Proton’s sales grew 40.9 percent in May 2023, rising in tandem with recovery of Total Industry Volume (total new car sales in the country), which Proton estimates to be 32.2 percent up, reaching 61,600 units. Including a small number of exports, Proton sold 13,268 units in May 2023. Cumulative sales for the first five months of 2023 now stand at 62,790 units (including exports), up 38.9 percent. Proton’s market share now stands at 20.9 percent. May also saw deliveries of the Proton X90 commencin

VW has announced that it will not develop a new generation VW Golf with a combustion engine after the current Mk8 generation model reaches the end of its lifecycle. The current Golf Mk8 will receive an update next year, after which it will stay on sale until 2030. The VW Golf Mk8, itself a heavily updated Mk7 Golf, was first launched in October 2019. However it only went on sale in Malaysia in 2022. While the Golf as we know it will end by this decade, the Golf nameplate will live on as an EV-on

It’s no secret that Perodua will be introducing the next-generation 2023 Perodua Axia real soon; sales advisors are undergoing training and trial production has already started. Now, the biggest question hanging on the minds of most Malaysians is, how will the next-gen Perodua Axia look like? After some sleuthing, we believe that Perodua did give us a preview of the next-gen Axia, way back at the 2018 Kuala Lumpur International Motor Show, in the form of the Perodua X Concept, and here’s why we

The all-new 2022 Honda HR-V has certainly been the talk of the whole country ever since it was launched in July. It has a waiting list that stretches around a year but as of September, close to 7,000 units have been registered in Malaysia. This was revealed at the local media drive of the all-new HR-V and the most popular variant is the turbocharged 1.5 V which accounts for 52% of the registration. The turbocharged VTEC engine (181 PS/240 Nm) is also offered in the 1.5 E which takes up 18% of th

When scary numbers precede a model then chances are it's a launch in Singapore. You'd be right, as the all-new 2022 Honda HR-V has just been launched in the island, the second ASEAN market to get the model behind Thailand. Customers can choose between one pure-petrol variant (1.5 DX) or the range-topping hybrid (1.5 HX e:HEV), with prices ranging from SGD 123,999 (~RM 385k) to SGD 154,999 (~RM 482k). The Singapore-spec HR-V is fully-imported, CBU Japan. Details of the Singapore-spec HR-V The bas

It is always exciting to welcome the arrival of a whole new model, but we often neglect the classics that shaped the brand by outselling all its competitors and becoming the best-selling cars in history. Here are the 5 top selling cars in the world. According to Automotive News Europe’s statistics, the top selling car model of all time since its launch is the Toyota Corolla. Launched in 1966, the Corolla has since sold more than 45 million cars in the world. Second in the ranking is the Ford F-S