While Europe can have a single Car of the Year (COTY) award that encompasses different countries, it is not easy to have one for the ASEAN region. The major markets have different tax policies that create different price structures...
Tesla’s Cybertruck looks like no truck you’ve seen before with its futuristic angular shape, flat surfaces and pyramid-like roof. But such a design concept was actually proposed in 1980 by Carrozeria Coggiola (which later designed the original Saab 9000)...
It's that time when Car of the Year (COTY) awards are being given out for the best of the new models launched in Malaysia.
In 1974, almost 50 years ago, what was likely to have been the first Car of...
In the early 2000s, shortly after the Waja was launched, Proton had a unique display at the Pusat Sains Negara in Kuala Lumpur which showed the various parts of the new car's engine.
Different from the Wira engine
The 1.6-litre engine...
Today, the Porsche badge is familiar to just about anyone and regarded as a famous design in automotive history. However, its design was not on the first car of the brand in 1948; in the early years, all that...
The iconic Premier Padmini taxi that has been a common sight in Mumbai in India will no longer be seen on the roads. October 30 was the last day that the taxis were allowed to be used as the...
The Audi TT celebrates its 25th anniversary this year and sadly, it is also the year that production of the Coupe and Roadster models will end. A pivotal model for the German carmaker in the 1990s, the TT was...
Vespa, to most people, is the brand of scooters from Italy and the 2-wheelers would be the only vehicles that come to mind when the name is mentioned. However, there was a brief period towards the end of the...
When the National Car project was initiated in the first half of the 1980s,the Japanese yen was still low and so the first Malaysian National Car – the Proton Saga – could be priced at RM17,575. However, after the...
20 years ago, Proton wanted to enhance its brand image and be distinct from other low-cost automakers (typically from East Asia) by having a technological flagship in the form of a 2-litre mid-engined sportscar.
At that time in the early...
In the 1970s, Toyota saw Southeast Asia as a steadily developing region and expected mobility needs to increase. Alongside the Corolla for private use, there was also growing demand for light commercial vehicles, especially for agriculture and industries.
This led...
BMW Group Malaysia has now been in Malaysia for 20 years, having been one of the early global carmakers to establish its own marketing and sales subsidiary after the government revised conditions for investors in the late 1990s.
More assured...
