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

Such is the granular focus of the engineering team during the creation of the Proton X90. Just like the X50 and X70 that preceded it, many millions of test kilometres were racked up. To be specific, over 1.2 million km of testing were done for the new three-row SUV. "For the development, we started from the mule to the mass production car, so every variant we have tested for the suspension tuning," explained the model's Vehicle Chief Engineer, Zabani Bin Hj. Yaakob. "During the development, the

Ever since being taken over by Dinamikjaya Motors, Kia has started a bit of a revival among consumers in Malaysia despite only having a couple of models in its line-up. The Kia Sorento seems likely to be model number three based on this latest discovery. This Astra Blue Sorento was spotted while we were covering the BYD Atto 3’s launch. The Chinese EV maker is distributed here by Sime Darby Motors which is one of the shareholders for the Inokom plant in Kulim, Kedah which currently assembles (CK

Lane splitting bikers in Malaysia terrorising our city streets are one of the reasons why we cannot enjoy autonomous driving ‘robotaxi’ services that are already being rolled out in China and USA. Looking at it another way, the law-less nature of Malaysian roads is a perfect training ground to ‘teach’ a computer how to drive, and this is exactly what the Volvo Car Group is doing. If an autonomous driving vehicle can work in Malaysia, it will certainly work in many cities elsewhere. Seen here is

The Geely Okavango, known in China as the Geely Haoyue, has made its official launch in Saudi Arabia. The 7-seater SUV in the Middle East is powered by a 1.5 turbocharged 3-cylinder petrol engine, similar to the Okavango in the Philippines. In case you have not made the link, the 1.5-litre turbocharged engine is the same unit that powers the Proton X50. However, the Okavango’s engine is aided by a 48V mild-hybrid battery which boosts power output to 190 PS and 300 Nm. Like the X50, the Okavango’

Geely has just revealed the pricing of its latest SUV, the Geely Haoyue. The Haoyue is priced between CNY 108k to 148k (RM 65k to 89k). The Haoyue is available in either a 5 or 7-seater configuration and interestingly the range-topping model is a 5-seater. Geely SUV model pricing: Model Price Range Geely Binyue CNY 78k – 119k (RM 47k - 71k) Geely Boyue CNY 88k – 119k (RM 53k - 71k) Geely Boyue Pro CNY 98k – 156k (RM 59k - 94k) Geely Haoyue CNY 108k – 148k (RM 65k - 89k) As you can see from the t