UPDATE for July 2023: For a limited time period, CARSOME is offering an additional 1+1 year warranty for selected units of Honda City and Toyota Vios. Find out more here. ------------------ In the battle of the B-Segment family sedan, two names reign supreme. For well over a decade, many car buyers moving on from their first car or ones that are starting a family would’ve likely have had to pick between the proven Honda City or Toyota Vios. As the all-new 2023 Toyota Vios now takes centre stage,

UMW Toyota has launched the Toyota GR86 in Malaysia, priced from RM 295,000 for the 6-speed manual to RM 305,000 for the 6-speed automatic variant. Like its predecessor, the Toyota GR86 is fully imported (CBU) from Japan. Let’s start with the powertrain, it gets a 2.4-litre boxer engine (FA24) that makes 237 PS/250 Nm (37 PS and 45 Nm more than the FA20 in the first generation 86), mated to a 6-speed manual or 6-speed automatic transmission. Both transmissions have been updated to accommodate th

Last year, Toyota wrestled back the No. 1 non-national car brand spot from Honda, and naturally they got there by selling the Toyota Vios, Toyota Yaris, and Toyota Hilux by the boatloads to Malaysians. The Vios took the gong as the brand's best-selling model, and the Yaris, the nation's top-selling hatchback. Naturally this means there's thousands of them out there, and for buyers looking to set themselves apart there's the GR Parts set by Gazoo Racing. Also read: Move aside Honda, Toyota is now

Would you be surprised with the headline? Of course not. It’s just the way things are these days, whether you like it or not. Two out of five (or 40 percent) of Mercedes-Benz cars sold globally are SUV models. Mercedes-Benz sold 2,164,187 cars in 2020 (down 10.3 percent). The figure includes 38,391 units of Smart models, but excluding commercial vans (325,771 units) and trucks. The commercial trucks division has since been spun off as a separate company, Daimler Truck AG, but it is still parked

Shortly after prices for the 2021 Toyota Vios facelift were announced, we heard you ask: 'What's new? What's still the same?" These questions are what we'll be answering in this article. Exterior - Hey there, good lookin' Like its recently-facelifted 2021 Toyota Yaris stablemate, the redesign makes the Vios look more mature. Toyota has done away with the catfish-esque design of the pre-facelift model, this time employing sharper LED head lamps with integrated daytime running lights (DRLs) to acc

The Toyota GR Yaris, despite being an entry-level Gazoo Racing model, isn’t cheap, but Tamiya has found a solution in the form of a newly-released 1/32 Mini 4WD model. Priced at a mere JPY 1,210 (about RM 48), it is roughly 5,666 times cheaper than the actual GR Supra. Being a Tamiya model, the details from the GR Yaris are accurately scaled down, which includes the aggressive headlights, flared arches, and carbon fibre roof. The 1/32 version of the GR Yaris is based on Tamiya’s VZ Chassis, slig