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Kia Sorento eliminates driver’s blind spots
08 May 2020
LONDON: The new Kia Sorento gets cutting-edge Blind-Spot View Monitor (BVM) technology, which eliminates a driver’s left- and right-side blind spots. The Sorento is the first Ki...
Iconic Lotus Elise liveries live again
08 May 2020
HETHEL: Lotus has launched four new limited-edition versions of the Elise, officially called the Elise Classic Heritage Editions, each with a vibrant and distinctive colour palette...
W Series starts ladies-only eSports racing league
08 May 2020
W Series driver Chadwick at home in London on her W Series Esports League set-up, including hardware from Logitech. LONDON: W Series, the international single-seater motor racin...
May 9-15: No movement in fuel prices
08 May 2020
PETALING JAYA: No changes in fuel pricing from May 9-15. RON95 petrol remains at RM1.25 a litre; RON97 petrol at RM1.55; and diesel at RM1.40. The weekly fuel pricing mechani...
Trevo offers up to RM100 savings during CMCO travel
08 May 2020
KUALA LUMPUR: Trevo, Malaysia's people-to-people car-sharing platform, announced the launch of its Gerak Safely campaign with up to RM100 in savings. The campaign, from now unti...
Drive-in cinemas regaining popularity across US
08 May 2020
NEW YORK: The team behind the Tribeca Film Festival is organising a summer film series across the United States at drive-in theatres, which are experiencing a renaissance thanks to...
Take a tour of Audi's design laboratory
08 May 2020
INGOLSTADT: Use your smartphone, tablet or PC to explore design processes at Audi with the new “Insight Audi Design” live stream as the interactive discovery tour has now been adde...
Video game developers roped in for autonomous tech
08 May 2020
LONDON: Oxbotica, a global leader in autonomous vehicle software, is employing world-leading video game developers who have worked on some of the highest-rated titles of the last d...
BMW i high-voltage batteries: Modular design, modular swap
08 May 2020
KUALA LUMPUR: A key concern for electrified vehicle ownership is the repair and replacement of the battery cells. The BMW high-voltage battery presents solutions to concerns aro...
Tesla's Musk delays release of Roadster, global plant shutdo...
08 May 2020
SAN FRANCISCO: Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk said in a podcast interview released on Thursday that the company’s planned Roadster sports car would take a backseat to the development of o...
Banks could face modification loss of RM4.4b on HP instalmen...
08 May 2020
KUALA LUMPUR: Maybank Investment Bank Research estimates the one-off “Day One” provision, or modification loss under MFRS 9, following the banks’ decision not to charge additional ...
All new Nissan e-NV200 XL Voltia
08 May 2020
PARIS: Nissan futureproofs last-mile delivery operations with the all-new, enlarged and all-electric Nissan e-NV200 XL Voltia van. The electric van for urban deliveries, the e-N...
Volvo says virus won’t slow its rollout of self-driving car ...
08 May 2020
ETROIT: Volvo Car AB is grappling with plant shutdowns and layoffs, but one thing it’s not doing amid the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic is pumping the brakes on autonomous ...
Harley makes acting CEO permanent after well-received debut
08 May 2020
Zeitz says he would focus on expanding US ridership, profitable bikes and electric motorcycles. — AFP MILWAUKEE: Harley-Davidson Inc.’s acting chief executive officer will take ov...
Interstate travel: Seven police control posts on major highw...
07 May 2020
SUBANG JAYA: Police have set up seven control posts along several major highways to conduct random inspections on vehicles during the four-day interstate travel period which began ...
General Motors taps Flir Systems for fever check cameras at ...
07 May 2020
DETROIT: General Motors Co has tapped thermal camera maker Flir Systems Inc for scanners to detect fevers among workers when they return to GM’s factories, the companies told Reute...
The magic word for Detroit automakers is trucks
07 May 2020
DETROIT: The coronavirus pandemic brought the US auto industry to its knees, but Americans’ love affair with beefy pickup trucks is helping the Detroit automakers get on the road t...
Latest Proton X70 comes with N95 cabin filter
07 May 2020
PETALING JAYA: The Proton X70 has a new selling point. The 2020 model is now able to generate cleaner cabin air with the introduction of a N95 cabin filter. The new filter is mo...
BMW joins car peers with warning of coronavirus profit slump
06 May 2020
MUNICH: BMW AG lowered its profit outlook for the year as the German carmaker said the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, which continues to disrupt production and sales in mar...
Hyundai i20 N prototype shows up for winter-testing
06 May 2020
STOCKHOLM: Northern Sweden played host to the i20 N prototype recently with Hyundai Motorsport’s World Rally Championship (WRC) driver Thierry Neuville at its helm. The i20 N, i...