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  Look before you lock – don’t let another child fall victim to heatstroke in the car

  14 November 2014 / 20 comments

  A father of a 15 month old boy in the US was charged with negligent homicide recently. The victim was his son. He was supposed to take him to day care. But after putting him […]

   

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  GALLERY: Perodua Kancil to Perodua Axia, Malaysia’s most affordable car through the ages

  30 September 2014 / 87 comments

  At the Perodua headquarters in Rawang, we spotted two pristine examples of the Perodua Kancil. The red model is the first car to roll off the company’s assembly line, while the newer blue car is the […]

   

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  Toyo NanoEnergy 3 sampled – the case for eco tyres

  25 September 2014 / 30 comments

  The longer I own it, the more I realise that the Honda CR-Z fits my needs perfectly. Cars with a good ol’ manual gearbox are hard enough to find in Malaysia, so a stick shift […]

   

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  2014 Entry-level hatchback round-up: Perodua Axia, Proton GSC Compact Car and Great Wall M4

  14 August 2014 / 112 comments

  This year is shaping up a lot to be like the year 2005. If you recall, it was then that both Proton and Perodua decided to launch small hatchbacks, and despite the two cars not […]

   

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  Proton Design Competition 2014 – a behind-the-scenes look at how a Proton vehicle is designed, part two

  8 August 2014 / 104 comments

  Last week, we had a first look at how a Proton is designed – from sketches and renderings, to modelling the car in 3D, to then having a photorealistic virtual representation of the car spinning around […]

   

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  Proton Design Competition 2014 – we take a behind-the-scenes look at how a Proton is designed

  31 July 2014 / 132 comments

  Have you ever wondered what it’s like to design a car from the ground up? Well, today’s your lucky day, because paultan.org was recently granted exclusive access to the innards of Proton’s design studio to provide […]

   

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  VIDEO: BMW’s The Epic Driftmob video features the BMW M235i smoking and sliding in Cape Town

  30 July 2014 / 10 comments

  As revealed in our exclusive behind the scenes preview, BMW has been busy cooking up a new product feature video showcasing the feisty BMW M235i – no M2 Coupe here, despite what some may have […]

   

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  Proton Design Competition 2014: We have a chat with Azlan Othman, Proton’s head of design

  16 July 2014 / 126 comments

  Designers have to wear a lot of hats these days. In addition to cooperating with each other on the design of a car, they also have to work with engineers, bean counters, the higher-ups and […]

   

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  EXCLUSIVE: The making of BMW 2 Series Driftmob – a behind the scenes preview from Cape Town

  11 July 2014 / 11 comments

  It wouldn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out why a number of carmakers, including BMW and its closest rivals, have started to introduce models to cater to every possible niche, and then some. Take […]

   

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  Euro 5 diesel to be sold in selected locations in Johor

  26 June 2014 / 124 comments

  Some groundbreaking news on the diesel front – Euro 5-grade diesel will be available in Malaysia in the coming few weeks. Don’t get too excited just yet, because it will only be in selected parts […]

   

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  Proton R3 Motorsport Driving Experience – getting to grips with the new driver training programme

  7 June 2014 / 62 comments

  As an avid fan of the Gran Turismo video game series, I have gone through countless of the famous licence tests that are a necessity to advance through the games’ career modes. Those tests help you drive better virtually, but the […]

   

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  Dual-clutch transmissions: dry clutch on the way out?

  17 March 2014 / 89 comments

  Ah, the dual-clutch transmission. There was once a time where upon hearing that a car was to be equipped with one, motorheads would speculate on whether it would deliver incredibly quick shift times made famous […]

   

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  Honda Civic Hybrid road trip: mystery machine

  14 March 2014 / 16 comments

  Well, the idea for this road trip was solely mine and it started out quite innocently, I assure you. Here’s the concept: To look not for food but something different, something that isn’t very ordinary. […]

   

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  A first taste of Sepang – getting a ride in the Proton R3 Suprima S Malaysian Super Series Touring Car

  11 March 2014 / 104 comments

  Being a motor journalist has a habit of taking your preconceptions of what a job should entail and setting them on fire. Having started my stint at paultan.org less than a month ago, I was all […]

   

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  NAP 2014 – so where do we go from here?

  21 January 2014 / 145 comments

  The National Automotive Policy (NAP 2014) that was announced yesterday evening is a hot topic and the subject of much debate amongst industry players and consumers. Its aims include making Malaysia an Energy-Efficient Vehicle (EEV) […]

   

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