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. Click here to read the rest of Crash Test Results Display
This concept has been christened a strange name. This is the Suzuki Mom’s Personal Wagon.
Toyota is going the hybrid path after it’s hybrid models especially the Toyota Prius have shown tremendous success.
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Toyota Prius
The National Franchised Dealers Association has published the results of the latest Dealer Attitude Survey and Proton topped the charts. Click here to read the rest of Proton tops Dealer Attitude Survey
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.
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.
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. Click here to read the rest of Proton Waja EuroNCAP Crash Test
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.
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Source: The Malay Mail
Nissan has been using the Tokyo Motor Show to gives us previews on the next legendary GT-R Skyline. In 2001, they unveiled the GT-R Concept, based on the Infiniti G35 which later became the Nissan Skyline V35. In 2003, it announced the next Skyline R35 GT-R would be unveiled in 2007.
This is TUV’s crash test video of the Jiangling Landwind X6. Bear in mind this is after Jiangling had made some adjustments to the SUV, and this test was conducted at a lower speed of 54km/h instead of 64km/h. Still looks like a disaster to me, although TUV says all’s good and the SUV passes. I wonder why Jiangling wants to sue ADAC? Click here to read the rest of Jiangling Landwind X6 Crash Test by TUV
