The Kia Stinger is an underrated sports sedan designed to compete against the established Germans for a fraction of the price. Despite praises from the media, the Kia sports sedan stung in sales and 6 years after it was introduced, the Korean carmaker decided to drop the model. In a bittersweet send-off, Kia decided to offer 1,000 units of the final run of the sports sedan with the Tribute Edition. Out of those 1,000 units planned worldwide, 440 units will be sold in the United States and are of

Its looks might be divisive but there’s no denying its performance and purity on the road. That’s the new BMW M2 and BMW Malaysia today announced its arrival here, coinciding with BMW M GmbH’s 50th anniversary. As their line-up has grown in girth, the M2 now fills the gap of a compact, high-performance coupe, an area that was once the domain of the now-beefier M3/M4. While it does divide opinion on its design, all grovels about its looks will ceases once that nuclear powerplant of an engine fire

Car manufacturers have been downsizing their engines for a while now. BMW started using 2.0-litre turbocharged 4-cylinder engines as opposed to their well-known naturally aspirated (NA) straight-six engines, Volkswagen began using 1.4-litre turbocharged engine to replace their NA 1.6 and 2.0-litre engines, you get the idea. The reasoning behind this is simply to reduce emissions by producing more efficient cars and at the same time, provide the performance of a larger engine. All sounds fine and

It is not every day that you would get a car designer doing a critique of another designer’s work. Most of the time designers would be either working their drawing hand to the bone or staring at mood walls. There aren’t enough hours in the day for them to throw shade at one another. However, having left the car design world and with everyone locked at home, designer Frank Stephenson has started his own YouTube channel. On his channel, Stephenson goes into detail about the inspiration behind some

With the Toyota 86 and Subaru BRZ twins ending production, fans of the two-seater sports cars now have a glimpse at their successor after a prototype was caught testing in the United States recently, as reported by Creative311.com It still retains its familiar two-door shape, but with some updates such as more muscular-looking front and rear fenders. A Japanese source has also quoted that the Toyobaru twins will be based on the Subaru Global Platform (SGP), and the car is rumoured to measure 4,5

As much as enthusiasts such as myself lament the inevitable demise of manual transmissions (MT), there is simply no business case for manufacturers to continue offering a manual option. Instead, dual-clutch transmissions (DCT) or traditional automatic transmissions (AT) are taking over their place. Admittedly, I have defended manual transmissions since the birth of YouTube comment section, not that I participate in them, it's only mental replies. But no longer am I oblivious to the preferences o