Toyota is not a frivolous attention seeking company. Everything that the company does needs to be justified by strong business rationales, supported by market demand data. And yet, Toyota hosted the Southeast Asian debut of the fifth generation Toyota Prius in Bangkok earlier in March, despite having no immediate plans to launch the hybrid-exclusive model in this part of the world. Nine months after the Bangkok Motor Show, Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda’s privately owned OCR Rookie Racing team adde

Super long name, but this the closest thing the world has to a Toyota GR Prius. Technicalities be damned, all we know is we want one. In full, it's called the 2023 Toyota Prius 24h Le Mans Centennial GR Edition, a concept built to honour the 100th year of the annual 24-hour endurance race. Also read: Used hybrids are really cheap, so should you buy a used Toyota Prius, Camry Hybrid or Honda Insight? One would think a Prius would be the furthest thing from cars whizzing down the Mulsanne straight

Hybrid cars are not new to Malaysians, seeing that they have been available in Malaysia for roughly 15 years with the introduction of the FD-generation Honda Civic Hybrid. And today, hybrids are even more popular, as manufacturers like Honda, Toyota, and Nissan all offer at least one hybrid model in their line-up here in Malaysia. More recently, Perodua has thrown their hat in the ring with the 2022 Perodua Ativa Hybrid. On one of the presentation slides that Perodua showed, the second national

In the same press preview event that Honda Malaysia treated us to the Honda City Hatchback RS e:HEV (review here), we were also given a chance to sample the Honda City Hatchback 1.5 V, the top non-hybrid variant. The model is yet to be launched, so things like prices and fuel consumption figures will have to wait until the car is launched. How does the NA engine perform? Just like it is on the sedan, the petrol variants of the City Hatchback are powered by a regular naturally-aspirated 1.5-litre

Courtesy of our Thai colleagues over at Autofun, we've learnt that the 2021 Honda City Hatchback will be making its global debut in Thailand on 24-November 2020. What is the Honda City Hatchback? If you've been following our posts (be sure to set our page as 'See First' on Facebook), you'll know that the City Hatchback will take the all-new fourth-generation Honda Jazz's place in the ASEAN region. Honda will focus the Jazz in more developed markets, like Europe and Japan. This is pretty much the

Honda Jazz There has been rumors circling around that our current third-generation Honda Jazz will not be replaced with the recently launched fourth-generation Honda Jazz in Japan. Instead, we will be getting an entirely different car altogether, in the form of Honda City Hatchback. Patent drawings of the City Hatchback posted by canalcarros have been out in the internet for quite some time now, including a screenshot of the name trademark at Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia (MyIPO)