Three-row SUVs don’t often receive plenty of fanfare in Malaysia but when it has the Thundercat roundel badge, all eyes are certainly on it. After all, the 2023 Proton X90 will represent many firsts for Malaysia’s first carmaker. Following the Proton X70 and the Proton X50, the X90 will be the third Proton SUV model and it is also the third rebadged Geely model ever since the Chinese automaker took over some ownership of the Malaysian carmaker. Still, there are some Malaysians who simply felt a

Toyota and Tesla, the two big Ts of the automotive world cannot be any more different. Toyota is the antithesis of Tesla, and vice-versa. On one side of the extreme, Tesla sees nothing wrong with using their customers to test features with unproven safety - kudos to Elon Musk for convincing his fans to pay USD 15,000 for the privilege to be become a Tesla lab rat. Get the products out first, fix the problems later is Tesla's way of doing business. On the opposite end you have Toyota. There is a

Just weeks after its global debut in Indonesia, India has launched the all-new 2023 Toyota Innova today. If you have watched enough Hindi movies or news clips from India, you would know that the Toyota Innova is viewed very differently over there. In India, the Innova is almost on par with a Toyota Alphard. It’s hard for us in Malaysia to understand but there’s a good reason for it. The Alphard’s lower ground clearance makes it a poor choice to deal with the frequent flash floods and poor road c

Sime Darby Auto ConneXion (SDAC), the sole distributor for Ford in Malaysia, is offering a 2-year free service package to new customers of selected Ford Ranger WildTrak and XLT Plus models, while stocks last. The 2-year free service deal is applicable for 2021 Ranger WildTrak and XLT Plus models only and is available now on a first come, first served basis. Also read: 2021 Ford Ranger is now more expensive in Malaysia, price up across the range The company also recently enhanced its customer ser

The 2021 Mercedes-AMG CLA 45 S is now equipped with Head Up Display, AMG Track Pace, and Active Parking Assist with Parktronic. Apart from those, the fully-imported CLA 45 S remains the same as before except the price – now at RM 453,374 (OTR without insurance, with SST discount), nearly RM 20k more than before. To recap, the Mercedes-AMG CLA 45 S is powered by the M139 2.0-litre engine that makes 421 PS and 500 Nm, paired to an 8-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission. The 4Matic+ emblem mean

By the time you read this article, you’d probably be swamped with news of the incoming 2021 Perodua D55L. After all, Perodua has already opened bookings for the SUV (which might be is called Ativa) and it does have some interesting specs. While this year will see the focus shift to the second 'national’ carmaker, Proton doesn’t want Malaysians to direct their attention to the next big thing that also happened to be an SUV. So, mere days before Perodua opened the order books, the Malaysian tiger