At yesterday's (Sunday, 21-April 2024) KL Car Free Morning, Smart Malaysia held the first public preview of the upcoming Smart #3 battery electric vehicle (BEV) in the country. The larger sibling to the #1, the #3 is the second model to emerge from the Smart Automobile tie-up between Geely and Mercedes-Benz. Previous reports point that the model is to launch here after China and Europe; development work should be well underway considering the example pictured is right hand drive (RHD). Launch ti

If the Honda City is the first thing that comes to mind when non-national B-segment sedans are mentioned, then its SUV sibling, the RU5 Honda HR-V is the de-facto non-national B-segment SUV. Numerous B-segment SUVs were introduced prior to the Honda HR-V (Ford EcoSport, Suzuki SX4, Suzuki S-Cross, Peugeot 2008), but none would come close to the success of the HR-V. Honda Malaysia collected over 7,000 bookings for the HR-V within a month of its launch, cementing its position as the best-selling B

People say there’s no need to ‘reinvent the wheel’ but it seems Volkswagen might have done so. In the Volkswagen ID.4 EV - which will be launched in Malaysia - there are only two switches on the driver side to operate the four power windows. How does the driver use all four windows then? To that, Volkswagen has released a video tutorial on how to use the window opener in the ID.4. The video explained that the “rear” button above the switches needs to be ‘touched’ in order to operate the rear win

Volvo has unveiled its flagship SUV, Volvo EX90. It’s a fully-electric (EV) 7-seater SUV and the company’s first purpose-built EV from the ground up. Popular opinion is that it will succeed the Volvo XC90 but since it uses a new EX naming convention, we think otherwise. Anyway, from how Volvo describes the EX90, it’s practically a computer on wheels. There are sensors like cameras, radars and lidar are connected to the car’s high-performance core computers, where the NVIDIA Drive runs Volvo Cars

** This article is the personal experience of a 2012 Honda Jazz Hybrid owner and does not necessarily reflect the views of WapCar Twitter: Suthesh Kumar Balbir Singh How it started One got to admit that the Honda Jazz is one interesting little hatchback. It looks small on the outside, quite nimble to drive and spacious in the inside. When it was first launched in 2001, the design of the car technically impacted on the outlook of most B-segment hatchbacks that came after it: while it is not somet

Mercedes-Benz has confirmed that the production version of the 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show’s EQA concept car will be launched by the end of this year. Rather than being an electric version of the A-Class hatchback as previously thought, the production 2021 Mercedes-Benz EQA will be an electric version of the Mercedes-Benz GLA-Class. This makes sense as the GLA’s taller body makes it easier to package the floor-mounted hybrid battery. Remember that the EQC is based on GLC-Class rather than the C-Cl