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The New Straits Times Autoshow 2013 – Is it worth going?

The News Straits Times Car of the Year Awards is arguably the most prestigious annual automotive event in Malaysia and is often referred to as the benchmark for the best cars available to Malaysians, as judged by Malaysians. To put it simply, we don’t care if every other magazine or …

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The all-new BMW 1 Series launched

. The circle is finally complete. BMW has finally launched its latest 1 series and looks set to make things a lot more interesting in the hothatch segment. There’s 5 price tags to choose from when it comes to the 1 series; the base spec 116i and 2 trim levels …

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The Kia Rio – The new B segment Lifestyle

. Malaysians are a difficult crowd to please when it comes to deciding the perfect car. Everyone seems to have an opinion about it and getting a general consensus where you other half, their extended family, your extended family, your friends, colleagues and bosses and all their pets to all …

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The new 9th generation Honda Accord launched

. To all Japanese car lovers (in particular Honda fans), great news! The all new 9th generation Honda Accord has been launched and it is quite a winner! Sporting an entirely new design and brimming with new technologies (something we don’t see much in a Japanese D segment nowadays), the …

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What’s this thing about Perodua issuing recalls for Myvis?

Earlier this week, the Malaysian Reserve paper reports that the car might be recalled in the near future to fix certain issues relating to the drive shaft (article found HERE). Perodua has since denied that there will be such a recall saying they suspended production only for a day after …

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The new Proton Suprima S – Tried and Tested

. It’s been hot in the automotive circle in Malaysia where a slew of hot hatchbacks are launched within a span of weeks from each other. From Mercedes, we have the A200/A250, Volvo with the V40, Volkswagen offers the Golf GTi to spice things up ….. but they all pale …

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Bank Negara to set new rules in car loans?

. So everyone is talking about the rumored 7-year-maximum loan tenure (instead of 9 years) and buyers need to fork out at least 20% deposit and banks can only give a maximum of 80% loan effective 1st September 2013. So far, it’s all just talk with no visual evidence of …

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