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  Mitsubishi 380 to be exported to Malaysia

  9 March 2006 / 25 comments

  A team of Proton engineers met with Mitsubishi officials at Mitsubishi Australia’s Adelaide assembly plant last week to discuss the possible import of the Mitsubishi 380 large sedan into Malaysia. This followed the shipment of […]

   

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  GM reduces Suzuki stakeholding from 20% to 3%

  8 March 2006 / 2 comments

  GM is going on a share dumping spree. It previously unloaded Subaru shares partly to Toyota and the rest onto the open market. It’s recent stake dump is in the form of Suzuki Motor Corp […]

   

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  Delphi offers help to Proton

  8 March 2006 / 8 comments

  The world’s 2nd largest automotive supplier* with sales of more than RM103.36 billion Delphi Corp has offered help to Proton in terms of widening it’s vehicle base and pushing for export markets. The Michigan-based company […]

   

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  Perodua Myvi export to Britain in July

  8 March 2006 / 35 comments

  Perodua will begin exporting it’s successful Perodua Myvi compact car to Britain from July onwards if everything goes well. The Perodua Myvi has already passed British quality checks and once it’s backlog of 45,000 pending […]

   

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  Toyota Yaris Hatchback Spyshots

  7 March 2006 / 32 comments

  Here are spyshots sent in by reader pycazu of the new small CBU (fully-imported) car Toyota is bringing in. They were taken on the Kesas highway. One glance and you can confirm that it is […]

   

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  Mugen Fit Spec D Prototype

  7 March 2006 / 15 comments

  I’m pretty impressed by the elegant not too loud bodykit that Mugen has put on the Honda Fit. It looks really great in it’s orange colour too, but what really makes the Mugen Fit Spec […]

   

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  Top Gear Winter Olympics

  7 March 2006 / 13 comments

  This is the much talked about Top Gear Winter Olympics episode, which features plenty of funky fusions of classic winter sports and automobiles. Really good cinematography by my standards anyway. It’s a whole episode, so […]

   

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  Geely Freedom Cruiser assembled in Malaysia

  7 March 2006 / 16 comments

  Zhejiang Geely Automotive Company is China’s biggest privately-owned automaker and specialises in making budget cars for first-time buyers like it’s 1.3 litre Geely Merrie which looks like a mutated Mercedes Benz and the 1.6 litre […]

   

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  Naza and KIA sign MoU for training centre

  7 March 2006 / 3 comments

  Naza Kia Academy Sdn Bhd and Kia Motors Corp signed a memorandum of understanding last Friday to make Naza’s RM 21 million academy one of Kia’s overseas training centres. The Naza Kia Academy will serve […]

   

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  Ram Rash Advertisement

  3 March 2006 / 9 comments

  Videos from Dodge’s new series of advertisements for the Dodge Ram. The campaign is known as “Ram Rash”. They really have NOTHING to do with the car it is advertising, but a whole lot different […]

   

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  MV Agusta stake sale complete

  3 March 2006 / 3 comments

  A statement has been given by Proton Berhad regarding the completion of the sale of it’s stake in MV Agusta SpA to Gevi SpA on 1st March 2006. As of 1st March 2006, Proton has […]

   

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  Chevrolet Aveo gets thumbs down from Euro NCAP

  3 March 2006 / 11 comments

  The latest round of Euro NCAP tests was not very favourable for the Chevrolet Aveo, a rebadged Daewoo Kalos. Among all the cars in the latest batch of tests which included the Kia Cerato, Peugeot […]

   

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  Mercedes Benz popular among youth

  3 March 2006 / 35 comments

  Hmm. According to Naza Group head honcho Tan Sri Nasimudin S.M. Amin, Mercedes Benz is now getting popular with youths as young as 22 years old, especially the C and A class (though the source […]

   

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  Students build hybrid sportscar powered by soybeans

  3 March 2006 / 32 comments

  A group of students from the West Philadelphia High School’s Academy for Automotive and Mechanical Engineering have come up with a prototype hybrid car that runs on soybean fuel. And it’s a sports car, which […]

   

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  BMW Auto Park

  2 March 2006 / 19 comments

  Nice video on BMW’s prototype Auto Park system. The narration is in German though, so I don’t really have any idea what they are going on about. But it’s pretty cool watching the 5-series station […]

   

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