Author: Jonathan James Tan

Non-national carmakers sold 2.3% fewer cars in 2024 (311,058 units) than they did in 2023 (318,521 units), and an analyst infers that Chinese car brands are giving established non-national makes a serious challenge in Malaysia, […]

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Prasarana is targeting a Mean Kilometres Between Failure (MKBF) of one million for its trains by 2026’s second quarter, Bernama reports. That means an average of one disruption for every million kilometres the train travels. […]

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If you’re thinking of buying a new battery-electric vehicle (BEV), you’d do well to check out RHB Green Financing, which is offering rates as low as 0.94% per annum + Standardised Base Rate Islamic (SBRI), or a fixed-rate equivalent of 2.1% per annum. Its latest campaign, which runs January 1 […]

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Want to see what the recently-launched 2025 Honda Civic FE facelift looks like in the new Canyon River Blue Metallic exterior colour? Here you go. The entrance of this blue (also found on the CR-V) […]

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India’s a huge market for Hyundai – so much so that it gets many localised models – but this is still a surprise, even though over 1.1 million Cretas have been sold there to date. […]

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The Ford Raptor Rev event has been postponed to February 22-23 from the original January 11-12 “due to overwhelming response”. “We sincerely regret for any inconvenience caused by the rescheduling of our event and greatly […]

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The Chery Group sold a record 2,603,916 vehicles worldwide in 2024 (+38.4% vs 2023), including a whopping 1,144,588 units outside China (+21.4% vs 2023). This means it’s beaten Geely in overall sales by 427,349 units […]

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