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  AMH also opposes B10 biodiesel implementation – significant costs, shorter service intervals claimed

  8 August 2018 / 16 comments

  Yesterday, we wrote that the implementation of B10 biodiesel fuel, expected to commence next year, has received a bit of flak from the Pan-Malaysia Lorry Owners’ Association 1987 (PMLOA). Now, the Association of Malaysian Hauliers […]

  
  

   

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  Touch ‘n Go RFID public pilot begins Sept 3, launch in Jan 2019, SmartTAG sales discontinued immediately

  8 August 2018 / 74 comments

  Finally, some news on Malaysia’s radio-frequency identification (RFID) system for paying toll fares. Originally slated to be implemented in January this year, the system will finally be trialled in a public pilot programme on September […]

  
  

   

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  Fatal Uber self-driving crash would have been avoided had Volvo XC90’s safety systems been active – IIHS

  8 August 2018 / 12 comments

  The Insurance Institute of Highway Safety (IIHS) in the United States has lambasted Uber’s decision to turn off the built-in active safety systems on its Volvo XC90 autonomous driving prototype, which was involved in a […]

  
  

   

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  Malaysian lorry association opposed to B10 biodiesel

  7 August 2018 / 11 comments

  The implementation of B10 biodiesel in Malaysia is kicking around again two years after it was put on the backburner, but it is still receiving flak more than five years after it was first mooted. […]

  
  

   

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  Geely SX11 B-segment SUV – first official photos

  7 August 2018 / 24 comments

  Geely has released photos of its forthcoming B-segment crossover, without any accompanying text to go along with them. Codenamed SX11, the new model will go on sale in China in the fourth quarter of the […]

  
  

   

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  BMW X5 production in Thailand to increase to avoid Chinese tariffs on US-built vehicles – report

  6 August 2018 / 18 comments

  The trade war between China and the United States is well underway, and one of the consequences of that dispute is that the Middle Kingdom has raised tariffs on vehicles built in the US. In […]

  
  

   

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  Volkswagen achieves 3.12 million sales in 1H 2018

  3 August 2018 / 15 comments

  Volkswagen has announced its sales and financial results for the first half of the year, and the figures are staggering. Just in the first six months, Wolfsburg managed to surpass the three-million mark in sales […]

  
  

   

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  Proton Edar opens upgraded Chan Sow Lin 4S centre

  3 August 2018 / 22 comments

  Another day, another upgraded Proton showroom gets launched, as the national carmaker continues its wholesale refurbishment of its sales and service network. The Chan Sow Lin branch is actually the first one operated by the […]

  
  

   

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  Lexus LC Yellow Edition unveiled for European market

  3 August 2018 / 12 comments

  Yellow is the colour of summer, so it’s rather appropriate that Lexus has introduced a Yellow Edition for the LC coupe in Europe. The stunning luxury two-door is draped in Flare Yellow that’s already on […]

  
  

   

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  Perodua Alza to get updates before being replaced

  2 August 2018 / 73 comments

  With the introduction of the new Perodua Myvi in November, the Alza is now the oldest model in the national carmaker’s stable – having first debuted late in 2009, it predates the previous-generation Myvi. The […]

  
  

   

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