Just like its neighbour, Thailand, sales of electric vehicles (EV) in Indonesia are growing too, except calling it “growth” is an understatement. Explosion is more accurate as sales increased 571.4% in 2021 compared to 2020. Granted, the total number of EVs sold in the archipelago last year is still significantly smaller than the Land of Smiles. According to data collected by Gaikindo courtesy of our colleagues at AutoFun ID, 658 units of EVs were sold in Indonesia in 2021 compared to the 1,643

TC Subaru Sdn Bhd teamed up with Maybank to introduce a special Drive Now, Pay Later campaign. Customers will not need to pay for their loan instalments for 15 months upon collecting their new Subaru Forester. The offer is exclusively available for Maybank customers only and runs from 15-October-2021 to 31-December-2021. Interested buyers can pick from one of six variants listed below. Forester 2.0i-L GT Lite Edition (RM 163,788) Forester 2.0i-S (RM 149,788) Forester 2.0i-S GT Lite Edition Fores

Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) is now a rather common feature. What used to be exclusive only to luxury cars, is now available even on regular, common man’s cars like the Perodua Ativa, Proton X50, and Honda City. To recap, ACC is simply a more advanced version of a regular cruise control feature. While the latter is only capable of controlling the accelerator to maintain a preset speed on the highway, ACC also controls the brake. In some examples like the ones used by the Proton X50, Toyota Coro

Tonight at 8.30 pm, UMW Toyota Motor will be live streaming (in 8D audio, a first for a local car launch) the launch of its Toyota Corolla Cross, the company’s most important new model for 2021. To be priced not too far away from a Corolla Altis, the Corolla Cross will fill the void left behind by the now-discontinued (in Malaysia) Toyota C-HR. UPDATE: Toyota Corolla Cross has been launched, priced from RM 124k, details here. Curiously, the Corolla Cross’s mechanicals are almost identical to the

Hyundai is on a roll lately, making some nice cars - look at how the newly-launched in Malaysia 2021 Hyundai Elantra makes segment rivals' designs feel archaic. In Indonesia, they've just added a new model to their line-up: the 2021 Hyundai Palisade, now open for booking ahead of its January launch there. Scheduled to be officially launched in Indonesia in January 2021, the 7-seat SUV is available in three variants. The variants and prices start are as below: Prime: IDR 777 mil (~ RM 223k) Signa

The Volvo XC40 Recharge T5 plug-in hybrid has already gone on sale in Thailand, imported from Malaysia. Specifically, it’s imported from the Volvo Car Manufacturing’s plant in Shah Alam. The Volvo XC40 is the only model in Volvo Car Malaysia’s line-up to not be offered as a plug-in hybrid, so it’s only a matter of time before the plug-in hybrid variant is launched in Malaysia. Currently, the XC40 is only offered in Malaysia in one T5 R-Design AWD variant, priced from RM 241,450 (SST-exempted, va