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As much as pickup trucks have evolved, offering almost car-like comfort, refinement, convenience, there is no denying the fact that they are essentially workhorses that are designed and engineered to function in any surroundings. This explains why manufacturers never compromise ...

Volvo’s 180 km/h Limit Coming To Malaysia – The Problem With Speed

As some of you may know, a couple of months ago Volvo made some waves in the industry and among consumers by stating that they would eventually be capping the top speed of their vehicles to 180 km/h – globally. ...

Keep Your Child Safe IN The Car

Just as you think you've seen it all, “bolehland” springs up another surprise! This relates to the latest incident which happened a couple of days ago where a small boy was seen lying on the fast lane of a highway after ...

Not As Protectionist As You Think

It seems that whenever we write about a local-brand car being a favourable option, many Malaysians will immediately comment on our country's taxation system and the word “protectionism” will inevitably pop up. We can understand the perspective – after all, ...

Better EV Than Flying Car

Sri Lanka would be one of the last countries you'd expect to produce a full electric vehicle. But yet, here it is and to be honest, I feel like giving them a standing-jumping-award winning ovation for it. It has a ...

Red Fever: 5 Car Colours That Made Our Hearts Bleed

It’s a Valentine’s Day cliche, we know, but red cars are just so evocative, especially if said car is actually a sexy beast underneath that shimmering coat of paint. Some are just ‘offered’ with a red colour option, which is ...

Top 5 Cars With The Best Demand And Resale Value In Malaysia

Resale value is possibly the third most important aspect of buying a new car besides the original sale price and perhaps the overall maintenance costs of the vehicle. Having a car with strong resale value and good demand on the ...

Volvo And Geely Announce Possible Merger – New Group Could Be As Big As BMW

Geely Automobile (a subsidiary under the Zheijiang Geely Group) and Volvo Cars have announced plans for a merger to accelerate financial and technological synergies between both companies. Geely – having led the Chinese car market over the last three years ...

The Right Township For An Electric Car - Nada Bidara

Integrated communities are fast becoming popular among people who are trying to avoid the insanity of living within ever expanding city limits, because they offer the best balance of peace and convenience. In the past, moving away from a city ...

Access Denied: The Best Cars Forbidden To Malaysian Buyers

In spite of ourselves, Malaysia is home to a rather diverse automotive market than perhaps most people realise, but there are still cars that remain elusive to the motivated buyer. Looking at other regions and countries, it becomes clear that ...

Used Suzuki Jimny prices keep rising

Asking prices for used examples of popular baby off-roader now more than double what they cost brand-new Unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures, but none of us expected to see the day when asking prices for mainstream vehicles in the ...

Top 10 Funny Malaysian Car Nicknames

Having a nickname is like having a belly – Most of us have one. Be it one of the common ones like “Bob”, “Panjang”, and “Kecik”, or some unique ones, we all know someone with a nickname. According to the ...

The Low Down On Singaporean Scrap Cars

This whole Singaporean Scrap Car syndicate is quite fascinating, truth be told. There are so many moving parts and a lot of dodgy deals taking place just so that some people can drive illegal luxurious cars considered to be 'an ...

Waking Up From The SUV-Pocalypse

For most buyers, the de facto personal or family vehicle is now an SUV. Automakers are only so happy to perpetuate this trend as these vehicles are generally larger (or appear so) and allows them to charge a healthy premium over ...

What Does The Klang Valley Look Like During A Restricted Movement Order?

With the restricted movement order in effect from now until the 31st of March, many Malaysians are hopefully staying at home to avoid exposing themselves to COVID-19. Some of you may be curious as to what the roads look like ...

6 Month Moratorium: A Car Loan Holiday Or Delayed Haunting?

As of April 1st, Bank Negara Malaysia’s moratorium on all loans/financing to individuals and SMEs will take effect. The announcement was made on the 25th of March and since then all banks have stated their compliance with the move. With ...

Should Learning To Drive A Manual Be Mandatory?

