As one of the fastest-growing emerging markets in Southeast Asia, the monthly ranking of the best-selling cars in Vietnam is one of the most diverse in the region. Though motorcycles still dominate the roads, cars are starting to become more accessible to the country’s growing middle class. VAMA, Vietnam’s equivalent of the Malaysian Automotive Association (MAA) has released sales figures for the first half of 2023 (H1 2023) and standing at the top spot is the Mitsubishi Xpander which saw 7,982

Sime Darby Auto ConneXion (SDAC), the sole distributor of Ford in Malaysia, recently clinched the highly-coveted Henry Ford Excellence Award for ensuring the highest level of overall customer satisfaction, exceptional business performance and the most outstanding customer initiative in 2022. Additionally, for the fourth consecutive year, the company has also earned the President’s Award for Sales and President’s Award for Service for both the highest level of sales customer satisfaction and the

Marketers love to promote pick-up trucks as a versatile, go-anywhere, carry-anything vehicle. While that’s true if you want to carry something like a bicycle or furniture, pick-up trucks are quite terrible at carrying smaller items like a tool box. The next time you come across a pick-up truck, imagine reaching into back of the rear deck to reach a locking box or grabbing a bag behind, and you will understand why the Thais love low-rider 4x2 pick-up trucks. Unless you have hands as long as Yao M

Perhaps inspired to take on the hydrogen initiative proposed by the Ministry of Environment and Water last week, someone in Malaysia placed an order or more on a hydrogen-powered Ford Ranger. Called the H2X Warrego, the Ranger FCEVs (fuel-cell electric vehicles) will be built by Australian hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle start-up, H2X Global. The pick-up truck is merely an FCEV conversion built by H2X Global, not Ford. The company was launched in 2020 as H2X Australia with a very ambitious plan inclu

Sime Darby Auto ConneXion (SDAC), the sole distributor for Ford in Malaysia, continues to enhance its customer enhance services in providing an additional test drive option through its Home or Office Delivery Test Drive for its vehicles. With this added option, customers considering a Ford can now have the test drive vehicle delivered to their home instead of having to visit a physical dealership if they wish to. This service is available within a 10km radius of the customers chosen dealership.

Last week, we reported that Ford is working together with Volkswagen to develop the next-generation Ranger and Amarok, which are set to debut in late-2022. Apart from the technical bits, renders of the new 2022 Ford Ranger have surfaced. These renders, according to the source, are based on Ford’s final clay model of both the Ranger and Everest, which could be indicative of how the duo could look like. In fact, a leaked photo from another publication gives us a glimpse at the new model. Right off