[singlepic id=1265 w=630 h= float=] Today, UMW Toyota Motor has announced and set the on-the-road price for the Toyota Prius at RM139,000 in Peninsular Malaysia, which is about RM35,000 lower than the original RM175,000 tag previously. The price for the Prius in Sabah and Sarawak is set at RM141,000. The changes in the prices are with effect from today – ...

Tesla, the Palo Alto maker of electric sports cars and new pal of Toyota, opened a showroom in Tokyo this week. It’s Tesla’s first dealership in Asia. The U.S. maker of electric sports cars is hoping to persuade rich buyers before eventually widening its appeal with cheaper models. Tesla has globally sold only 1,400 of the electric cars – which ...

Toyota’s global production fell in September for the first time in a year, while rivals Honda and Nissan increased output thanks to strong demand in China. Toyota Motor Corp. said yesterday that its worldwide production dropped 1.3% to 672,604 vehicles, marking the first year-on-year decrease in 12 months. The world’s No. 1 automaker said the fall was due to weak ...

[singlepic id=1265 w=630 h= float=] Toyota Motor Corporation announced that it will begin manufacturing the Toyota Prius hybrid in Thailand starting from November 2010. The car will be built at Toyota’s Gateway Plant, near the Thai capital Bangkok, where it also makes the Corolla, Camry, Camry Hybrid and other models. Thailand will be the third country to make Toyota’s popular ...

As the love of speed and the embracing of low emission technology prepare to collide head on, the back end of the vehicle becomes ever more controversial. The exhaust on any vehicle serves several purposes. It will remove all the by-products of combustion from the engine and send them into the air, away from the driver and any passengers in ...

As the global climate changed and initiative to save the mother earth, emissions requirements is tightly enforced over years. Consequently, the Mazda’s rotary engine is now failing to meet emissions requirements set by the engineering team at Mazda. “We will never give up” says Mitsuo Hitomi, general manager of Mazda’s powertrain division, referring to the automaker’s long-running investment into the ...

The success the Japanese rivals at Nissan and Toyota enjoy with their luxury divisions. At this time, Hyundai triggers to launch a luxury division to rival Infiniti and Lexus, and the first step in this direction might be made in the next three years. If everything on track, we would be able to see first Premium’ Hyundai cars on the ...

Maker’s Marque: The History of Lotus – Lotus began as Lotus Engineering Limited in 1952 and has made cars on the site of a Second World War airfield in Norfolk since 1966. – Now owned by Malaysia’s Proton, it was the brainchild of Colin Chapman, a highly innovative engineer who had a lasting influence on motor racing and died a ...