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  Geely design chief Peter Horbury on creating an image for the rising brand, and his vision for Proton Design

  4 May 2018 / 50 comments

  Geely is not just another Chinese car carmaker. Taking a walk around the vast halls of the recent 2018 Beijing Auto Show would make that clear for this writer. There are so many homegrown brands […]

  
  

   

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  Access by BMW car subscription service launched in the US – two tiers, unlimited swaps, from $2k monthly

  6 April 2018 / 21 comments

  To drive a car, you must buy one. That’s the convention that we’re used to, but there’s a new trend in the West – car subscription. Just like how you subscribe to Spotify and listen […]

  
  

   

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  Subaru Core Technologies – forging its own path

  22 March 2018 / 26 comments

  Subaru is one of the world’s most well-known car brands and is famous for its legendary exploits in the gruelling race series that is the World Rally Championships. Over the years, the learnings and technical […]

  
  

   

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  Proton Persona – one man’s tale of love at first sight

  8 March 2018 / 138 comments

  For many people, a car is seen largely as a means of transportation, something to serve mobility needs and nothing more. For some though, a car represents something deeper and more personal. To these folk, […]

  
  

   

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  Have cars in Malaysia become cheaper over the last few years? We dissect the ‘Harga Kereta Turun’ report

  5 February 2018 / 146 comments

  A newspaper cover story jumped out at us yesterday, and it was BH Ahad‘s ‘Harga kereta turun’ headline. The eye-catching headline was supported by visuals of local, Japanese and European cars, purported examples of models […]

  
  

   

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  Audi Ice Driving Experience Finland with the S4 Avant – learning to drive in the winter with the aid of quattro

  31 January 2018 / 0 comments

  We were told by Josef ‘Sepp’ Haider at the beginning that we would become pretty proficient at ice driving within just three days, which sounded like a pretty ambitious thing to say. How would it […]

  
  

   

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  An open letter to all plug-in hybrid users – public EV charging bays aren’t parking slots, or personal spaces

  29 January 2018 / 93 comments

  Dear plug-in hybrid user, We think it’s time we had a talk about etiquette and common sense, seeing as the landscape has altered with regards to charging stations and how they are perceived and used, […]

  
  

   

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  The paultan.org 2017 Top Five cars list – the writers each pick five that impressed them the most this year

  31 December 2017 / 39 comments

  It’s the last day of the year, and so we come to the signature final post to sign off 2017. The sixth edition of the paultan.org Top Five list continues on that seen in the […]

  
  

   

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  The paultan.org 2017 Top Five bikes – best of the best

  31 December 2017 / 11 comments

  Another year gone by in a flash, and it is time again for me to select the top five best motorcycles I encountered during 2017. During the course of the year, I was given the […]

  
  

   

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  Locally-developed autonomous car by Reka Studios – the journey from Cambridge and Google to Melaka

  6 December 2017 / 62 comments

  Here’s something rather interesting, and unexpected from a bunch of local lads. Reka Studios is a small Malaysian outfit dabbling in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), and the company is currently in the early […]

  
  

   

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