An edited version of my blog post The Korean Advantage is in MalaysiaKini as a letter. Check it out if you want to, the MalaysiaKini editors have edited it to be much lighter and clearer.

Lotus has just revealed to the press their new Lotus Circuit Car prototype. The Lotus Circuit Car is based on the same aluminium chassis that the Lotus Elise has and weighs 650kg. It is a single seater by default, with a second seat being optional. The entire car was designed and built in eleven weeks.

Pushing that 650kg worth of engineering around will be a Toyota 1.8 intercooled supercharged VVTL-i engine. This 2ZZ-GE engine has a Roots-type Eaton M62 blower that blows through an intercooler to boost power output to 243hp at 8000rpm and max torque of 236Nm at 7000rpm. An N/A version is also available making 190hp at 8000rpm and 181Nm torque at 7000rpm.

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Denis Wong of Autocar reviews the Proton Savvy and gives it pretty good comments.

They have photos with very good angles of the black Proton Savvy with a Malaysian number plate.

Read the rest of the review here at Autocar.

Top Gear covered the Ariel Atom 2, an ultra stripped down track car for the road (or a souped up go-kart, whichever way you want to look at it). It’s all praises, and you’d be suprised at the track test results at the end.

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It’s not just Honda and BMW who have been putting their F1 experience to use in their road cars. Meet the Lexus LF-A.

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This piece by Zainul Arrifin in the NST seems to indicate that Proton used to have a Japanese managing director back in 1988 - Mr. Kenji Iwabuchi, from Mitsubishi Motor Corp.

The top position went back to a Malaysian in 1993. Datuk Mohd Nadzmi Mohd Salleh. 1988-1993, that’s 5 years.

So a foreigner in the top position at Proton isn’t really as foreign as you think it is.

The Acura NSX - This beauty’s production is to be stopped end of this year.

The successor to the venerable Acura NSX has been announced and it will come with Honda’s SH-AWD all-wheel drive system.

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The Toyota Prius has been a hit especially in the USA where the people love it for it’s excellent fuel economy and the tax breaks that comes with using a hybrid vehicle.

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The Ariel Atom. This my friends, is not what I’d consider a car. More like a Go-Kart. But it’s powered by a supercharged Honda K20 engine making 300 horsepower on a 456kg body. Madness? Yes. It is fast? YES!

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A monster in the rear view mirror…

Mitsubishi Delica VR4?