** This article is published on WapCar Community, representing the opinion of users. Click the link below to enter the community for car enthusiasts in Malaysia https://forum.wapcar.my/ Basic information of my car: 1982 Toyota Corolla KE70 Reasons why I bought this car Bought this car to get into drift/track racing, also a lover of oldschool cars. Love working on own car, which I can improve myself and also one of my "stress relieve" Car selection process I had a budget of: RM5000.00 Models that

Priced at RM 262,460 First CKD EV in Malaysia Highest power and torque for the money Launched last month, the Volvo XC40 Recharge Pure Electric (EV)’s price has been announced by Volvo Car Malaysia at RM 262,460, on-the-road without insurance, inclusive of SST discount, valid until 30-June 2022. This makes the Volvo XC40 Recharge EV around RM 20k more expensive than the PHEV XC40 Recharge, which is priced at RM 242,055. As with all battery EVs (BEV) currently on sale in Malaysia, import and exci

UMW Toyota Motor has confirmed that it will be launching a hybrid model in Malaysia on 14-October. Specifically, the countdown timer on the newly setup ‘Toyota – Live Hybrid’ page will end on next 2 PM, Thursday, 14-October 2021. Toyota hasn’t confirmed the exact model to be launched, but the teaser image show the silhouette of an SUV, which if you were to refer to the model offerings by Toyota distributors in neighbouring countries like Thailand and Indonesia, it can only mean one model – the T

Since its introduction back in July, the first-ever Toyota Corolla Cross has proven to be quite a hit in Thailand. According to headlightmag, Toyota has managed to shift 1,258 units of the Corolla Cross back in July, surpassing the MG ZS (825 units), Honda HR-V (532 units), and Mazda CX-30 (463 units). Year-to-date, the MG ZS remains as a crowd-favourite in Thailand, recording a total of 5,355 units. Second place goes to the Honda HR-V with 4,199 units sold. Typically, a new model will experienc

Earlier this week, Toyota Thailand showcased the 2020 Toyota Corolla Cross at the Bangkok Motor Show. Let’s take a deep dive and see what’s up with Toyota’s first Corolla in this body style. Off the bat, there’s already two tarted up variants - the red Urban Sport and the grey Adventure. Both come with a host of options as we’ll see below. On the lower end of the scale is the 1.8 Sport. Pictures here are courtesy of our Thailand sister-site AutoFun. Exterior - Off-road credentials It’s by no mea

After over half a decade of sitting at the sidelines and watching the Honda HR-V going from strength to strength, Toyota finally has a product to rival the overachieving HR-V, it’s called the Toyota Corolla Cross, and yes it will be coming to Malaysia. Recall that we recently ran a post saying that UMW Toyota will be launching three new SUVs in the near term? The first candidate is obvious, that’s the Toyota RAV4. The remaining two models are less clear but today we can confirm one of it will be