Thailand’s best-selling car of 2023 so far, the Isuzu D-Max is looking to receive a facelift in the Kingdom around this month. However, it seems that Thai social media have leaked photos of the updated D-Max before its official unveiling. The photos were uploaded into a private Thai Isuzu D-Max Facebook group while Autolife Thailand reported that the D-Max facelift could be launched on 6 October. Based on the photos, the updated D-Max could sport a redesigned front bumper with the front fog ligh

When Geely purchased a 49.9 percent stake in Proton from DRB-Hicom in 2017, the Chinese carmaker was upbeat about its goal to become the third largest automotive brand in the Southeast Asian ASEAN trade bloc by 2027. 5 years later, we are now at the midpoint of Geely’s 10-year goal for Proton. To the credit of the new team at Proton, the Malayan Tiger marque is now on a much stronger footing than it ever has since 2013. Proton ended 2022 with 141,432 cars delivered, up 23.3 percent from 2021, bu

The Thais don’t use pick-up trucks the way we Malaysians do. Over there, pick-up trucks are put to hard work, pulling all types of farm produce. So when Isuzu introduced the RZ4E-TC 1.9-litre Blue Power engine for its latest generation D-Max, there were doubts if it can deliver the same pulling power as a 2.8-litre Toyota Hilux. There is no replacement for displacement and yes, it is true that the Isuzu D-Max runs out of puff earlier than the Toyota Hilux. The Isuzu has to make do with only 150

We hear the term “lifestyle vehicle” applied rather generously these days to anything with a remote resemblance of off-road capabilities. While we’re still questioning some of the examples referenced, we’re absolutely sure that the all-new Isuzu D-Max falls under its scope and if you’re understandably doubting us, we got a couple of owners to justify the positive impact having a pick-up has had on their… lifestyles. Having long shed their agricultural image, it isn’t too much of a stretch to cal

Ask any random person to name three Japanese companies that best represent the pinnacle of automotive engineering, and you will find that few will mention Isuzu even if you were to expand the list to 5. But Isuzu is the genesis, the starting point of Japan’s automotive industry. With a heritage that dates back to 1916, starting as a joint venture between a ship builder and a heavy engineer company - Tokyo Ishikawajima Shipbuilding and Engineering Co., Ltd. and Tokyo Gas and Electric Industrial C

For anything that is not a Toyota Hilux, making inroads in the pick-up truck segment is an uphill battle. Point at any random truck, and the responses will invariably be, "Oh, look at that Hailak." But, if any pick-up can change that this perception, it's the 2021 Isuzu D-Max 3.0 X-Terrain, the flagship of the range. So, is the all-new D-Max good enough to have people ditching the Hailak moniker and turn the segment on its head? Can it really out-truck the usual suspects like the Toyota Hilux Ro