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  My Proton Makeover – more in-progress pix of the Iswara

  17 February 2012 / 34 comments

  More photos have come about of the 1996 Iswara Aeroback that’s currently being rebuilt in the R3 facility. You’ll know the car, belonging to Norzamzarini Mohd Bajuri from Muar, Johor, as the third vehicle to […]

   

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  Accord owner wins Honda Insight in after-sales campaign

  17 February 2012 / 5 comments

  Cham Tack Keong from Johor Bahru recently drove home a brand new Honda Insight. The hybrid car was the grand prize of the lucky draw in Honda’s After-Sales Promotion Campaign, which was announced in June […]

   

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  E-Tukar Hakmilik Sementara could be made compulsory for used car dealers, says Transport Minister

  17 February 2012 / 27 comments

  What happens when the car you sold to the used car dealer gets into trouble or collects summonses? It’s their responsibility since you have already sold the car, right? Maybe not. Usually, the car you’ve […]

   

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  Owners learn the fun way at Porsche Circuit Training

  16 February 2012 / 7 comments

  Cars are getting better and better, and most of us just scrape the surface when it comes to extracting the dynamic talents of our rides. Driving too hard on public roads is dangerous, so the […]

   

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  Chevrolet Colorado spotted being unloaded in Port Klang!

  16 February 2012 / 18 comments

  Well, it’s definitely turning out to be an eventful week, this, with the next new card to be opened being the Chevrolet Colorado. Seems the pickup truck has arrived in town, fresh off the boat, […]

   

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  Renault Clio RS 200 Cup – Angel & Demon edition, RM199k

  16 February 2012 / 92 comments

  TC Euro Cars, guardian of the Renault brand in Malaysia, gave the new Clio RS a media preview at Bangsar Shopping Centre this afternoon. The Clio Renault Sport 200 Cup, to give it its full […]

   

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  Nasim donates Peugeot 207 SV to charitable organisation

  16 February 2012 / 26 comments

  Nasim has donated a Peugeot 207 SV to Grace Community Services, which runs orphanages and provides food banks to the poor. The donation is part of Nasim’s collaboration with The Star for the publication’s Bid […]

   

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  Mazda CX-5 arriving soon in Malaysia? The ads hint at it!

  15 February 2012 / 56 comments

  Ah, you’ve just got to love selling through the Internet – you sometimes get to know what’s coming long before the official channels open up. Take the Mazda CX-5, for example, which we wrote about […]

   

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  Toyota ‘rethink the way you drive’ teaser pops up online – PRIUS c and New PRIUS to be launched soon?

  14 February 2012 / 36 comments

  It looks like there’s something stirring in the air on the Toyota front, with a teaser for another impending arrival cropping up on the UMW Toyota website. A graphic titled ‘Rethink the way you drive’ […]

   

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  Peugeot 408 spotted in Malacca with minimal disguise

  13 February 2012 / 64 comments

  Known internally in Nasim as Project T73, locally-assembled versions of the Peugeot 408 sedan have been spotted being tested on Malaysian roads for over half a year so far, and these tradeplate-bearing locally-assembled units have […]

   

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  Renault Megane RS 250 beats its previous Sepang lap record by five seconds!

  13 February 2012 / 19 comments

  The Renault Megane RS 250 recently revisited Sepang and in the process, rewrote its personal best laptime of the F1 track in the hands of Denis Lian. If you remember, Denis, a brand manager at […]

   

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  My Proton Makeover – 1996 Iswara AB work in progress

  13 February 2012 / 43 comments

  You read earlier about car number four in the My Proton Makeover programme entering the garage for the rework, and in case you’ve been wondering about the third one, here’s news about the 1996 Iswara […]

   

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  Proton Makeover – a Satria GTI gets redone

  13 February 2012 / 59 comments

  Proton has announced the fourth My Proton Makeover programme recipient, and Salina Hisham’s Satria GTI is next up to bat in the rework run. The Science Officer from Hospital Sultanah Aminah, Johor Bahru had submitted […]

   

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  Hyundai Elantra MD – four spec levels available at launch?

  13 February 2012 / 178 comments

  Ads for the new Hyundai Elantra have started cropping up all over the city and the virtual world (even on this blog), but we’ve had no official word on the launch date, specs and pricing […]

   

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  Ducati Diavel AMG – flagship devil rolls in at RM194k

  13 February 2012 / 51 comments

  Five months after making its first public showing at Frankfurt, the Ducati Diavel AMG has oficially arrived in Malaysia. A preview unit has been specially flown in and is now on display at the Ducati […]

   

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