It's monumental today at Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Kuala Lumpur as the first customers have begun receiving their very own 2022 Perodua Ativa Hybrid at the currently-ongoing handover ceremony. These first owners of what is technically Malaysia's first-ever hybrid car will be participating in a two-pronged feasibility study, in which the first is to understand group driving behaviour of a hybrid vehicle in populated locations in the country, namely in the Klang Valley, Penang, and Johor Bahru. Pur

After its regional debut in Indonesia, Hyundai Motor Thailand is next to launch the Hyundai Creta. Imported (CBU) from Indonesia, the 5-seater SUV has a starting price of THB 949,000, about RM 119,919. Despite having a rather powertrain – a 1.5-litre naturally aspirated petrol engine that makes 115 PS / 144 Nm, paired to a CVT (Hyundai calls it IVT) driving the front wheels - the Hyundai Creta is only a negligible 3 percent cheaper than the hybrid-only 2022 Honda HR-V (from THB 979,000, about RM

Price reduction of up to RM 9k depending on variant Arrives in facelifted form Output stands at 286 PS/400 Nm, with 461 km range Following the Budget 2022 announcement on the tax exemption for EVs, the tax-free price of the BMW iX3 is now revealed - from RM 327,800 for the Inspiring variant and RM 345,800 for the Impressive variant – both of which include the BMW Service & Repair Inclusive: 5-Year Extended Warranty and 6-Year Service Package, as well as the Power Package. Previously, the BMW iX3

The BMW Group will be will be ready for any ban on internal combustion engine (ICE) cars from 2030 onwards, CEO Oliver Zipse said earlier this week conference in the town of Nuertingen, near Stuttgart. Speaking on the European Union’s proposed ban on combustion engine cars from 2035 as part of a broader package of measures to combat global warming, Zipse told Reuters, "We will be ICE-ban ready. If a region, a city, a country gets the idea of banning ICEs, we have an offering." "The BMW Group is

Berjaya Corp Bhd (BCorp) announced late yesterday that it has sold its 51 percent stake in the Peugeot distributorship joint venture Berjaya Auto Alliance Sdn Bhd (BAASB), to Bermaz Auto (BAuto) and BAASB’s other shareholders for RM 6.67 million. Berjaya Corp’s CEO Jalil Rasheed said the divestment is part of the group’s rationalization exercise to divest non-core assets. "With BAuto being part of the BCorp Group previously, we recognised that it would be more synergistic for BAuto to acquire Be

Hyundai Sime Darby Motors (HSDM), the official distributor of Hyundai vehicles in Malaysia has just dropped a teaser of the upcoming Hyundai Kona on its Facebook page, hinting that the launch is just around the corner. The caption simply said, “A glance of the "upcoming" interior. You Drive it. You Define it.”, posted together with the interior of the Kona. Now, the Hyundai Kona has been a long time coming – the car was earmarked for Malaysia since 2017 and HSDM previewed it at the 2018 Kuala Lu