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  Malaysia-USA Free Trade Agreement to open market for car export

  20 March 2006 / 23 comments

  Malaysian car manufacturers Proton, Perodua might be able to enter the US market with the upcoming Free Trade Agreement between Malaysia and the USA. Malaysia is currently the USA’s 10th largest trading partner, with transactions […]

   

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  What is Perodua up to? – Kelisa Imago

  18 March 2006 / 46 comments

  There’s a small teaser on Perodua’s site, depicting a nice pair of eyes. One of them is silver, and one of them is green. The teaser text says “Sometimes silver, sometimes green” and beckons us […]

   

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  Ever seen a broken down Toyota?

  17 March 2006 / 13 comments

  Another amusing automobile-related ad. Toyota milks their reputation of reliability with this advertisement. Pretty confident heheh. But yeah, it’s not to say that they haven’t earned the reputation. Check it out. Video is after the […]

   

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  2006 Hartge H50 V10 based on the BMW E90

  17 March 2006 / 13 comments

  While BMW toils to prepare it’s new 4.0 litre V8 engine for the new BMW M3, Hartge has injected some well needed horsepower into the new BMW E90 3-series. Feeling that the top of the […]

   

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  Man sues himself for hitting his own car

  16 March 2006 / 9 comments

  This is just some weird news. Happened in California today. Curtis Gokey’s car was hit by a Lodi city dump truck. And he’s suing the city hall for damages to his car. The only thing […]

   

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  What is a blow off valve, can I put it on my N/A car?

  16 March 2006 / 27 comments

  Questions from beginner car enthusiasts on where to get blow off valves for normally aspirated cars are not uncommon as they don’t know what blow off valves are for, and how they work. It is […]

   

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  Ford Focus XR5 2.5 Turbo

  16 March 2006 / 20 comments

  This is the hottest Ford Focus hatchback soon to hit the streets in April 2006. The Ford Focus XR5 Turbo. It’s powered by a 2.5 litre Duratec 20-valve 5-cylinder engine. I highly suspect this powertrain […]

   

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  The end of the BMW E-code

  15 March 2006 / 17 comments

  When you’re at a table with a few car enthusiasts, you’d hear them flinging around words like W211, E36, GC8, E90, EK, EG, SV4, H22A and 4G93 as if it were some alien language code. […]

   

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  Nissan’s Collision Avoidance System

  15 March 2006 / 7 comments

  Nissan is developing a safety feature for it’s cars to help avoid colliding with the vehicle in front in the case of a possible sudden brake situation. In Nissan’s accelerator pedal safety system, a combination […]

   

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  Bruce Crower’s 6 stroke Crower cycle engine

  14 March 2006 / 37 comments

  As we all know, the combustion engine does not really convert the potential energy in fuel to kinetic energy to move the car efficiently. We lose alot of that power – roughly 76% – in […]

   

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  2006 Honda Civic 1.8 SOHC i-VTEC engine

  13 March 2006 / 53 comments

  This is for those who appreciate the technology that goes into a powertrain. How does the new 1.8 litre SOHC i-VTEC engine in the new 2006 Honda Civic achieve good fuel mileage (Honda claims 1.5 […]

   

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  Toyota and Subaru to co-develop hybrid engine

  13 March 2006 / 2 comments

  Since Toyota’s 8.7% stake purchase in Fuji Heavy Industries which makes Subaru cars, there has been on-going talks on the usage of Toyota’s hybrid engines in Subaru cars. But this proved to be difficult due […]

   

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  Volkswagen Golf Singing in the Rain

  11 March 2006 / 21 comments

  The character Gene Kelly from Singing in the Rain is recreated in this advertisement for the Volkswagen Golf. The background song is Frank Sinatra’s Singing in the rain. The video has some funky robot dance […]

   

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  Satria Replacement Model Spyshots with Interior

  10 March 2006 / 71 comments

  Here are the latest spy images for the Proton Satria Replacement Model or Proton SRM24 which have been in testing phases for quite some time already. These photos were taken while the Proton SRM was […]

   

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  2006 Honda Civic FD in Malaysia – in depth

  9 March 2006 / 71 comments

  The 2006 Honda Civic was launched today at the KL Convention Center. This would be the 8th edition of the Honda Civic here in Malaysia since it’s introduction here back in 1977. The Civic started […]

   

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