UMW Toyota Motor (UMWT) has just announced that it ended 2023 with 108,107 units sold, its highest ever since 2012, when it sold 105,151 units. Within the announcement is a quote from President Datuk Ravindran K., which provided some hints on what new Toyota models the company plans to launch in 2024. “As we look forward to 2024, our focus will be on introducing more models, particularly with an emphasis on xEV technologies.” xEV is an umbrella that encompasses battery electric vehicles (BEV), p

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indonesia (TMMIN) has just released its production data for export markets in the first half of 2023 (H1 2023) which saw 139,581 units being made at its plants all over the archipelago. Toyota alone contributed 52.6% of the total figure of export production models in Indonesia during H1 2023. Based on Gaikindo’s data, a total of 248,004 units of completely built-up (CBU) vehicles were exported from Indonesia. TMMIN doesn’t have the data for individual models but the mo

Following the reveal of prices and variants of the 2023 Toyota Yaris Cross in Indonesia, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indonesia (TMMIN) announced that the DNGA-based B-segment SUV will be exported to at least 25 countries in Asia as well as Central and South America. Based on these recent photos taken by a Facebook user named Boom Dunyawat, it seems that Thailand will be the next market destination for the developing market-spec Yaris Cross. The set of photos was uploaded over the weekend and show

The Toyota Yaris Cross will be entering the ASEAN region soon, as a scoop from Thailand’s headlightmag revealed. While the Yaris Cross name is identical to the already-on-sale, TNGA-B-based model that’s offered in Singapore, Japan, and Europe, this upcoming Yaris Cross will be different. Instead of the pricey TNGA-B platform, the ASEAN Yaris Cross will be underpinned by the DNGA platform, similar to the D92A / AC100 Toyota Vios, Perodua Ativa, Perodua Alza, and soon-to-be launched D74A Perodua A

Last week, we showed you ten expensive-looking cars under RM 100k and some of you think those selections don’t quite shout ‘appearing rich’. Indeed, the Proton X50 and X70 may feel expensive but they’re still a Proton (or Geely) underneath. For this week’s Top Rank Millionaire-Looking Motors (MLM), we’re bumping up the budget to RM 200,000 and unlike the last list, we’ll be focusing only in the used car market. We’ve selected 8 for this list and you can be certain these fine cars will make you g

Making its first debut as a production car in 2017, the Lexus LC 500 is Lexus’s idea of what a grand tourer should be. The “LC” itself stands for Luxury Coupe. The year 2020 sees a huge number of enhancements on the LC 500 in terms of safety, luxury, and performance. Inside the luxurious cockpit, one sits behind a 5.0 litre V8 by Lexus (2UR-GSE) producing 470 horsepower and 540 Nm of torque. Weighing just under two tonnes, this luxury grand tourer is rather quick with a 4.4 seconds 0-100km/h tim