Armoured vehicles come in all shapes and sizes, and when you think of one, usually a large Cadillac-esque vehicle pops in your mind. Or maybe a tank. Very few would imagine a Toyota Corolla Cross, but hey, now we have one. Brazilian customers can now opt for bulletproof versions of its popular models, namely the Corolla, Corolla Cross, Hilux, and Fortuner, built by several armouring specialists within the country. The armouring experts—Avallon, Carbon, Evolution Blindagens, and Parvi Blindados—a

The 2024 Toyota Hilux facelift will move into Australian showrooms in March 2024, with the market being the first in the world to sell the pick-up truck with its new hybrid powertrain. With its revamped aesthetic – first seen in Indonesia – that highlights a tougher front end, the main draw of the refreshed Hilux for Australia is its new 48-volt, mild-hybrid (MHEV) technology. It will be standard fitment to the higher-end variants for the market, namely the 4x4 Rogue and automatic SR5 double-cab

Sime Darby Auto ConneXion (SDAC), the sole distributor of Ford in Malaysia, recently clinched the highly-coveted Henry Ford Excellence Award for ensuring the highest level of overall customer satisfaction, exceptional business performance and the most outstanding customer initiative in 2022. Additionally, for the fourth consecutive year, the company has also earned the President’s Award for Sales and President’s Award for Service for both the highest level of sales customer satisfaction and the

It looks like the Isuzu D-Max is not at risk of being upstaged by its sister-car the Mazda BT-50, as the D-Max will be launched in Malaysia ahead of the BT-50. WapCar.my understands that there is a direction by Mazda Motor for its overseas distributors to show respect to its partner Isuzu by granting Isuzu the privilege of launching the D-Max first. In Australia, the first export market for the all-new D-Max, Mazda Australia had intentionally delayed the launch of the BT-50 there by one month, a

Sime Darby Auto ConneXion (SDAC), the sole distributor of Ford vehicles in Malaysia, introduced a new 5-year manufacturer’s warranty for all 2021 Ford Ranger. This is a 2-year extension to the original 3-year manufacturer’s warranty. The new 5-year manufacturer’s warranty or 160,000 km (whichever comes first) is part of SDAC’s efforts to offer owners of the Ranger line up with added value. But existing Ranger owners are not left out. SDAC has 2 new warranty extension plans on offer known as the

Shortly before the world shut itself down and braced for Covid-19, Land Rover hosted an international media drive for its all-new Land Rover Defender in Namibia. The all-new Defender is nothing like its predecessor, and in a good way, no matter what die-hard fans of the old Defender will say. We have to move on and embrace progress. The most obvious difference with the all-new Defender is the switch from ladder frame chassis to unibody construction, aluminium of course. In fact, within the Defen