The Chery Omoda E5 comes with an interesting proposition for would-be owners – a conditional one-to-one battery exchange programme on top of the car's warranty period. This programme entitles owners to swap out their Omoda E5's 61 kWh lithium-ion battery for a new one if the battery's state of health (SoH) dips below 70% during the battery's 8-year, 160,000 km warranty coverage, whichever comes sooner. Should the car be sold during this period, it's also transferable to the new owner. The warran

A new and improved 2024 Hyundai Ioniq 5 has been announced today. Long range variants will now get bigger 84 kWh battery, up from the previous model’s 77.4 kWh (Malaysian market models get a different 72.6 kWh unit). The front and rear bumper have been replaced with a new design, but add 20 mm to the car’s overall length, now at 4,655 mm. Width (1,890 mm) and height (1,605 mm) remain unchanged, as is its 3,000 mm wheelbase. The rear spoiler has been extended further back by 50 mm. This, along wi

The Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team (TGR-WRT) has confirmed that the Toyota GR Yaris Rally2 has officially received homologation from the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) starting 1-January 2024. Toyota Gazoo Racing (TGR) has been an active participant in motorsports with the GR Yaris Rally1 hybrid in the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC), the GR010 hybrid in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC), and the DKR Hilux EVO T1U in the FIA World Rally Raid Championship (W2RC)

The Suzuki Jimny is a fun little off-roader that many aftermarket companies offer conversion body kits to turn the Japanese jeep into other classics. It’s kind of like cosplay but in Jimny form and one of the famous aftermarket companies that offer Jimny bodykits is DAMD. DAMD also offers bodykits for various Mazda, Subaru, Toyota, and Honda models but it’s the retro bodykit for the Suzuki Jimny that they are mostly famous for. Almost since the fourth-gen Jimny was launched in 2018, DAMD has bee

Just a single Ora Good Cat is enough to catch anyone’s attention on the road. So, imagine a convoy of 11 driving from Bangkok to Kuala Lumpur and ending up in Singapore. That’s precisely what the recently concluded Great Wall Motor (GWM) GWM EV Convoy Tour was about, with a 11 units of the Ora Good Cat EV traversing 15 cities in 3 countries over 8 days. Also Read: Review: Ora Good Cat – Affordable Porsche EV look-alike? Here’s what the Thai media says The battery electric vehicles (BEV) convoy w

So, the long-awaited 2020 Mazda 3 Turbo hot-hatch is finally launched in America and is apparently only available in left-hand drive (LHD) for now. Excuse me while I wipe away raging tears from my keyboard. Mazda announced its arrival to American shores with a sleek launch film which features the first-generation Cosmo, 787B Le Mans car, and a Mazda 3 2.5 Turbo with some added aero kits. The Mazda 3 Turbo is powered by a 2.5-litre turbocharged Skyactiv-G that produces up to 253 PS and 434 Nm dep