Mitsubishi Motors Corporation has unveiled its all-new Mitsubishi Xforce compact SUV at the ongoing Gaikindo Indonesia Auto Show 2023. Billed as the successor to the longstanding ASX - and previewed by the striking XFC Concept - Mitsubishi's new 5-seater compact SUV is slated to go on sale in Indonesia, followed by other ASEAN markets as well as South Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. Also read: Mitsubishi ASX returns? Order books opened in Indonesia - 2023 production car of XFC c

Plastics are everywhere around us. From the containers we use to pack lunches to even the air we breathe the electronic device you’re reading this article on. It’s also in cars and the average vehicle has 30,000 parts. Out of those, one-third or 10,000 of those parts are made of plastic so even if the material is hazardous to the environment, we’re very much reliant on it. Mazda though has a solution for a more environmentally friendly plastic and it has been developing it for years before carbo

So, another year older, another year marked with interesting (or forgettable) cars, and we'll be doing it all over again next year. SUVs will undoubtedly continue to play a greater focus here, so in this article – part one of three – we'll look at the possible non-luxury, non-EV SUVs that are very likely to launch in Malaysia in 2023. Hang on to your downpayments, we're going straight in... 2023 Chery Omoda 5 We'll start off with a bang, perhaps the most awaited-for model in this list. It's alre

The big news of the day that overshadowed all other debuts at the 2022 Jakarta Auto Week (JAW) is the surprise preview of the 2022 Kia Sportage. According to our colleagues in Autofun, PT Kreta Indo Artha (KIA) didn’t only just silently preview the SUV, they also did not reveal any details on whether they plan to relaunch the Sportage in the archipelago. Also read: Hyundai chooses Indonesia but Kia prefers to do CKD in Malaysia over Thailand, here’s why Previewed in a matte ash grey, a colour th

When the Mazda MX-30 made its world debut at the 2019 Tokyo Motor Show, the car, which is based on the CX-30, was presented as Mazda’s first series production fully electric vehicle, and that it will go on sale sometime in 2021. However, many have speculated that the MX-30 won’t exist as an electric-only model range, and that a hybrid model will eventually join the MX-30’s variant line-up. A small capacity rotary-type range extender engine was also speculated to complement the electric-only vari

The Mazda CX-30 made an appearance this year at the Geneva Motor Show and last week, Adrian had a walkaround with it at the 2019 Tokyo Motor Show. The CX-30 slots in the gap between the CX-3 and CX-5 (CX-4 already taken) and is based on the new Mazda 3, which explains the pretty much identical interior. As seen in the video, interior space is not vast, a common Mazda trait but adequate for most Asian-sized adults. Materials and build quality is top notch. On the outside, the car rides on 18-inch