Three years on since the model first made its debut, Kia has teased the imminent arrival of the 2024 Kia EV6 facelift. Kia's unveiling of the updated battery electric vehicle (BEV) shows off a sharp new face that's very similar to the look on the marque's newest models – especially the Kia EV5. Round the rear things look familiar with its overarching lightbar, though further changes aren't quite visible. Expect the changes to also extend to redesigned bumpers and new wheels too; par for the cour

Honda has resurrected the Prelude name, unveiling the concept at the 2023 Japan Mobility Show. The Prelude, a nomenclature last seen in the late '90s, has historically represented front-wheel drive, 2-door coupes. By the 2000s, this mantle transitioned to the Civic Coupe, epitomized by the EP3 Civic Type R. However, the subsequent Civic Coupe iterations catered mostly to the left-hand drive North and Latin American markets. The landscape changed with the current FE generation Civic, which phased

Tesla is gearing up for its official introduction in Malaysia on 20-July 2023, as announced by a teaser on social media. This positions Malaysia as the third market in Southeast Asia, following Singapore and Thailand, to offer the poster child of EVs. No details on the upcoming models were shared but we can rule out the Model S and Model X as both were discontinued for right-hand drive markets. For reference, Thailand sells the Model 3 and Model Y, with prices for the Model 3 starting from: THB

In early 2020, before Covid-19 hit and Russia hadn’t attacked Ukraine, makers of electric vehicles (EVs) were optimistic that prices of batteries will come down and reach cost parity of with combustion engine cars by 2025. Today, no one believes in that message anymore. In the near-term, prices of EVs will go up, not down. Consulting firm AlixPartners say that between 2020 to 2022, the cost of raw materials to build an EV has gone up by 144 percent. Yes, inflationary pressure, higher energy cost

Nearly 3 months after making its world debut, the 2022 Honda Civic (FE4) e:HEV hybrid sedan is launched in Thailand with two variants that now occupy the highest trim of the Civic range in the Kingdom. The two variants are the EL+ which starts from THB 1,129,000 (~RM 142k) and the RS which starts from THB 1,259,000 (~RM 158k). Note that the e:HEV RS essentially replaces the VTEC Turbo RS variant in Thailand. Still, the Toyota Corolla Altis Hybrid undercuts the price of the Civic e:HEV with price

Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) is now a rather common feature. What used to be exclusive only to luxury cars, is now available even on regular, common man’s cars like the Perodua Ativa, Proton X50, and Honda City. To recap, ACC is simply a more advanced version of a regular cruise control feature. While the latter is only capable of controlling the accelerator to maintain a preset speed on the highway, ACC also controls the brake. In some examples like the ones used by the Proton X50, Toyota Coro