Switchback after switchback, it was becoming pretty apparent that I was never going to test the limits of the 2023 Audi Q2. 2023 Audi Q2 Malaysian specs Price RM 276,710 Segment Subcompact premium SUV Engine 1.4-litre 4-cyl turbo 150 PS @ 5,000 - 6,000 rpm 250 Nm @ 1,500 - 3,500 rpm Transmission 8-speed torque-converter automatic Origin CBU Ingolstadt, Germany Not like I was trying to anyway. The only challenge I held myself to was to get out of the Tapah backroads before night fell, because hea

On the sidelines of the 2022 Perodua Ativa Hybrid handover to customers in Kuala Lumpur today, Perodua President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Datuk Seri Zainal Abidin Ahmad said that over "600 units" were applied for. "For now, there's roughly 600 applicants [for this model]," he said to reporters at the event. This is double the total 300 units of Ativa Hybrid allocated for Malaysians, all of which have been spoken for anyway. That's certainly a good start to Perodua's electrification jour

Volkswagen Passenger Cars Malaysia (VPCM) has refreshed its eShowroom to provide greater convenience for those looking to purchase a Volkswagen. On the revamped website, customers will now have access to available units on sale at Volkswagen authorised dealerships nationwide in real time. Loosely based on the concept of “what you see is what you get”, only models that are available at dealerships will be featured. Customers may search the website to find what models are currently available and t

If you’re a fan of the Jaguar F-Pace, you’ll be glad to know the sleeker, facelift is now available here as Jaguar Land Rover Malaysia introduced it. A fortnight after the updated XF was launched here, the refreshed F-Pace arrives in a sole variant; the 2.0L R-Dynamic It’ll be priced from RM598,800 that is inclusive of the 10% sales and service tax (SST). The F-Pace adopts the current design language such as the “double J” DRL light signature within the noticeably slimmer LED headlights that’s n

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

Model | Gallery With the hatchback Volvo V40 no more, the taller riding (and higher priced) Volvo XC40 is now the lowest entry point to the Volvo family. This five-seater locally-assembled XC40 is priced at RM 255,888 and it’s only available in one T5 AWD R-Design variant. A small number of cheaper but lower power output T4 variants were also imported late last year but these have all been sold out. There wasn’t a lot of difference in the prices, a circa RM 10k difference but the reduction in fe