Thursday, May 11, 2017

Volkswagen introduces the Special Edition Polo ALLSTAR - The first of a series of ALLSTAR model range

Volkswagen Passenger Cars Malaysia (VPCM) has announced the launch of the special edition ALLSTAR range, consisting of specially customised Polo, Vento and Jetta models. The ALLSTAR range kicks-off with the Volkswagen Polo ALLSTAR, which will be launched this weekend, and will subsequently be followed by the Vento ALLSTAR later this month, and the Jetta ALLSTAR in June.

BMW Group Malaysia today officially opened the doors to its new Regional Parts Distribution Centre at the Free Industrial Zone of the Senai International Airport in Johor Bahru. Situated on over 775,000 square feet of land in the Free Industrial Zone and with an investment of over RM 130 million, the new BMW Group Regional Parts Distribution Centre is one of the largest BMW facility of its kind in the Asia Pacific region and will support over 23 countries in the region as a logistics warehouse and parts distribution centre for after sales parts, components and lifestyle merchandises for the brands BMW, MINI and BMW Motorrad.

Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 3 officially launched - We try it out at the Sepang International Circuit

The Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 3 was officially launched earlier today at Sepang International Circuit. According to Goodyear, the new premium luxury sport tyre delivers 31% better wear performance and shorter braking distance on wet and dry roads.

In conjunction with the upcoming Hari Raya festivities, Volkswagen Passenger Cars Malaysia (VPCM) is running a special festive campaign offering a Volkswagen from as low as RM25* a day. During this campaign period, customers can enjoy cash rebates and savings on selected models such as the Polo, Vento, Jetta, Golf, Passat Comfortline and Trendline as well as the Tiguan Comfortline. Raya celebrations have started quite early in some ways.

There's a new Audi dealership in the Klang Valley. Audi Malaysia today announced the official appointment of Rimau International as the latest authorised dealer to represent the Audi brand in Malaysia. The company has already started operations from a temporary facility in Setia Alam, Selangor since the fourth quarter of 2016.

Mobil Lubricants chosen for Peugeot Service Centres throughout Malaysia

ExxonMobil’s distributor, Mobilub Trading Sdn Bhd (short for Mobil Lubricants), has signed a three-year agreement with Nasim Shd. Bhd., Peugeot’s authorized dealer in Malaysia. Mobilub will supply a range of Mobil lubricants to all 35 Peugeot outlets nationwide.

Shell Malaysia today launched its new fuels in petrol and in diesel. The fuel are now available at Shell stations nationwide with the same range as before (FuelSave 95, V-Power 97, V-Power Racing, FuelSave Diesel and Euro 5 Diesel), the new fuels are designed to work with both modern as well as older vehicles. The new formulations contain Shell's latest formulation which they call DYNAFLEX technology. The new fuels are available at Shell stations nationwide from today, and also available to industrial customers and commercial fleet owners through Shell’s B2B channels

MOTOR VEHICLES (SAFETY SEATBELTS) RULES 1978 state that...

Article 7.

Certain categories of persons exempted from wearing safety seat-belts.Rule 4 shall not apply

(a) to any person in a police, military or fire service motor vehicle or an ambulance;

Sime Darby Auto Performance (SDAP) officially introduced a new driving programme aptly titled "Introduction to Porsche" for owners of the new 4 foor Porsche models. The customers or new owners get to enhance their four-door sports car fascination and customer experience on the racetrack. This means that owners get more thrills every second even with a four door Porsche here in Malaysia

Motorsport: At the Audi R8 LMS Cup Rounds 1 & 2 at Sepang International Circuit - Photographs and Race Reports

The Audi R8 LMS Cup 2017 has started. The sixth season of the prestigious one-make championship happened this weekend with Rounds 1 and 2 at Malaysia’s Sepang International Circuit. This year, the 2017 Audi R8 LMS Cup season sees a number of exciting developments like new drivers, the entry of new Audi factory team WRT and two new race tracks on the race calendar. In addition to that, the push-to-pass button – whereby drivers receive a limited number of temporary boosts of 50 horsepower – returns, bringing an additional layer of strategy to each race.

Happenings, Offers & Promotions: PROTON Offers ISOFIX Child Seats to new customers for RM299, Amazing 5 Value Campaign Offer Details & Experience the Drive Contest

The folks at PROTON have a lot going on in the month of May 2017. The most important item is the fact that if anyone buys a PROTON during this period, they are entitled to purchase a Certified Safety Child Seat with Isofix (ECE R44/04 compliant) worth RM1,000 for only RM299.

