After ending the first half of 2023 with healthy order banks for both Perodua and Toyota, the UMW Group is upbeat about its associate companies meeting their respective 2023 targets – 314,000 units for Perodua and 93,000 units for Toyota. Toyota ended the first half of 2023 with 48,659 units registered, up 6 percent from the same 6-month period last year. Toyota and Lexus ended the month of June with 8,004 units registered, up 8 percent from May. The Toyota Vios, Corolla Cross, and Hilux are the

Regardless if you’re an enthusiast or the casual everyday driver, everyone appreciates comfort. And for under RM 150k, there’s no other car more comfortable than the Toyota Corolla Altis. You might be asking, what about SUVs? Well, as we’ve explained this in an earlier article - like for like, a sedan is more comfortable than an SUV. It’s simply physics, SUVs have higher centre of gravity, which means the driver as well as the passengers are seated further away from the pivot point of the car. T

With claimed fuel consumption for all these newly-introduced B-segment sedans hovering below the 6-litre/100 km mark (2020 Toyota Vios: 5.8-litre/100 km, 2020 Honda City: 5.4-litre/100 km, 2020 Nissan Almera: 5.4-litre/100 km), which one of these non-national B-segment sedans will offer the best fuel consumption under real-world conditions? Fuel Economy (Claimed, L/100 km) Nissan Almera 5.4 Toyota Vios 5.8 Honda City 5.4 To find out, we pitted all three models through our WapCar instrumented tes

The all-new 2020 Kia K5 has made its debut at the 2020 Beijing Auto Show to wow the crowds of China. For this generation, Kia has dropped the name “Optima” so the D-segment sedan will only be known as the “K5”. Sold by Dongfeng Yueda Kia Motors Co. (DYK), the K5 will be locally-assembled for the Chinese market. The K5 will be aimed at a young, trendsetting audience with its stylish looks and advanced technology like the sedan’s new i-GMP (innovative-Global Modular Platform) and CVVD engine. Debu

The majority of us tend to take car buying decision rationally. We look at price, overall value proposition, after sales service, brand reputation, or even resale value. After all, buying a car is most often the second biggest purchase in life after buying a house. So it is only natural to avoid risks and play it “safe”. But if we decided to take a plunge in buying a car and ignore the naysayers, it opens up to a field of cars that are often overlooked, some of which are actually superb cars. To

The all-new Toyota Corolla Altis 2019 won't be launched until October but that didn't stop UMW Toyota Motor's outlet in Petaling Jaya from putting the car on display. Shown in the range-topping 1.8 G form (Malaysia is not getting the hybrid variant), the all-new Corolla Altis 2019 is powered by a carried over 1.8-litre 2ZR-FE naturally-aspirated four-cylinder petrol engine with Dual VVT-i that outputs 139 PS at 6,400 rpm and 172 Nm at 4,000. The engine is mated to a CVT-type automatic with 7 vir