Every year, MINIacs (that’s what MINI enthusiasts are called) would gather around to spread the love of the adorable German-British hatchback and this year’s MINIfest is no exception. Over 2,300 MINIacs flocked to Sentul Depot on Saturday, 22 July as the historic former train depot played host to MINIfest 2023. This year’s theme was called Big Love, Big Fun and it properly represented the vibrant community of passionate MINI owners. Malaysia is also MINI’s fastest-growing market globally in 2022

The Chery Tiggo 7 Pro and Tiggo 8 Pro are to launch in Indonesia in a couple of days (23-Nov 2022), locally-assembled (CKD). It's worth keeping an eye out for this event, as their specs there can shed some light of what to expect when the cars come to Malaysia. Chiefly because Chery's planning an R&D centre there to further study the needs of their Indonesian and Southeast Asian customers. With the Bekasi, West Java plant, Chery now has seven plants worldwide, and Indonesia serves as the company

A spokesman told Automotive News Europe that BMW will be producing electric hatchbacks and a small SUV in China through its partnership with Great Wall Motor. As such, the company will cease production of electric versions of MINI hatchbacks in the UK. In 2019, Great Wall Motor and the BMW Group announced the launch of their joint venture, Spotlight Automotive Limited to build a plant in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu province. BMW said that it would start making electric MINIs at the new plant starting

This is the 2020 Farizon FX and it’s the answer to the thousand ringgit question, “What if the Proton X70 gets a pick-up bed at the back?” After some spy photos were leaked out a few months ago, it seems Geely’s newest Boyue Pro-based pick-up truck is set for an official launch later this year. If you’re thinking “What’s Farizon?”. Well, it’s Geely’s commercial vehicle subsidiary. You may have heard of it as Yuancheng in Chinese. Farizon’s line-up consists of alternative-fuel and electric-powere

Unveiled alongside the most environmentally friendly MINI ever, is the MINI John Cooper Works GP, a track-focused hot hatch. Only 10 units of the Oxford-assembled model, out of the 3,000 units worldwide, will be made available to the Malaysian market, priced at RM 377,470 (OTR without insurance and 50% SST) each – that's RM 75,000 more than a standard JCW 3 door hatch. Headline figures for the JCW GP is a reworked B48 2.0-litre 4-cylinder turbo petrol engine now pushing 306 PS and 450 Nm of torq

The locally-assembled (CKD) Proton X70 is no stranger to Malaysians – we have driven it and discussed about the new dual-clutch automatic, in addition to covering numerous aspects of the new SUV. Another aspect of the new X70 CKD that was a topic of debate is its maintenance cost – earlier, we reported that it costs nearly RM 5,000 to maintain the X70 over a period of 5 years, which is almost RM 1,000 more than a Honda CR-V. However, with the new 7-speed dual-clutch automatic in place, is it any