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Indonesia plans fuel price hike to control ballooning subsid...
16 August 2022
JAKARTA: Indonesia plans to hike fuel prices to control ballooning energy subsidies, media reported on Monday, citing comments from the country's energy minister. The price hike...
Chasing green goals, corporations push car fleet managers to...
12 August 2022
LONDON: Large corporations are jumping on the "green" bandwagon left and right, which in turn is pushing firms that lease and manage car fleets to convert to electric vehicles (EVs...
Is this the final shift down? Why manual transmissions are v...
10 August 2022
BERLIN: The news came as a shock. When Mercedes-Benz confirmed that it would no longer be fitting a manual gearbox to its models as an option from spring next year, some drivers we...
EMMA Malaysia car audio and modification competition draws t...
09 August 2022
GENTING HIGHLANDS: Some 135 top competition cars gathered for the EMMA (European Mobile Media Association) Malaysia 2022 Car Audio & Modifications Competition at Grand Ion Dele...
China electric car sales forecast to hit record 6 million
09 August 2022
BEIJING: Electric vehicles sales in China are forecast to hit a record 6 million this year as demand for cleaner cars surges. The China Passenger Car Association raised its esti...
Indonesia says Tesla strikes US$5bil deal to buy nickel prod...
08 August 2022
JAKARTA: US carmaker Tesla has signed contracts worth about US$5 billion (RM22.3bil) to buy materials for their batteries from nickel processing companies in Indonesia, a senior ca...
Singapore-based Porsche Asia Pacific gets new CEO
05 August 2022
SINGAPORE: Hannes Ruoff has been appointed as the new chief executive officer (CEO) of Singapore-based Porsche Asia Pacific Pte Ltd, effective Oct 1. Ruoff, 40, comes to the rol...
Catch debut tour of all-new Ford Ranger at selected location...
03 August 2022
KUALA LUMPUR: Sime Darby Auto ConneXion (SDAC), the sole distributor for Ford in Malaysia, will be previewing the next-generation Ranger at selected locations from today. The pi...
Lamborghini CEO on going all-electric: 'We don’t need to dec...
02 August 2022
BOLOGNA: Lamborghini will spend more than US$1.8 billion (RM8bil) to build hybrid versions of its rowdy Italian SUV and powerful supercars by 2024. But the proposed hybrids are ...
Apple poaches key Lamborghini executive to work on its elect...
28 July 2022
SAN FRANCISCO: Apple Inc has enlisted one of Lamborghini’s top car-development managers in a sign that it’s stepping up work on a self-driving electric vehicle, according to people...
Solar-powered car from Germany's Sono Motors unveiled in fin...
27 July 2022
MUNICH: Until now, we've only seen a few early prototypes of the Sion, a futuristic new electric runabout planned by a German startup and promising the ability to recharge itself o...
Toyota plans RM8bil Indonesia investment to build electric v...
27 July 2022
JAKARTA: Japanese carmaker Toyota Motor Corp plans to invest 27.1 trillion rupiah (RM8bil) in Indonesia in the next five years to produce electric vehicles (EVs), Indonesia's econo...
Avery Dennison rolls out its largest set of automotive windo...
27 July 2022
KUALA LUMPUR: Global materials science company Avery Dennison launched on Tuesday its largest collection of automotive window films across Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapo...
Indonesia says Mitsubishi Motors to beef up local production
26 July 2022
JAKARTA: Mitsubishi Motors Corp plans to invest about 10 trillion rupiah (RM2.9bil) in Indonesia between 2022 and 2025, the country's chief economics minister said today. Airlan...
First locally-assembled Kia Carnival under Kia Malaysia to l...
25 July 2022
KUALA LUMPUR: Kia Malaysia Sdn Bhd, a joint-venture between Kia Corp and Bermaz Auto Bhd (BAuto), has rolled out its first locally-assembled Kia model - the Kia Carnival. Assemb...
VW set to get major ID3 rival from Chinese MG4 electric cros...
24 July 2022
MUNICH: Volkswagen's ID3, the Renault Mégane E-Tech and other cars in the growing range of family-friendly fully electrics are set to get significant competition in the form of a C...
Singaporean loses Honda Civic Type R in Genting, finds it in...
23 July 2022
PETALING JAYA: A Singaporean who lost his car in Genting Highlands only to recover it a few days later in an unrecognisable state has vowed not to drive up to Malaysia again. Qu...
Next-generation Ford Ranger introduced from RM108,888
22 July 2022
KUALA LUMPUR: Ford Motor Company, together with its local distribution partner, Sime Darby Auto Connexion (SDAC) today debuted the next-generation Ford Ranger that gets improved ro...
Daimler Truck starts production of second electric truck, th...
22 July 2022
BERLIN: Daimler Truck has started production of its second electric model, an inner-city waste disposal truck named the eEconic, the company said today, as it seeks to capture mark...
Carsome expands regional office in Mutiara Damansara
20 July 2022
KUALA LUMPUR: Southeast Asia’s largest integrated car e-commerce platform Carsome has expanded its regional headquarters in Malaysia in a move to grow a high-skilled workforce to s...