Late yesterday night at around 9 pm Japan time, Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda and CEO Koji Sato hastily organized an emergency live press conference. It was revealed that Toyota’s compact car subsidiary Daihatsu, responsible for developing the AC100 generation 2023 Toyota Vios (also known as Yaris Ativ in Thailand) and D74A 2023 Perodua Axia, had submitted side-impact crash safety test results done using a different part from those fitted on production cars delivered to customers. A total of 76,28

After 53 years of being a reliable mode of transport for 77-year old Asada Shogo, this 1969 Toyota Corolla will soon retire to the Toyota City Museum. The one-owner Toyota Corolla was purchased by Shogo-san back in 1969, who spent 2 full years’ salary on the car. The KE10 Corolla was also there with Shogo-san when he started dating, met his future wife Mitsuko, and even ferrying their baby daughter back from the hospital. Also Read: The Toyota Corolla Cross isn’t the only special Corolla, meet i

Rebodied Civic FE begins production in America First Second Integra to be built outside of Japan Overseas sales hinted After a hiatus of 16 years, the Honda Integra is revived in not one but two markets – China and North America. Both Integras are essentially based on the seminal Civic FE but they are also very much different from one another. While the Chinese market Integra is merely a Civic twin built under another joint venture (GAC Honda), the American Integra is badged under Honda’s luxury

The all-new 11th generation 2022 Honda Civic (FE) will be making its global debut in the US on April 28. So far, Honda has only released one front three-quarter view of the production-specs Civic FE. Although it will be debuting later this month, the Civc FE is not expected to go on sale until later this year, as a 2022 model. In a very surprising move, Honda Malaysia has hinted that the all-new Honda Civic could be making its local debut in as early as this year, if all things go according to p

Amidst all the buzz surrounding the upcoming Perodua Ativa, Proton tried to divert the attention on Malaysia’s newest SUV with its launching of a quartet of limited-edition models including the Proton Iriz R3 Edition and the Proton Persona Black Edition. However, one thing missing on these models is the round Proton "Thundercat" logo. Recall that the new logo was launched in 2019 and the first production model to receive this was the locally-assembled (CKD) Proton X70. Eventually, this was also

Slightly over a month ago, we reported that the Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM) will be replacing the ageing Proton Wira and Waja models with the Toyota Corolla Altis and Honda Civic FC. Courtesy of the Honda Civic FC Facebook group, we now know that these police cars will be fitted with Viofo A129 Pro 4K digital video recorders (DVRs), recording both the front and rear of the car. For those in the dark, the Viofo A129 Pro is a dual DVR solution that shoots native 4K videos up front, and 1080p vid