Author: Danny Tan

You saw it at the Kuala Lumpur International Mobility Show (KLIMS) 2024 last month, now the Proton X50 Sport Edition has been officially launched. Limited to 1,000 units, the Sport Edition is priced at RM98,300 […]

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Grab and BYD have announced a regional partnership to expand access to up to 50,000 EVs to Grab’s driver-partners across Southeast Asia, while increasing the availability of green vehicles to Grab users. Through this partnership, […]

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Click to enlarge We’re looking at the 2025 BYD Atto 3 facelift, as submitted by the carmaker to China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. According to CarNewsChina, the submission is in a category of […]

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Malaysians are very excessive in our use of resources, and we’re not talking about the 16,720 tonnes of food being thrown away, daily, or the fact that we have the highest consumption of water per capita in the region. At this channel, we talk about fuel, where decades of subsidised […]

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Click to enlarge We ushered in a new year two weeks ago and there’s another new year around the corner! We’re of course talking about Chinese New Year, which happens late this month. Roar into […]

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JPJ has announced that BSE and QAB-L are the next number plate series to go up for bidding on its online auction platform, JPJ eBid. Selangor’s latest running number series is ‘BSE’, and it opened […]

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Seen plenty of the Jaecoo J7 on the road? Your suspicions are correct; the handsome SUV is selling well. Jaecoo Malaysia has reported sales of 7,041 units of the J7 in the five months after […]

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Android users, finally! The 2025 Proton X70 facelift is now available with Android Auto. Coupled with Apple CarPlay that was rolled out late last year for the refreshed SUV, AACP is now complete, and the […]

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Honda Malaysia (HM) sold 81,600 units in 2024, a result that it announced at today’s 2025 Honda Civic facelift launch. As Honda doesn’t sell commercial vehicles and pick-up trucks, all of those are passenger vehicles […]

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