It seems like an obvious gap will be plugged soon as Toyota Asia Pacific executives confirmed that hybrid variants of their best-selling 'A- and B-segment' vehicles are in development, adding to the company's increasingly-electrified model range. Speaking to WapCar.my at the sidelines of the Idemitsu Super 1500 Endurance race in Thailand, Hao Tien, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Toyota Motor Asia Pacific said, "From the business perspective, we do have plans for hybrid A/B segment. I can't

UMW Toyota Motor is sitting on over 20,000 outstanding orders, according to documents sighted by WapCar.my. Sources familiar with the matter said the company is banking on the resumption of manufacturing activities to catch up on its 62,000 units sales target announced earlier this year. As of June 2021, Toyota had sold 33,705 units (23,232 passenger cars and 10,473 commercial vehicles), achieving 54 percent of its annual target. The problem for Toyota is not that it doesn’t have enough buyers,

Now that the Proton X50 has officially gone on sale, the next highly-anticipated model from our quasi-national car maker is the 2021 Perodua Ativa. With estimated prices topping out at the RM 73,400 mark, the top-spec Perodua Ativa 1.0 AV comfortably undercuts other well-established rivals such as the Proton X50 1.5T Standard and Toyota Vios 1.5 J. Why compare the base spec Toyota Vios and Proton X50 against the top-spec Perodua Ativa you ask? Simple, seeing that all three cars cost below the RM

Yet another strong competitor has jumped into the mix of Thailand’s B-segment sedan market! Toyota Motor Thailand has launched the new 2020 Toyota Yaris Ativ 1.2L facelift. The Toyota Yaris Ativ in Thailand is sold in Malaysia as the Toyota Vios but with a different, larger 1.5-litre engine. Cosmetically, the Yaris Ativ bares the same changes as the 2020 Toyota Vios facelift introduced in the Philippines last month. The Ativ will feature new automatic LED headlamps with follow-me-home system pai

Yesterday, we were greeted with a scoop that the 2020 Nissan Almera in Malaysia will be getting the same 1.0-litre turbocharged 3-cylinder engine as Thailand. Now, before you get all excited with the prospects of cheap road tax and better looks, Edaran Tan Chong Motors (ETCM) still hasn’t announced a launch date for the popular but deeply-flawed sedan’s due replacement. Our Thai friends at Autofun however, has just published a review on the 2020 Almera. The Almera in Thailand is available in 5 t

The Proton Persona is Proton’s B-segment sedan that is based on the Iriz hatchback. The model does have any direct rivals in the B-segment national car market. Here, we will take a closer look and see how much does it cost to maintain and insure the Persona over a 5-year period. Like its Campro-powered siblings, the Proton Persona requires an oil change at the 1,000-km mark, which costs RM 121.09. After the 1,000-km service, the Persona requires a service at every 10,000-km/6-month interval. For