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  Volkswagen Touareg 3.6 V6 FSI Facelift in Malaysia

  16 June 2007 / 17 comments

  Volkswagen’s facelifted Touareg, known as the Touareg 2 in markets like the US, is now available in Malaysia. With the new facelift, the new Touareg gets a few enhancements, like an upgrade from 3.2 litres […]

   

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  Good news for Proton-VW talks by end June?

  14 June 2007 / 70 comments

  Second Finance Minister Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop said if the second round of the most recent attempt at negotiating the Proton-Volkswagen partnership deal is successful, we will be able to hear some positive news […]

   

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  Honda City Modulo Special Edition

  14 June 2007 / 31 comments

  A new special edition Honda City VTEC is now available in Honda showrooms – the Honda City Modulo Special Edition. Only 120 units of this special edition will be made available. It’s basically a Honda […]

   

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  Proton-VW Partnership talks to continue

  13 June 2007 / 42 comments

  It seems that the talks between Khazanah Nasional and Volkswagen officials in New York last week on a Proton-Volkswagen partnership ended in a positive tone, and a follow-up meeting has been scheduled to be held […]

   

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  Honda City i-DSI gets 26.2km per liter in fuel economy challenge

  11 June 2007 / 54 comments

  Honda Malaysia Sdn Bhd demonstrated the fuel efficiency of their Honda City i-DSI last weekend, in an event they called the F.E.A.T., or the Fuel Efficiency Automobile Test. And a feat it was, because the […]

   

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  SMART Tunnel Toll – RM2

  11 June 2007 / 42 comments

  I’ve just received an SMS alert from The Star reporting that Works Minister Datuk Seri Samy Vellu has announced that the SMART Tunnel toll rate will be set at RM2 and will be effective from […]

   

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  The Edge says yes, Volkswagen says no!

  7 June 2007 / 55 comments

  The Proton Saga continues! The Edge carried a report today that Volkswagen and Proton will be forming a new joint venture company to carry out joint model development and marketing, with Volkswagen holding 51% as […]

   

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  Ssangyong Actyon SUT pick-up truck in Malaysia

  7 June 2007 / 81 comments

  We suddenly have another player in the pick-up truck game – the Ssangyong Actyon SUT. While most of you may have seen the Actyon around the internet in SUV form, there is also a ladder […]

   

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  W221 Mercedes-Benz S300L in Malaysia

  7 June 2007 / 29 comments

  DaimlerChrysler Malaysia launched the latest variant of it’s W221 S-Class on Wednesday – the Mercedes Benz S300L, with the L denoting a long wheelbase model. The name S-Class is derived from the German word Sonderklasse, […]

   

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  Volkswagen and Khazanah to meet again this week?

  6 June 2007 / 49 comments

  Singapore’s The Business Times reported that Volkswagen officials, Khazanah Nasional officials as well as officials from the Prime Minister’s department will be meeting in New York for Proton-Volkswagen tie-up talks this week. An agreement is […]

   

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  CKD Suzuki Swift to be roughly 30% cheaper?

  5 June 2007 / 59 comments

  The first locally assembled 1.5 litre Suzuki Swift rolled off DRB-HICOM’s fully robotic welding assembly line in Pekan last Saturday. The robotic welding line costs RM20 million and is the first non-national local assembly plant […]

   

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  Volkswagen says Proton talks to resume soon

  4 June 2007 / 70 comments

  So the PM has said one thing and Khazanah Nasional has said another. The best way to know if the Volkswagen talks are on or not is ask Volkswagen right? It appears that Volkswagen is […]

   

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  Volkswagen CrossPolo – 1.6 with 6 airbags!

  4 June 2007 / 23 comments

  Volkswagen Malaysia has just launched it’s new CrossPolo B-segment vehicle. The CrossPolo, and it’s less cross sibling the Polo are slotted between the Volkswagen Fox and the larger Volkswagen Golf. There is even a GTI […]

   

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  Khazanah says talks with Volkswagen still on

  1 June 2007 / 69 comments

  Contradictory to what the Prime Minister mentioned yesterday, Khazanah Nasional who owns about 43% of Proton and spearheads the talks between Proton and a potential stakeholding partner has said that it is still in talks […]

   

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  Proton in the red for financial year 2006

  31 May 2007 / 88 comments

  Proton has posted it’s fourth straight quarterly loss amounting to RM11.8 million (pre-tax) for the first three months of 2007, compared to a profit of RM129.9 million ringgit during the first three months of 2006. […]

   

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