"That is how we are challenging premium car makers without becoming one ourselves," is how Volkswagen's product planning boss Dr. Elmar-Marius Licharz describes the VW Arteon. What's the idea behind having a VW taking attention away from Audi is something we won't really know. What's certain is that it's a deliberate, calculated move. A car doesn’t just exist the way it does because some designer or some engineer woke up one morning with an epiphany of what a great car should be, at least not in

I pulled up to a parking spot in the Audi A5 Sportback - the RM 376,900 (OTR without insurance, SST discount applied), full-fat Quattro variant - , parked it there, and headed in to a familiar cafe. While I was sipping my coffee, I laid my eyes on the Audi, as it glistened in the sun. Boy, I thought to myself, this thing is a looker, a car you'd turn back to and have another look after you've parked it. In that hour I left the car there, the A5 Sportback garnered vast amounts of stares, glances,

When we first sampled the 2020 Volkswagen Arteon, we noted that the Arteon could do with more power than 190 PS/320 Nm as its chassis can easily handle it. Well, there is a fully-imported unit with 280 PS/350 Nm and 4Motion all-wheel drive system currently for sale. Listed on the DasWeltAuto website, the Volkswagen Arteon in question is priced at RM 269,888. In comparison, the “standard” locally-assembled Arteon with 190 PS is priced at RM 221,065. It wears the same R-Line outfit with the gloss

Volkswagen Passenger Cars Malaysia (VPCM) is ushering in this Chinese New Year with special savings on selected models. Model Savings up to (RM) Monthly Repayment (RM) Polo 4,000 725 Vento Comfortline 8,000 783 Vento Highline 4,000 894 Golf R-Line 2,000 1,750 Tiguan Highline 2,000 1,675 Beetle Sport 5,000 1,505 Monthly calculation based on 9-year loan tenure with 10% down payment and based on 2.5% interest rate. Subject to terms & conditions while stocks last. For those considering the Tiguan (H

Volkswagen Passenger Cars Malaysia (VPCM) no longer sells any Volkswagen Passat 1.8 TSI. All remaining units have been snapped up and the dealers now only carry the more powerful 2.0 TSI variant. This is most likely due to the fact that Volkswagen Malaysia is gearing up for the introduction of the updated Passat, which made it global debut earlier this year. Yes, we are confident that the new model will be much better than the current model, but expect prices to be a lot higher than the current

A recent typology - the science of classification - carried out by Audi shows that China and South Korea are more receptive to autonomous cars on their roads than any other country in the world. Based on the Human Readiness Index (HRI), China records +5.1 while South Korea records +1.2 reading. Spain and Italy leads the way in the European side with a +0.7 reading while countries like Germany, France, the USA, Japan and British are more reserved against driverless cars. Self-driving cars are con