Twelve months after flood related supply issues suppressed sales at the beginning of 2022, national carmaker Proton enjoyed its best start to a year since 2013. With 11,681 units (domestic and export) sold in January 2023, sales have grown by 162.3% year-on-year, resulting in the company comfortably retaining second place in the sales table. Proton's market share for the month is estimated to be 22.9%, an improvement of more than 12% year-on year and over 3% better than its market share figure o

The partnership between Perodua and Malaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA) to help local automotive parts vendors digitize their work processes is now yielding benefits in the form of improved efficiency, which in turn allows vendors to be more resilient in this volatile period of rising raw materials cost, said Perodua. Speaking at the launch of the MIDA-Perodua Digital Transformation Ecosystem Programme yesterday, President and CEO Dato’ Sri Zainal Abidin Ahmad said “The MIDA-Perodu

The new 2022 Proton Persona and Proton Iriz has been many updates, including 200 new parts, 32 quality improvements, and 6 performance improvements, but ADAS (Advanced Driving Assistance System) is not one of them. Proton’s B-segment duo still don’t have an answer to the Perodua Myvi’s Advanced Safety Assist (ASA), something that’s unavoidable given that it’s still running on the same ageing platform that was never meant to support ADAS hardware. Modifying it to accept ADAS hardware is possible

Okay, settle down, fans of the Proton Iriz (Irizians?). We’re not putting down the facelifted Iriz before we even have a chance to get behind the wheel of one and frankly, we could be seeing Proton's sole hatchback for a little bit longer. That said, the Iriz is in bad company. It was supposed to be a contender against the Perodua Myvi and though it received praises when it was launched in 2014, that whole excitement quickly died down. Things only became worse when the second “national” carmaker

Following last week’s unveiling of the Perodua Myvi S-Edition, it seems that the model isn’t an authorised, actual spec from Perodua - but rather an independent modification. You can read the statement in full below: Official Statement by Perodua President & Chief Executive Officer on the launch of the Perodua Myvi S-edition in Brunei On 4th July 2020, Perodua Brunei introduced its own version of the Myvi 1.3L G variant, dubbed the S-Edition, which include enhanced body kits which were sourced i

At the sidelines of the 2019 Tokyo Motor Show, Toyota gave us a sneak peak of its upcoming all-new Toyota Yaris. Curiously, the Yaris was not presented at the motor show’s venue, but at a nearby mall located next to Toyota’s MegaWeb brand experience centre. Like its archrival the Honda Jazz (sold as the Fit in Japan), the all-new Toyota Yaris will only go on sale in Japan in February 2020. As such, details on the vehicle’s specifications are still lacking and the display car was locked with a ‘D