If you’re someone who got their Malaysian driver’s license before mid-2014, you are part of a large pool of people who share a unique bond. If the title hasn’t clued you in to that yet, it is because all of ...

Preparing Your Hybrid Vehicle For Long-Term Storage

We recently published a piece on tips to prepare your car for long-term storage. Just to recap: Give it a good clean: Thoroughly cleaning your car ensures that dirt and grime does not precipitate and damage the paint surface – ...

DIY Essentials For Every Car Enthusiast

It may sound a little harsh, but Malaysians are not commonly known to do things themselves. Part of the reason is that we don’t have the tools on hand, and the other is that our manual labour jobs are woefully ...

All You Need To Know About Malaysia’s Drunk Driving Laws

With not one but two incidents (on Sunday morning alone) of drunk drivers crashing into MCO roadblocks – most Malaysians have been unanimous in their calls for stricter drunk driving laws in Malaysia to curb similar incidents from happening in the ...

Price Points: Our Favourite SUVs

We are now at a point in time when SUVs are becoming more popular than D-segment cars. Deny it all you want, but there is a reason that many mass-market manufacturers are phasing out their D-segment offerings in many markets ...

Toyota Yaris vs Volkswagen Polo vs Honda Jazz Hybrid

In the last decade, the crown for the best selling car in Malaysia went to a B-Segment hatchback vehicle which goes to prove Malaysia's affinity for these agile, economical, and versatile cars. It's not only in Malaysia that this phenomenon is taking place because ...

Car Sales Down By Nearly 30 PERCENT For First Quarter Of 2020

We all know very well that the ongoing MCO has been a major blow to a huge variety of sectors across our economy – with the exception of those producing sanitizing and protection equipment. But the data has finally come ...

This Kancil “Cabriolet” is the Coolest Car You’ll See Today, and it's on Sale

The Facebook Marketplace is a very interesting place. The things you will find listed sometimes is nothing short of mind blowing. With things ranging between gelas A&W terpakai to horses for sale, the marketplace never fails to surprise, and today ...

How COVID-19 Will Influence Future Car Interiors

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a tremendous effect on the automotive sector globally. With production and logistics operations almost at a standstill and the slowdown in demand amidst economic uncertainty – the current timeline is a pivotal point for the ...

Unsung Frontliners: MCO From Grab Drivers' Perspective

Being stuck at home during the MCO is hard on all of us for a whole bunch of different reasons. For one, we don’t get to drive our cars. There are tens of thousands of kilometres of the Malaysian road ...

Don’t Panic! - A Quick Guide To Warning Lights

People often equate any kind of warning light appearing on their car’s instrument cluster as a sign of trouble. Even a harmless symbol about the parking/ hand brake illuminating could cause a little scare for the unfamiliar. It’s understandable, because ...

Vinfast, ASEAN's BMW, Why Now So Shy Bro?

Back in 2018 when Vietnam's homegrown automaker Vinfast showed off a luxury sedan and SUV in their almost finished concept form, the world was pretty shocked (in a good way) with their from-scratch efforts – myself included. They had plenty ...

Where Are You Really Allowed To Drive During CMCO?

There’s a lot of conflicting statements by the government regarding what people are allowed to do during this Conditional Movement Control Order, or CMCO. The idea of the CMCO is that the relaxed restrictions generally allow people to get back ...

DCT, CVT, MT, AT, AMT – What Does It Mean?

If you’re not too familiar with the mechanical workings of cars, you wouldn’t be faulted for not understanding the different kinds of acronyms that pop up whenever you look at a brochure or read an article. While this is usually ...

The Idiot's Guide To Vehicle Tinting In Malaysia

For most of us, installing a sharp looking tint package is possibly the first thing we do after buying a new car or even second-hand car but it's also the first mistake many car owners make. This is because, for most ...

Pros and Cons of a 3-cylinder Engine

While four-and six-cylinder engines were the norm in cars for the longest time, the industry is once again showing signs of change. A case in point would be the rise of the three-cylinder engine. Also known as a straight-three engine, inline-triple, or inline-three, a 3-cylinder engine, ...

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