Proton Commerce, a joint venture between Proton’s sales arm Proton Edar, and CIMB Bank announced today that it disbursed a total of 27,288 loans to Proton car buyers in Malaysia in 2023. The figure is a new high for Proton Commerce, rising in tandem with Proton’s recent record of 154,611 units sold – its highest since 2012. This also means that 18 percent of Proton cars sold last year were financed by Proton Commerce. The Proton Saga is the financing arm’s most important model, contributing 61 p

The world is one step closer to getting an automatic Toyota GR Yaris, as one prototype fielded by Rookie Racing clinched second place in a Super Taikyu race that took place last weekend. The endurance race – 5 hours around Motegi circuit, Japan – saw the GR Yaris that's trialling a new automatic gearbox (dubbed the Direct Automatic Transmission) come home ahead of the carbon-neutral fuelled Toyota GR86, but finishing behind the Nissan Z Concept in the ST-Q (experimental) class. 5時間のレースもなんと、 残すとこ

Talk about a story for the ages – Rookie Racing's Toyota GR Corolla has made history as the world's first liquid hydrogen-fuelled car to complete a race by successfully crossing the finish line at Round 2 of the Super Taikyu's 24 hours of Fuji this past weekend. Hydrogen (H2) as fuel is not new per se, as Toyota has fielded H2-combusting Corolla race cars since 2021. The main difference between now and then is the trialling of liquid hydrogen, a tech that promises higher energy density, longer d

Good news Apple users, as Apple CarPlay is in the works for the all-new 2022 Perodua Alza, as confirmed by Perodua president and CEO Dato’ Sri Zainal Abidin Ahmad during a press conference at the Alza’s media drive. According to Dato’ Sri Zainal, Apple CarPlay is set to be rolled out on the top-spec Alza 1.5 AV by year’s end. As for customers who already received their cars, Perodua’s boss mentioned that the update will also be available to them. Seeing that the D27A Perodua Alza does not have a

The Toyota Innova has its roots traced back to the original Toyota Kijang, a model that put Indonesia on wheels. The Innova shares the same IMV platform as the mighty Hailak Hilux and Fortuner albeit with only a rear-wheel-drive (RWD) set-up but that soon may change. According to a scoop obtained by OtoDriver, the next-generation Innova could see the venerable Alphard for the masses switch to a conventional front-wheel-drive (FWD) layout. This could see the Innova following the footsteps of its

Honda has produced many legendary cars in the past few decades, especially its Type R models. However, imagine if you get to see all of them in one place, in stock form no less. Well, one Honda dealer in Seremban decided to set up a Type R museum of sorts. The dealer is Ban Lee Heng Motor and currently, they’re displaying some truly showroom-fresh Honda classics including the DC5 Integra Type R, AP1 S2000, and three generations of the Civic Type R including the one that started it all, the EK9.