Thailand’s 10-hour Idemitsu Super Endurance Southeast Asia Trophy is our region’s most interesting race you’ve never heard of. Think of it as the Thai version of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, but with familiar B/C segment cars – regular cars that make up our region’s motoring landscape. Once again, Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda participated under his ‘Morizo’ pseudonym. He raced under his self-funded ORC Rookie Racing Team, in the same modified Toyota GR Corolla that burns hydrogen instead of petrol. O

“You can’t have your cake and eat it too” is a common expression that basically means you can’t have it all. In the context of cars, you’d have to make a trade-off between getting a family car and a sports car. Overview: Toyota GR Corolla Price RM 355,000 Segment C-segment Mega Hatch Engine 1.6L turbo 3-cylinder Transmission 6-speed MT Power 300 PS @ 6,500 rpm Torque 370 Nm @ 3,000 - 5,550 rpm Origin CBU, Japan Plenty of cars have attempted to prove it wrong and mostly succeeded. We’re talking a

It’s a not so open secret, but UMW Toyota Motor has just confirmed the company will be launching 3 high performance GR models in 2023. The first on the list is the Toyota GR 86, suggesting that this will be the first of the trio to be launched. The second generation of the Toyota-Subaru now wears the GR badge. Its Subaru twin is currently sold by TC Subaru for RM 249,000 but historically, the Toyota-badged twin will command a higher premium, so expect prices for the new 86, now a 2.4-litre model

The global fanfare surrounding the 2022 Toyota GR Corolla will now seemingly hit fever pitch, with the release of the Japan-market GR Corolla RZ, and the “untamed” track-honed GR Corolla Morizo Edition. The GR Corolla Morizo Edition gets its name from the racing alter-ego of Toyota President, Akio Toyoda, who explicitly deemed he wanted a car that delivered “an untamed energy that captivates customers" and "a driving taste that excites and that powers the urge to keep on driving". However, befor

Imagine a Japanese five-door hatchback with flared wheel arches, makes 300 plus PS and drives all four wheels via a permanent four-wheel drive 6-speed manual transmission. Ten years ago there’s only one model that comes to mind, the Subaru WRX STI hatchback. Well Subaru no longer makes a WRX STI hatchback. Not only that, the company has confirmed that the latest generation 2022 Subaru WRX - now only available as a sedan, with the Impreza name already dropped since 2014 – will not be available in

Fans of the Corolla hoping the world’s most popular car will get the ultimate hot hatch treatment finally have their prayers answered with the 2022 Toyota GR Corolla which made its official world premiere in Long Beach, California. While the world already knew what it looked like and what’s powering it thanks to a leaked staging page, the first-ever GR Corolla marks a landmark moment for Toyota. It is the fourth model to be given the coveted GR badge after the GR Supra, GR Yaris, and the GR 86 a