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Toyota Hilux wins 10th Hagerty Festival of the Unexceptional

Hagerty UK, which specialises in classic car and bike insurance, organises many activities for car enthusiasts and one of these is a rather unusual event – the annual Hagerty Festival of the Unexceptional. The Festival of the Unexceptional (FOTU) began...

1984 Honda HP-X concept restored for Pebble Beach event

Automakers have been creating concept cars since the 1940s. These design studies usually preview future models or technologies and are attractions at motorshows. Virtually every automaker – even our own Perodua and Proton – have come out with their...

Auto Union Type 52 is finally built – after 90 years

Auto Union AG, the merger of Audi, DKW, Horch, and Wanderer in 1932, was a well known participant in motorsport in the 1930s, especially Grands Prix. Its Silver Arrows became legendary as pioneering racing cars, setting records that took...

Honda’s hybrid (e:HEV) technology is 25 years old

Electrified powertrains have been known for long time and the first functional powertrain which used an electric motor with a combustion engine was designed by Ferdinand Porsche over 120 years ago. However, the current era of electrification began in...

Proton was once at the Geneva International Motor Show

There will no longer be a Geneva International Motor Show. Over the 119 years the event has been run, numerous carmakers have taken part - including Proton. At the 2010 event, the Malaysian carmaker displayed the EMAS concept which was...

Federal Highway in Selangor in the 1990s

The Federal Highway in the early 1990s, looking towards Shah Alam, Selangor. On the right side, the open land is the Glenmarie area just cleared. Proton was starting to build its engine casting plant there. At the same time,...

The first Lamborghini returns to Geneva

In October 1963, a fairly new Italian car company presented its first prototype, a sportscar it designated ‘350 GTV’, at a motorshow in Turin. The company was called Automobili Lamborghini, founded by Ferrucio Lamborghini who had up till then...

A brief history of speed traps in Malaysia

Speed traps using cameras have been used in Malaysia since the 1970s when equipment supplied by Gatso was acquired by the PDRM. The Gatso cameras, which became popular with law enforcement authorities worldwide, were invented by former racing driver Maurice...

Origins of the 2-tone ‘floating roof’ styling feature

The 2-tone (usually black on top) colour scheme that has become common today can trace its origins to the first generation of the Renault Captur which was launched in 2013 in Europe. Although such an idea was available before...

Perodua has been offering free Tweckbot services since 2011

The Perodua Tweckbot team will be in Melaka this weekend to provide Perodua owners a free check of 50+ points of their vehicle. The location will be at Lotus’s Melaka Cheng and they will be there until March 10,...

Michelin’s 10-wheeler ‘frankenstein’ Citroen test vehicle

Ever since the first car was invented, engineers have made them faster and faster, resulting in greater demands on many areas of the vehicle. Not only did the stresses on the drivetrain and bodywork increase but the tyres –...

When James Bond used a Saab 900 Turbo

James Bond aka Agent 007 has been known to use many cars, with the Aston Martin DB5 being his favourite. Over the years, we saw him provided with different cars by ‘Q’ but never a Saab. In the Ian...
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