The 2024 Isuzu D-Max facelift has been launched. This timely update, approximately three years after its debut in 2021, includes visual and technical enhancements designed to give it a competitive edge in the hotly contested pickup truck segment. The fully imported (CBU, from Thailand) 2024 D-Max is offered in eight variants, with prices as follows: 3.0 4x4 X-Terrain AT - RM 157,938 3.0 4x4 Premium AT - RM 141,138 1.9 4x4 Premium AT - RM 134,649 1.9 4x2 Auto Plus AT - RM 109,499 1.9 4x4 Standard

Having already unveiled the hydrogen Toyota Hilux fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) project at the tail end of last year, the carmaker has peeled the covers off its first working prototype of the model on the shores of the Toyota Manufacturing UK plant in Derby, England. Developed alongside consortium partners and supported by UK government funding, it's another building block in Toyota's vision of 'try one, try all' multi-pathway carbon-neutral motoring philosophy, which has so far seen the com

When Geely purchased a 49.9 percent stake in Proton from DRB-Hicom in 2017, the Chinese carmaker was upbeat about its goal to become the third largest automotive brand in the Southeast Asian ASEAN trade bloc by 2027. 5 years later, we are now at the midpoint of Geely’s 10-year goal for Proton. To the credit of the new team at Proton, the Malayan Tiger marque is now on a much stronger footing than it ever has since 2013. Proton ended 2022 with 141,432 cars delivered, up 23.3 percent from 2021, bu

Team Mitsubishi Ralliart, competing in specially prepared Mitsubishi Triton pickups have finished first place overall at the Asia Cross Country Rally (AXCR) 2022, in its first-ever outing at the event. Team Mitsubishi Ralliart, which receives technical support from Mitsubishi Motors, picked up top honours in the AXCR 2022, which took place between 21-26 November 2022 across Thailand and Cambodia, spanning a total distance of 1,524 km, including 637 km of timed special stages (SS). Over the total

As catchy as advertising taglines come, they don’t get much better that “Mother Trucker” – which brings to mind just one pickup – the Nissan Navara. Big and capable, across its three-generations, the Nissan Navara has built a reputation as a somewhat inbetween choice between the mainstream workhorse pickups such as the Toyota Hilux and Isuzu D-Max, and newer lifestyle centric pickups such as the Mitsubishi Triton, Ford Ranger, and Mazda BT-50. Macho… and Japanese as it may be, the Navara unfortu

Malaysia’s Mitsubishi Triton is imported (CBU) from Mitsubishi Motors (Thailand) Co., Ltd.’s plant in Laem Chabang, Chonburi. The company has just announced that it has invested THB 3 billion (about RM 378 million) into a new paint shop. The upgraded body painting facility is said to improve paint quality, reduce emission volatile organic compounds (VoCs), and cut water wastage. Specifically, Mitsubishi Motors says the new paint shop improves paint quality in complicated and deep paint areas – p