This 2023 Hyundai Creta has been spotted in Malaysia. Perhaps it's the spiest of all spy-shots, considering there's not a single thread of camouflage on it (no trade plates too) yet it was caught on camera by a eagle-eyed Funtasticko reader. Seeing it here is no surprise as Hyundai Sime Darby Malaysia (HSDM) is earmaked to introduce the B-segment SUV here, set to rival the Proton X50 and its ilk. This will be one of two models – the other being the Hyundai Staria 10-seater – that HSDM will be in

Mitsubishi Motors is no longer in the World Rally Championship but with improved finances, the company is now making some crucial first steps towards an eventual return in world rallying. Under the mentorship of two-time overall Dakar Rally champion Hiroshi Masuoka, the red tri-diamond badge’s hallowed RalliArt will soon return to the rally stage as a semi-factory-backed team, with the Mitsubishi Triton. Come November 2022, Team Mitsubishi RalliArt - owned by Thai outfit Tant Sports, but with ba

Squint once and you might mistake it for a Audi, but what you’re really looking at is the patent drawings of the next-generation 2024 Honda Accord. Making this the 11th-generation Accord, the images here were leaked from a patent image submission to the Brazilian National Institute of Industrial Property. Also read: 2022 Honda prices post-SST: City up by RM 4.4k, Accord up by RM 10k Though colourless, the images give us a clear look at the overall proportions of the upcoming car including its sw

Homologation is a word that motorsports fans commonly hear but actually the word simply means conformity to regulations. In the case of WRC cars, it’s FIA regulations. In the case of road cars, it’s the local country’s road transport regulations. Before the first unit of a new model can be registered in Malaysia, it has to undergo what’s referred as vehicle type approval (VTA), the industry’s term for homologation of road-going cars. You can loosely describe VTA as a ‘birth certificate’ of a car

Earlier this year, UMW Toyota Motor launched the new 2020 Toyota Hilux, which now comes with a more powerful 204 PS/500 Nm 2.8-litre common rail turbodiesel engine, plus an expanded set of safety features which now include Toyota Safety Sense, packing autonomous emergency braking (AEB), lane departure alert, blind spot monitor, rear cross-traffic alert (RCTA) as well as adaptive cruise control. There’s also a 150 PS/400 Nm 2.4-litre engine for the lower variants – same power output as before but

The Toyota Hilux is perhaps the de-facto pick-up truck in Malaysia. The default option for both lifestyle buyers and construction workers is the Toyota Hilux, as its reputation was built over the years it was sold locally and globally. Quick summary comparing the Toyota Hilux against some of its main rivals The Toyota Hilux, for all intends and purposes, does its job as a workhorse really well. In the event that it needs any form of repairs or servicing, Toyota’s wide network of service centres