Fashionable young urban professionals have swarmed the Mercedes-Benz A-Class, and for good reason – it's a quietly brilliant car that serves a tantalising tease of what's there to achieve at the top of the brand's range. Overview: Mercedes-Benz A200 Sedan (V177) Price RM 238,888 Engine 1.3L turbo four-cylinder Transmission 7-speed DCT Power 163 PS @ 5,500 rpm Torque 250 Nm @ 1,620 - 4,000 rpm 0-100 km/h 8.4 seconds (claimed) Origin CKD Pekan, Pahang Jostling for customers hasn't been easy for it

Malaysia holds a special place in the annals of Honda’s hallowed Type R brand’s history. Back in 2007, the young team at Honda Malaysia created history by making Malaysia the first and only country outside of Japan to ever be allowed to sell the FD2 generation Honda Civic Type R, parallel imported reconditioned models aside. It was no small feat because back then, the bosses at Honda’s headquarters in Aoyama, Tokyo were not convinced that exporting the Japan-only Civic Type R for Malaysia was wo

Want to leave internal combustion and emissions behind? Here are the Electric Vehicles available right now. More and more there is a sense that the small rock first thrown by Toyota and Honda is slowly turning into an avalanche that can no longer be stopped. The ongoing pandemic has changed the consciousness of many regarding the environment and their impact on it. What’s more, vehicle sales globally in the past few years have shown that sales of EV continued to go strong, and in 2020 it rose by

The Perodua Axia has the Axia Style, and it’s selling rather well. So it’s only natural to expect Proton to come up with a quasi-SUV, jacked up version of the Proton Iriz. Recall that back in 2014, Proton introduced the Proton Iriz Active Concept. Featuring SUV-style claddings and roof rails, plus a two-tone paint job, the jacked up Iriz rides 30 mm higher. There were reports that Proton will put the Iriz Active into production but things went quiet after that. For obvious reasons – Proton was a

** This article is the personal experience of a 2018 Proton Iriz 1.3 CVT owner and does not necessarily reflect the views of WapCar. Instagram: @andrengphotography It was two years ago when my mom decided to get herself a new car for daily commutes. She was looking for a hatchback and sedans were out of her list. Probably because she thought a sedan was too lengthy for her? In my opinion, a sedan gives you more boot space just in case you had lots of things to carry. She also wanted a new car to

The Proton Saga is the company’s entry-level sedan and competes against the Perodua Bezza in the A-segment sedan market. Let’s take a closer look and see how much are the maintenance and insurance costs of the Proton Saga over a 5-year period. The Proton Saga requires a mandatory oil change at the 1,000 km mark, which costs RM 121.09. It costs RM 632.89 to service the automatic variant of the Saga at the 60,000-km/36-month mark, due to it being a major service, requiring the spark plugs, air fil