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  Audi Q7 CKD starts production in Pekan – first CKD Audi in Malaysia and Southeast Asia, RM469k-489k est

  24 April 2025 / 8 comments

  Production of the second-gen, second-facelift Audi Q7 has begun at DRB-Hicom’s Pekan, Pahang plant at a rate of three units a day (five-day work week), ahead of its launch next month. The SUV, which has […]

   

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  Mercedes-Benz Vision V concept revealed at Shanghai 2025, previews upcoming VLE and VLS luxury EV vans

  23 April 2025 / 4 comments

  What in the blazes? This is the Mercedes-Benz Vision V concept, a crystal ball for the brand’s future portfolio of VAN.EA (Van Electric Architecture)-based luxury EV vans that will include the new VLE and VLS. […]

   

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  No physical road tax for individual private vehicles from Apr 18 to May 18 due to supplier printing issues?

  23 April 2025 / 11 comments

  ARroadtax.my has posted on Facebook what appears to be an April 17 memo from the road transport department‘s (JPJ) vehicle licencing director. It seems the physical road tax supplier’s hologram printer is down (which could […]

   

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  Eyeing a Porsche Taycan? Here’s why it’s better to buy an official unit rather than a recon or grey import car

  23 April 2025 / 5 comments

  In the realm of luxury performance electric vehicles (EV), the Porsche Taycan is the stuff of dreams. Available officially in Malaysia in no fewer than 11 versions, including the versatile Cross Turismo bodystyle and with […]

   

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  Toyota bZ7 EV sedan unveiled at Shanghai 2025 – GAC-Toyota JV, BYD motor and battery expected

  23 April 2025 / 4 comments

  Debuting at Auto Shanghai 2025 is the production-ready Toyota bZ7, an over-five-metre-long EV sedan that’s been developed by Guangzhou Automobile Group Co Ltd (GAC), Guangzhou Toyota Motor Co Ltd (GAC-Toyota) and Intelligent ElectroMobility R&D Center […]

   

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  Over 6k Thai vehicles entered Kelantan during Raya

  23 April 2025 / 1 comment

  A total of 6,172 vehicles entered Malaysia from Thailand through three main border checkpoints in Kelantan during Hari Raya Aidilfitri, from March 24 to April 8, and 5,506 exited during the same period, Bernama reports. […]

   

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  LG pulls out of RM37bil Indonesia EV battery project

  22 April 2025 / 15 comments

  LG Energy Solution (LGES) has pulled out from a Rp142 trillion (RM36.9 billion) deal it signed with the Indonesian government in 2020 – called Indonesia Grand Package – to develop EV battery manufacturing in the […]

   

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  Firefly EV – RHD version confirmed for Singapore; Nio’s affordable sub-brand coming to Malaysia next?

  22 April 2025 / 6 comments

  Nio has announced that the right-hand drive (RHD) version of its Firefly EV will be ready by October, and that it’ll first be available in the UK and Southeast Asia, with a Singaporean distributorship expected […]

   

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  Toyota mulling moving RAV4 production to Kentucky

  22 April 2025 / 1 comment

  Toyota is considering producing the next-gen RAV4 (current-gen 2022 facelift pictured) in the US due to president Trump’s tariffs, after originally planning to export to the US from Canada and Japan, Reuters has reported, citing […]

   

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  CATL launches Naxtra – new sodium-ion battery brand

  22 April 2025 / 3 comments

  Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd (CATL) has launched a new brand for its sodium-ion batteries – Naxtra – as well as a second generation of its fast-charging electric vehicle (EV) battery, Reuters reports. The first […]

   

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  KDN proposes use of MyDigital ID to pay saman

  21 April 2025 / 4 comments

  The home affairs ministry (KDN) has proposed the use of MyDigital ID for traffic summons (saman) payments, with minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail telling Berita Harian that although the use of the app is […]

   

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  Over 35k accidents, 730 deaths on LPT1 since 2004

  21 April 2025 / 5 comments

  The East Coast Expressway Phase 1 (LPT1) has seen 35,551 accidents from its 2004 opening up to December 2024, including 730 fatalities, reports Bernama. “There are no locations on LPT1 categorised as blackspots, but there […]

   

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  Volvo to cut up to 800 jobs in the US over tariffs

  21 April 2025 / 0 comments

  The Volvo Group plans to let go as many as 800 workers at three US facilities over the next three months due to market uncertainty and demand concerns in the face of Donald Trump’s tariffs, […]

   

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  Malaysia ready for Pan-Asian Railway Network – Loke

  21 April 2025 / 8 comments

  Malaysia is ready to support the development of the Pan-Asian Railway Network (PARN), which will connect Kunming, China to Singapore via various routes through Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, Bernama reports. According to transport […]

   

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  A-A Putrajaya special number plates – eBid April 19-23

  19 April 2025 / 23 comments

  There’s a new special number plate series under Putrajaya – A-A, with numbers 1 to 9999 in between. Brings to mind Kuala Lumpur’s old W-A series, which was introduced in 2013 and discontinued in favour […]

   

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