Malaysian automotive heavyweight Perodua may have enjoyed market leadership for a good 16 years now, but perhaps now more than ever, there’s a fire under its ass to ensure that its lead isn’t compromised. I don’t believe I have to go into detail here, but for the uninitiated, I’m talking about the challenges that fellow […]
It was an exciting weekend during the third installment of the 2020 Toyota Gazoo Racing Festival, with the third round taking place in Batu Kawan, Penang. The three Vios Challenge races, between the professional Super Sporting class, the amateur Sporting class, and the celebrity-racing Promotional class, saw the fifteen thousand-strong crowd at the edge of […]
Japanese automotive juggernaut Toyota’s mobility-forward arm, Toyota Mobility Foundation, have today launched a next-generation urban development & traffic management global challenge today in Kuala Lumpur, with our capital city acting as the global testbed for the initiative. Named ‘City Architecture for Tomorrow Challenge’ (or CATCH), the challenge is to use data provided by partnering agencies, […]
In an event held in the city centre today, BMW Group Malaysia announced their ‘2019 Report Card’ to detail how the Group performed in what’s unilaterally regarded as a ‘challenging year’ in a ‘challenging market.’ Despite the headwinds, BMW Group Malaysia posted some pretty healthy numbers, driven by the 32 model variants introduced in 2019 […]
Despite challenging conditions in 2019, Mercedes-Benz Malaysia has managed to hold onto its lead in the premium segment, doing so against bearish conditions that have affected the premium segment most of all. With 1.8% marketshare last year, the company is confident that 2019 has set the tone for the decade to come, even though they […]
Resurgent luxury marque Volvo has had a splendid year in our market in 2019, as announced at a media event today. Speaking on behalf of the managing director of Volvo Car Malaysia (who was called away due to a personal emergency), marketing & PR director Mr. Akhtar Sulaiman revealed just how well Volvo performed in […]
At their Chinese New Year luncheon event, Perodua was once again posed the question of the eagerly-awaited Perodua Myvi GT, a hotter variant of the effervescent hatchback that was first mooted as a concept at the KL International Motorshow back in 2018. We first asked about the Myvi GT during Perodua’s 1H 2019 review event […]
At their Chinese new year luncheon (cum year-in-review event), Malaysian automotive heavyweight Perodua made a surprise ‘confirmation’ that it will seek to introduce the heavily-rumoured ‘D55L’ compact SUV in the second-half of this year. We like to call the D55L model the ‘Kembara’ on the basis that, like the original, the D55L will be a […]
At their year-in-review event held in the capital, Malaysian automotive heavyweight Perodua has announced its ‘report card’ for the last year, with the company growing in all major aspects over the year before. The company exceeded its targets for 2019, with a total of 240,341 cars sold last year. This was fuelled by the introduction […]
At a luncheon event with the media today, CEO of Proton Cars Dr. Li Chunrong said that while 2019 has been an excellent year for the national flagbearer, the company has no intentions of slowing down. Remarking that the company has successfully sold in excess of 100,000 cars in 2019 (an increase of over 55% […]