Under Bermaz Motor, Malaysia is the only Mazda distributor / national sales centre in Southeast Asia to close the Hiroshima-based automaker’s financial year ending March 2024 (FY2024) on a positive note. Although Mazda closed its FY2024 account books with its highest ever operating profit, surging 76 percent to reach 250.5 billion Yen (~RM 7.63 billion), most of the success was attributed to the USA, Europe, and China. Southeast Asia is a headache for Mazda. Casual readers of business news would

Need a car large enough to fit your bank accounts? Then our final article of our "SUVs coming to Malaysia in 2023 three-parter" centres around opulence, this time focusing on Luxury SUVs reaching our shores next year. And there's plenty to expect – from silent BEVs to frothy V12s. Hold on to your Amex Black, we're going in... BMW X7 facelift Revealed in April this year, the facelifted X7 continues Munich's recent trends of, uh, trendsetting designs with a grille-heavy face that's now closer to t

The 2023 Mazda CX-8 facelift has just made its debut in Japan and this new SUV is set to go on sale in the Land of the Rising Sun in December. Visually, the updated Mazda CX-8 now gets L motifs in the headlights and tail lights, as well as restyled front grille and bumper. Look closely and you’ll also spot a reprofiled rear bumper. Taking cues from the yet-to-be-launched CX-5 facelift, the top-spec CX-8 facelift adds body-coloured wheel arches and body cladding. Also Read: Pros and Cons: Mazda C

Kia Malaysia, now represented by Bermaz Auto Berhad, has plans to introduce the all-new 2022 Kia Sportage in Malaysia next year, as seen in a report by the Maybank Investment Bank (Maybank IB) shared to investors. Details are unclear at the moment, though the report did highlight that the 2022 Kia Sportage will have a combination local-assembled (CKD) and fully-imported (CBU) units. Plus, it also states that the introduction of the plug-in hybrid (PHEV) variant in Malaysia is in the midst of dis

The 2021 Hyundai Santa Fe has been spotted in Indonesia ahead of its launch, which is slated in April. As seen in the global debut, the 2021 Hyundai Santa Fe facelift features a grille that dominates the front-end, with headlights that merge smoothly with the grille and the split LED DRLs. The DRLs bear a resemblance to the Thor’s hammer headlights of a certain Swedish brand albeit vertical. At the rear, there’s a strip connecting the taillamps across the rear tailgate. The strip is not just for

After publishing spy shots of it on a car transporter and a 3D rendering of the 2021 Toyota Innova facelift, it seems that we have an actual date for the world debut of Toyota’s everlasting MPV. Just a few hours ago, Toyota Indonesia had uploaded a teaser post on their Facebook page. The post shows the front quarter silhouette of the new Innova (called the Kijang Innova in Indonesia) and the 2020 Fortuner. The caption of the post states that the new Innova facelift will make its debut on 15-Octo