Author: Jonathan Lee
Volkswagen Golf GTI Clubsport Mk8.5 The progenitor of the new hatch genre, the Volkswagen Golf GTI hits the half-century mark next 12 months, and Wolfsburg is celebrating the milestone with a fiftieth anniversary special edition of the Mk8.5 this June. That date wasn’t picked at random – it coincides with the Nürburgring 24 Hours from June 19 to 22, where race versions of the automobile will aim to secure a second successive class victory. Not much was revealed within the press release, but Autocar expects the commemorative model to be based on essentially the most potent Clubsport variant – only…
Remember the incident involving a Proton Saga FL driving against traffic on the Malaysia-Singapore Second Link highway yesterday? It seems that the driving force involved is an 85-year-old man, based on a Harian Metro report, reigniting questions on whether senior residents needs to be allowed to proceed driving. Iskandar Puteri police chief Assistant Commissioner M Kumarasan said the person turned up on the district’s traffic investigation and enforcement division later within the day to assist within the investigation. It was found that the driving force ended up opposing southbound traffic on kilometre 14.3 of the Second Link after making a…
Motorists driving on the Malaysia-Singapore Second Link this afternoon got a shock of their lives when a road user driving against traffic nearly caused a multi-car collision. Based on a video posted by Facebook user Roda Johor, the incident happened southbound near the Iskandar Puteri exit around 2:40 pm. The dash cam footage shows a automobile encountering a gold Proton Saga FL driving in the other way, and on the fast lane at that. The driving force of the said automobile, in addition to those of the Proton Exora ahead and the Proton Perdana behind, all needed to take evasive…
The road transport department (JPJ) has furnished its registration data for the month of February 2025, giving us a snapshot of how the automotive industry did last month. Here, we’re taking a take a look at the highest 20 best-selling brands, and it’s no surprise who’s on top. Yes, as has been the case for time immemorial, Perodua has taken a commanding lead with 31,382 vehicles registered in February, representing a sizeable 38.3% hop over the previous month. That’s almost thrice its nearest challenger, Proton, which sold just 11,068 vehicles. Its 54,627-unit year-to-date figure paints the same picture, being excess…
Other than answering our questions on Touch ‘n Go eWallet’s latest SOS Balance feature, operator TNG Digital also provided some insight into the long-awaited introduction of its PayDirect system on PLUS Malaysia’s closed-system tolled highways, resembling the North-South Expressway (NSE). To recap, PayDirect allows motorists using their TNG cards to make use of their eWallet balance to pay for tolls, as a substitute of what’s of their cards. PayDirect is certainly one of the important thing components of SOS Balance; without it, only RFID users will have the opportunity to utilise their eWallet balance and thus, SOS Balance. Of the…
Stellantis’ recent regional parts hub in Malaysia, which is able to serve India and Asia-Pacific, has received its first shipment of stock, the automotive conglomerate announced today. The milestone marks the initial phase of a complete shipment of €10 million (RM46.4 million), €8 million (RM37.2 million) of which is currently in transit from North America, France, Italy and China, comprising a complete of 35,000 SKUs. The power, situated in an unnamed free trade zone, continues to be on the right track to be operational throughout the first quarter of the yr, the corporate added. It’ll serve all brands – Peugeot,…
Just over a yr after the world premiere of the sixth-generation Forester, Subaru has now pulled the covers off the Hybrid model ahead of the Chicago Auto Show this weekend. As previously reported, the automotive derives its petrol-electric powertrain from the most recent Crosstrek Hybrid, which in turn took the technology from Toyota’s highly successful hybrid models. The Strong Hybrid system, because the Pleiades brand calls it, is a series-parallel setup that replaces the mild hybrid e-Boxer offered on the previous Forester. This consists of a bigger 2.5 litre Atkinson-cycle naturally-aspirated flat-four (the e-Boxer used a 2.0 litre mill) mated…
The proposed merger between Honda and Nissan isn’t going quite as easily as planned. Each firms announced on Friday that they’ll only release details of their plans – originally slated to be revealed at the tip of last month – in the midst of February. Based on Kyodo News, the carmakers said they were still discussing the finer points of the merger, having confirmed in a press conference last month they’d agreed to start talks of merging under a holding company in 2026. Each brands would proceed to operate as usual inside that very same holding company, they added. Honda…
Having launched the automotive in each Thailand and Hong Kong, Geely is now gearing as much as bring the EX5 to the Indonesian market this month. In response to local news portal Kompas, the carmaker sent out media invites for the electrical SUV’s launch, happening on January 22. To recap, the EX5 is the worldwide version of the Galaxy E5, which is a twin of the recently-launched Proton eMas 7. All three cars are an identical all the way down to the powertrain – a single electric motor on the front that produces 218 PS (160 kW) and 320 Nm…
The top of the yr hasn’t exactly treated the East Coast thoroughly, with floods displacing residents and causing untold destruction across several states in late November. Disaster has struck again within the closing days of the yr, delivering a final blow with more flooding in Kelantan and Terengganu since yesterday. In accordance with the Bernama, the town of Machang in Kelantan is one among those affected, forcing the closure of a federal and state road, FT 479 Jalan Kemuning-Bukit Belah and D16 Jalan Batu 30-Temangan. These roads at the moment are around 800 mm underwater, said the state’s works department…
