UMW Toyota Motor (UMWT) announced yesterday that it sold 7,345 units of Toyota and Lexus vehicles in April 2024, with Toyota-badged models contributing 7,213 units, while the imported-from-Japan only Lexus contributed 132 units. Year-to-date, the company sold 30,789 units in the first four months. The company didn’t share its sales numbers for March 2024, but figures compiled by RHB Investment Bank put it at 9,688 units. That’s a that month-on-month, UMWT’s sales had dropped by 25 percent, but t

Toyota Australia has revealed a prototype Toyota HiAce featuring a hydrogen-powered internal combustion engine (HICEV), marking yet another step in the company's global multi-pathway decarbonisation strategy. The hydrogen HiAce will undergo a customer pilot program in the country commencing this month. Toyota's approach to decarbonization encompasses various pathways, including investments in carbon-neutral fuels, hybrid-electric, plug-in hybrid-electric, battery-electric, and fuel-cell electric

Think vans and immediately an image of the Toyota Hiace will pop into your mind. It’s just synonymous. With the world shifting towards electrification, it was only a matter of time before the HiAce received the same treatment and Toyota has now unveiled that under the Global HiAce BEV concept at the Japan Mobility Show. Housed under van specialist subsidiary Toyota Auto Body together with all the other vans, the Global HiAce BEV is based on the global H300-series HiAce sold outside of Japan but

We’re now in the third week of 2023 and while the market is saturated with brand-new cars, there are some of these of the new cars are actually rather old underneath the pretty new body. Here, we will take a look at some 10-year-old new cars you can still buy today. 2023 Proton Saga The current-generation Proton Saga, codenamed P2-13A, has been around since 2016. Proton gave its A-segment sedan its latest update last year, whereby the model gained new features like keyless entry and engine push

It appears that the electrified section of the light commercial van segment here might be doubling in size soon if these recent photos are anything to go by. The Maxus eDeliver 3 was spotted recently outside Averis Tower in the Bangsar South area sporting a pair of trade plates, possibly indicating that a launch is imminent. If all the stars and charging stations align, the eDeliver 3 should be launched by the year end and will join the only other electric light commercial van, the CAM / DFSK EC

Generally, most cars don’t last a lifetime and most people would generally own a car for a few years before replacing it. Still, there are some cars which are still running years or even decades after they were bought new. In fact, for this week’s Top Rank, we wanted to focus on the cars that are generally seen as immortal. Some of them might be considered indestructible and can last a lifetime no matter what is thrown in their way. You could even think of them as the automotive equivalent of a