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  2021 February week one fuel price – diesel goes down

  29 January 2021 / 7 comments

  With Friday comes the usual weekly fuel update announcement. Some pleasant news for motorists after the recent upward trend in fuel prices, because there is no change in the price of petrol in the coming […]

   

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  MCO 2.0: Transport ministry announces exemption for road tax and driving licence renewal until March 31

  29 January 2021 / 10 comments

  With the range of counter services at road transport department (JPJ) offices having been scaled down in line with the second movement control order (MCO), the transport ministry has again exempted the requirement to renew […]

   

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  2021 Toyota Fortuner facelift and Innova facelift to be launched online via Facebook on February 2 at 8.30pm

  29 January 2021 / 34 comments

  UMW Toyota Motor (UMWT) has announced that it will be officially launching the 2021 Toyota Fortuner facelift and 2021 Innova facelift on February 2, doing so online via Facebook or YouTube channel platforms. The live […]

   

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  Vehicle sales performance in Malaysia, 2020 vs 2019 – all the numbers, and how the brands fared last year

  27 January 2021 / 40 comments

  The 2020 total industry volume (TIV) forecast of 607,000 units made by the Malaysia Automotive Association (MAA) last January may have sounded cautious, offering only modest growth from the 604,287 units achieved in 2019, but […]

   

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  Full lane closures at KL-Seremban Highway near South City Plaza for MRT works, contra flow by stages

  27 January 2021 / 1 comment

  Click to enlarge Turnkey contractor of the MRT Putrajaya Line, MMC-Gamuda, has announced the continuation of full lane closures and activation of contra flow by stages at the KL-Seremban Highway. The stretch in question is […]

   

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  MAA forecasts 8% rise in TIV for 2021 – 570,000 units

  27 January 2021 / 11 comments

  The Malaysian Automotive Association (MAA) says it is optimistic that the local automotive market will rebound in 2021, and has confidently forecast that the total industry volume (TIV) will grow by nearly 8% from 2020, […]

   

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  Vehicle sales performance in Malaysia for 2020: better than expected despite Covid-19, 12.4% down fr 2019

  26 January 2021 / 24 comments

  The Malaysian Automotive Association (MAA) has released the overall sales and production figures for 2020, showing a total industry volume (TIV) of 529,434 vehicles last year. Compared to the 604,281-unit TIV of 2019, this represented […]

   

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  Hyundai CKD production set to increase despite new Indonesian plant – locally-assembled SUVs in 2022

  26 January 2021 / 10 comments

  You’d think that a new plant in Indonesia would severely affect the production of locally-assembled cars here, wouldn’t you? But Hyundai is set to do things differently, despite also planning to move its regional headquarters […]

   

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  December 2020 Malaysian vehicle sales up by 21.8%

  26 January 2021 / 6 comments

  The Malaysian Automotive Association (MAA) has released vehicle sales date for the month of December 2020, and strong numbers were expectedly recorded in a final flurry in anticipation of the sales tax (SST) exemption ending […]

   

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  MCO 2.0: Spouses kept apart by travel ban will be allowed to perform interstate travel from January 27

  26 January 2021 / 6 comments

  The government has decided to relax the rules of interstate travel for spouses who have been kept apart during the movement control order (MCO) after receiving appeals from the public. In a press briefing today, […]

   

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  Malaysia Speed Festival (MSF) – 2021 events, updates

  25 January 2021 / 0 comments

  The year 2020 was one of previously unknown hardship and ordeals, with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic felt not just in Malaysia but around the globe. It was a year in which Malaysia Speed […]

   

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  Proton S50 – new Preve/Waja replacement rendered

  22 January 2021 / 64 comments

  During the launch of the Proton Saga facelift in August 2019, the national carmaker revealed its product launch strategy, which would see one new model be introduced every year. Since then, we’ve already welcomed the […]

   

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  2021 January week four fuel price – all up yet again

  22 January 2021 / 16 comments

  Another Friday, which means it’s time for the weekly fuel update. Fuel prices are up again across the board, but diesel users will be impacted more by this week’s price revision. The ministry of finance […]

   

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  MCO 2.0: Toyota Gazoo Racing Festival Season 4 opener postponed, replacement date yet to be decided

  22 January 2021 / 3 comments

  The extension of the second nationwide (except Sarawak) movement control order has claimed a victim in the motorsports scene. Distributor UMW Toyota Motor has announced that it will postpone Round 1 of the Toyota Gazoo […]

   

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  Porsche Taycan – entry-level RWD variant reaching Malaysia in Q2, EV from RM585k with SST exemption

  22 January 2021 / 10 comments

  Earlier this week, we read about Porsche rolling out an entry-level Taycan variant in the US and Europe; the rear-wheel drive version joining existing AWD variants Taycan 4S, Taycan Turbo and the range-topping Taycan Turbo […]

   

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