Reports out of Japan suggest that Honda is developing a new Toyota Corolla Cross competitor, and it’s due to be launched later this year, sometime around June to September 2022. Size-wise, the as-yet-unnamed SUV will slot between the all-new Honda HR-V and Honda CR-V. It will be platform mates with the Honda Civic, and is likely to be offered with a regular 1.5-litre turbocharged four-cylinder engine or the e:HEV hybrid. Also read: Review: 2022 Honda Civic FE – Forget baby Accord, it’s on par wi

Regardless of whether you are in China or in Malaysia, both the Honda HR-V and Proton X50 (also known as the Geely Binyue) are immensely well-received. As impressive as their on-paper specifications may be, the burning question is: which one fares better in a crash test? In an effort to determine which subcompact SUV safer, Chinese portal DaBiaoChe crash tested the China-market Honda HR-V and a Geely Binyue. Both SUVs were pitted in a frontal offset crash test and here’s the data gathered by DaB

It goes without saying that the Honda HR-V has been a runaway success in our market. When it was launched back in 2015, the waiting period for one stretched to almost 6 months. It ticked all the right boxes for many Malaysian car buyers and was THE bang-for-buck SUV way before the Proton X50. Here's a quick breakdown of the Honda HR-V's variants and pricing (SST discounts included, valid till 31-December 2021): Honda HR-V variants & pricing Variant 1.8 E 1.8 V 1.8 RS Price (RM) 104,000 113,421 1

At a recent virtual meeting with Dr. Håkan Sandquist, director of powertrain strategy at the Geely-Volvo Car jointly owned powertrain specialist CEVT AB, we posed a question to the person who lead the development of the Proton X50’s three-cylinder 1.5 TGDi and 1.5 MPI, will Geely go smaller than 3-cylinders? Beyond the 1.5-litre 3-cylinder, Geely also has a 1.0-litre three-cylinder for the Chinese and European market. So how small is too small? The simple answer is that 2-cylinder engines are un

Geely has officially launched its largest SUV yet, the Geely Haoyue. At launch, the Haoyue is offered as a 7-seater while a 5-seater configuration will be available in the future. Visually, the Haoyue takes after the Geely ICON’s boxy silhouette. Familiar cues include the expanding cosmos grille, Geely inscription across the tailgate, and slim LED taillamps. Note that the rear quarter glass is fairly big to give the 3rd-row passengers an airy impression inside. The Haoyue aims squarely against t

The debut of Proton X70 in December 2018 took Malaysia by storm, so well that the C-segment SUV set a record for the most registration by an SUV during launch. Proton X70 This is reinforced even further when the X70 took home Midsize Crossover and SUVs 5-seater category, and the Overall Car of The Year 2019 at the 18th Malaysia Cars of the Year Awards (previously known as COTY). It catapulted Proton back to the top of the pyramid, once again becoming a major threat to other manufacturer in the l