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Archive for October, 2005

New Honda City facelift launch

The new Honda City was unveiled today (11/10/2005) after a marketing campaign to build up hype for it for the past month or so. This new facelift is known as the Honda City ZX in Thailand.

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Top Gear Crash Test Comparison

Top Gear shows you the differences between a 5 star crash test car, a 4 star crash test car and a 3 star crash test car. The cars involved is the Toyota Avensis, Ford Fiesta and Proton Impian (UK-spec Proton Waja) respectively.

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Crash Test Results Display

If you’ve noticed, vehicle safety seems to be dominating the topic of my blog posts for a while now. Car manufacturers and consumers are becoming increasingly safety-conscious, taking into account crash test results when purchasing a car.

Beginning 2007 in the USA, car buyers will be able to find out crash test results of their intended purchase much easier than before.

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Suzuki Mom’s Personal Wagon

This concept has been christened a strange name. This is the Suzuki Mom’s Personal Wagon.


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Toyota to go 100% Hybrid

Toyota is going the hybrid path after it’s hybrid models especially the Toyota Prius have shown tremendous success.


Toyota Prius

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Proton tops Dealer Attitude Survey

The National Franchised Dealers Association has published the results of the latest Dealer Attitude Survey and Proton topped the charts.

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Proton Edar and EON merger?

An unnamed industry source says that Proton may buy up DRB-Hicom’s 29.3% stake in car distributor Edaran Otomobil Nasional Bhd (EON).

The source said Proton may start with buying up DRB-Hicom shares, then proceed to buy up other stake held by government through the EPF and Khazanah Nasional which owns 12% and 6.2% respectively.

The plan is to eventually combine Proton Edar and EON.

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BYD Auto F3

It’s amazing what mainland China can come up with these days. Have a look at this sedan - the BYD Auto F3. It’s a B-class sedan weighing about 1200kg.


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Proton Waja EuroNCAP Crash Test

Here’s the video of the Proton Waja EuroNCAP Crash test. I remember seeing this on Top Gear once, where Jeremy Clarkson was showing the difference between a Ford Fiesta, Proton Impian (Waja) and a Toyota Avensis. The Toyota naturally scored a 5 star out of 5 star result.

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AP freeze for Wald lifted

The Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) has sent a letter to the Road Transport Department (RTD) to inform them that Wald-tuned vehicles are now allowed to be registered again.

The freeze on the issuance of APs for the Wald marque to Amazing Tempo Sdn Bhd had also been lifted. This means Amazing Tempo Sdn Bhd can now resume business.

The report by Malay Mail did not state what happened to investigations on Amazing Tempo Sdn Bhd’s non-compliance with import procedures, which included allegations of underdeclaring car prices to avoid tax. More details here.

Related Posts:
Why did MITI stop issuing APs to Walds Amazing Tempo Sdn Bhd?
Amazing Tempo Sdn Bhd’s press statement regarding AP freeze
MITI stopped issuing APs for Wald

Source: The Malay Mail

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