While the Toyota Vios entered its newest generation, the AC100, its hatchback twin, the Yaris is still soldiering on with the older platform. The XP150 Yaris has gotten an extensive third facelift which made its debut in Thailand, but some markets are still offering the outgoing second facelift like Malaysia. One market that decided to give up on the XP150 Yaris though is the Philippines with Auto Industriya reporting that the hatchback has been quietly dropped from Toyota Motor Philippines’ (TM

Honda Malaysia (or the Company) today announced a proactive product recall involving the City, City Hatchback, HR-V and BR-V in a precautionary safety measure. The details of the affected models are in Table 1. Honda recalls 2022 Situation Model Model Year Units Affected A City 2021 1,068 City Hatchback 2022 B HR-V 2020 343 BR-V 2021 116 The recalls are for the following situations: A. Inspection of the nut torque on the Alternating Current Generator (ACG) This recall is a precautionary safety m

The Perodua Myvi now faces slightly stiffer competition in the facelifted 2022 Proton Iriz range, which were launched on 4-August 2021. There's quite a lot of improvements (which we've covered in an earlier Old vs New article), so our spotlight here is on the range-topping Iriz Active. Overview - Easier to pick one out now Besides this Active (which supercedes the pre-facelift's 1.6 Premium), Proton now offers only three variants of the Iriz, with the 1.3 Standard and 1.6 Executive completing th

This morning, we brought you news of the 2021 Proton Iriz R3 Edition. Barely a few hours after that, there are photos of the 2021 Proton Saga R3 Edition sitting on trailers, presumably heading to showrooms. Courtesy of these photos from our friends at Funtasticko, we can see both models share the same black-and-yellow scheme that's synonymous with last year's Saga 35th Anniversary Edition. To cap the racy look, both models also get a graphic along the sides. Unlike the Iriz which apparently gets

In the recent years, we have welcomed some new three-cylinder engine cars to the world – the Nissan Almera 1.0 turbo, Honda City 1.0 turbo (Thailand), Proton X50, and more excitingly, the Toyota GR Yaris. Even Christian von Koenigsegg has channelled his genius into developing a 600 HP three-cylinder engine. With these developments however, some of us still remain very sceptical of them. We will never forget the underpowered three pots in tiny cars like the Perodua Kancil and Perodua Kelisa. Sure

Malaysian rally ace Karamjit Singh is working to secure a driving seat in a Proton Iriz R5 built by UK’s Mellors Motorsports, according to Careta.my, Following Karamjit's meeting with the Ministry of Youth and Sports (KBS) yesterday, Minister Dato' Sri Reezal Merican Naina Merican has said that the ministry is in principle, agreeable to allocate RM 3 million to sponsor Karamjit Singh’s participation at the 2021 Asia Pacific Rally Championship (APRC). The keyword here is ‘in principle.’ To date,