The 2024 Toyota Hilux facelift will move into Australian showrooms in March 2024, with the market being the first in the world to sell the pick-up truck with its new hybrid powertrain. With its revamped aesthetic – first seen in Indonesia – that highlights a tougher front end, the main draw of the refreshed Hilux for Australia is its new 48-volt, mild-hybrid (MHEV) technology. It will be standard fitment to the higher-end variants for the market, namely the 4x4 Rogue and automatic SR5 double-cab

Proton Commerce, a joint venture between Proton’s sales arm Proton Edar, and CIMB Bank announced today that it disbursed a total of 27,288 loans to Proton car buyers in Malaysia in 2023. The figure is a new high for Proton Commerce, rising in tandem with Proton’s recent record of 154,611 units sold – its highest since 2012. This also means that 18 percent of Proton cars sold last year were financed by Proton Commerce. The Proton Saga is the financing arm’s most important model, contributing 61 p

Four companies in the Commercial Japan Partnership Technologies Corporation (CJPT), Isuzu Motors Limited, Toyota Motor Corporation, Suzuki Motor Corporation, and Daihatsu Motor Co., Ltd., along with Hino Motors, Ltd., are holding a test drive event with the cooperation of Toyota Motor Thailand Co., Ltd, to introduce commercial vehicles for various purposes to government officials, media, fleet companies, and partner corporations. CJPT was established in April 2021 to accelerate the implementatio

Mitsubishi Motors Malaysia (MMM) recently took the initiative to give back to the community and part of that effort comprised donating high-power solar systems to enable access to solar energy in the Orang Asli’s shared community space; more commonly known as the rumah adat. This donation to the Orang Asli community in Rompin, Pahang, was done through Global Peace Foundation, a non-profit organisation (NGO) with a mission to build resilient and cohesive Orang Asli communities. Lack of access to

The 2021 Isuzu D-Max has flipped the script on the lifestyle pick-up truck market since its launch in April 2021. Once considered the outsider of the upper rung of pick-ups (perhaps due to the demure styling of its predecessor), the RG01 Isuzu D-Max, especially in 3.0L X-Terrain guise is now a raucous beast of a machine capable of cruising any high street (or dirt road). Of course, that just covers how it looks – we have yet to get to the bit about the D-Max’s rock-solid reliability, best-in-cla

(2020 Honda Accord Spec and Prices | Gallery) Honda Malaysia just took the covers off the all-new tenth-generation Accord, a couple of weeks after bookings were opened. Powertrain - Good bye NA, hello turbo For the first time ever, the Honda Accord gets a turbocharged engine in the form of a 1.5-litre VTEC Turbo 4-cylinder engine, churning out 201 PS and 260 Nm. The new turbocharged mill replaces the outgoing Accord’s 2.0- and 2.4-litre naturally-aspirated engines. Unlike the older model’s 5-spe