between four variants in Malaysia: the S, E, V, and RS. All four have

By now you would’ve seen the all-new Honda Jazz, which made its world premiere yesterday at the opening of the 2019 Tokyo Motor Show in Japan, where the Jazz is sold as the Fit. The fourth generation Honda Jazz will only go on sale in Japan in February 2020 so details like body dimensions and engine specifications are still unclear, but we do know that in Japan (and Europe), the all-new Honda Jazz will be sold exclusively as a hybrid. It will most likely be a 1.5-litre full hybrid but unlike the

BMW M has introduced the third generation all-new 2019 BMW X5 M. Also introduced alongside the X5 M is the even more powerful BMW X5 M Competition variant. The 2019 BMW X5 M’s new engine gives the car a push of 750 Nm and a power output of 607 PS. That is a 25 PS power hike compared to the outgoing X5 M. Meanwhile the all new 2019 BMW X5 M Competition has been tuned to the music of 625 PS while the maximum torque of the X5 M Competition is maintained at 750 Nm, similar to its less powerful sibli