Just yesterday a leaked brochure of the 2023 Mazda 2 surfaced. Today, the Hiroshima-based company has opened bookings for the updated B-segment hatchback in Japan. Mazda plans to launch the updated 2023 Mazda 2 in March for its home market. For the Japanese market, Mazda will be offering no less than 12 variants of the new Mazda 2, spread across 7 petrol variants and 5 diesel variants. Typical of most cars sold in Japan, the Mazda 2 can be had in a front-wheel drive or all-wheel configuration. A

Alongside the facelifted Cooper S range, MINI Malaysia has launched the facelifted 2021 MINI Electric, also known as the MINI Cooper SE. It comes fully imported (CBU) from UK, priced at RM 217,470 (OTR without insurance, with SST discount and extended warranty/service package). The pre-facelift model was sold at RM 218,380, hence a price drop of just under RM 1k. Unlike the petrol-powered MINIs, the front grille does not extend to bottom edge of the new front bumper. But the fog lights are repla

Let’s get the important figures out of the way first – the Honda City costs RM 3,669 to maintain over a 5-year/100,00-km period, while the Nissan Almera costs RM 1,766 to maintain over a 5-year/70,000-km period. Yes, 70,000 km over a 5-year period, but we'll get into that below. Wait, why is the Almera so much cheaper to maintain? Simple – Nissan is currently offering free alternate servicing for the Almera, meaning that you'll only need to pay for servicing once every year. The free servicing i

The Hyundai Elantra is a pretty left-field choice if you’re looking for a C-segment sedan. However, if you’re interested to get one brand-new, tough luck as it appears the model has been dropped from the Malaysian market. A quick check on the Hyundai website confirms this notion. An unnamed source further confirmed our suspicion. Could this mean that the all-new seventh-generation Elantra is coming into Malaysia very soon? The outgoing sixth-generation Elantra was launched in Korea in 2015 befor

Volkswagen Passenger Cars Malaysia (VPCM) today launched the limited edition UNITED range, consisting of the Passat and Tiguan models. The range celebrates the strength of unity, a trait deeply embedded in the Volkswagen brand. Two new unique Volkswagen Original Accessories are introduced in the UNITED models; dynamic wheel hub caps with a self-levelling logo that stays upright while the car is in motion for the Tiguan and Passat; and LED door lights that projects the Volkswagen logo when the fr

A recent typology - the science of classification - carried out by Audi shows that China and South Korea are more receptive to autonomous cars on their roads than any other country in the world. Based on the Human Readiness Index (HRI), China records +5.1 while South Korea records +1.2 reading. Spain and Italy leads the way in the European side with a +0.7 reading while countries like Germany, France, the USA, Japan and British are more reserved against driverless cars. Self-driving cars are con