Roadshows & Offers: Your Whee-lly Fun Day Carnival by Continental Tyres is happening this month of May

Continental Tyre Malaysia is having their first ever carnival extravaganza in Peninsular Malaysia. Three (3) roadshow carnivals will be held in Penang, KL and JB for 3 weekends starting with this weekend in Auto City Juru Penang. Your Whee-lly Fun Day will consist of a number of activities such as a kids corner and ladies corner where respective visitors are able to take part in numerous challenges in winning exciting giveaways. Quite a historic event for Continental Tyre here in Malaysia.

The thing with most cars these days is that they are mostly built to a certain level of standard and quality. If you bought a compact city sedan you most like would get a stunted looking car based on hatchback with hard plastics everywhere. If you bought a slightly larger compact family sedan like a Honda Civic everything moves up a notch but they’re still keeping lots of stuff out of the car in terms of material used and also bits that make it look classy as well as refined. Some even limit sound deadening material and some limit styling. Basically when you buy an affordable car you usually get less even though the specs say it has everything inside it.

Unsurprisingly, the new Porsche 911 GT3 is faster than the previous GT3. Surprisingly, it is 12.3 seconds faster than the older model. Absolutely blistering in terms of raw pace, this new 911 GT3. It goes to show how much fine tuning Porsche has put into this car.

BMW Group Malaysia had recently unveiled the All-New BMW 5 Series to the public via live telecast and live digital interaction on the largest digital screen in Malaysia at The Pavilion Kuala Lumpur. During the event, which was held on the 31st of March, a month and a bit more ago, BMW Malaysia also ran its #My5uccess contest where entries were broadcasted in real time onto the large digital interactive screen over The Pavilion Kuala Lumpur.

Maxx ‘N Go by MaxxOil Malaysia appoints Datuk Lee Chong Wei as Brand Ambassador, collaborates with Grab Malaysia and the Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Car Dealers & Credit Companies Association (FMC)

Recently, MaxxOil Malaysia had introduced a car service smartphone application (app) called Maxx 'N Go. Today, they have officially launched it in Kuala Lumpur and has signed up Datuk Wira Lee Chong Wei as its brand ambassador as well as Grab Malaysia and Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Car Dealers & Credit Companies Association (FMC).

It has been awhile since Tengku Djan has participated in the motorsport called Drifting. So after a four year hiatus from the sport, he has now returned to represent MaxxOil Malaysia's drift team together with Charles Ng, from Hong Kong. Together, they will participate in the upcoming Drift Competition 2017 at the Songkhla Speedway in Amphoe Hat Yai, Thailand.

Nice MPV, the new Kia Grand Carnival. I shall state some points on why I actually dig this new MPV and then let Naza Kia's feature article state the rest.

During the month of May, the TOYOTA GO 2017 roadshow will be at seven locations, including Sabah and Sarawak (It's good that East Malaysia isn't left out). Visitors can learn more about the wide range of Toyota models available from the sneaker look Toyota Sienta compact MPV to their best-selling pick-up truck, the Toyota Hilux. Test drives are available for all the models as well as offers and other fun stuff.

Modified Cars: Land Rover Range Rover Sport 5.0 V8 Supercharged SVR Pace Car by Project Kahn

I love the current Range Rover Sport. In any form. Even those modded by Project Kahn from the UK. Now Project Kahn has spent nearly 20 years taking some of the best vehicles the automotive world could offer and making them better or worse. Depending on your point of view. These days they do a lot of Land Rover vehicles. And they look quite good actually. No ridiculously garish stuff!

Aside from the launch and handing over ceremony of one of the first Lotus 3-Eleven track oriented sports car, Lotus Cars Malaysia also officially launched the Evora Sport 410 model here in Malaysia. This is the latest Evora variant to be produced and it is basically lighter, more powerful and therefore faster than the 'entry-level' Evora 400.

I attended the Malaysian launch of the Lotus 3-Eleven sports car earlier today. It was the official launch of the car here as well as the handover of one of two units already spoken for here in Malaysia. We witnessed the handover of car number to a loyal Lotus customer and also noted that he had been allocated car number #007. Another nice bit of trivia is that the other Malaysian customer for the 3-Eleven was given number #001. A privilege for Malaysia in my opinion. That car is in Penang, folks.

Mercedes-Benz Malaysia Commercial Vehicles (MBM CV) together with authorised dealer, Hap Seng Commercial Vehicle (HSCV), has launched the fourth HSCV dedicated commercial vehicle 3S centre, the Mercedes-Benz Hap Seng Commercial Vehicle Centre, located in Ipoh (HSCV Ipoh). To date, HSCV has an established presence in Kinrara, Klang, Kuantan, Kota Kinabalu, Kuching and Miri. In total, MBM CV has 15 authorised dealerships nationwide.

Spotted For Sale: 1991 Mercedes-Benz 230CE converted to God knows what

This is another horror story in my opinion. The Mercedes-Benz W124 or C124 CE coupe is already a modern classic. So keeping one of these cars in pristine condition with its lines straight and true is actually a good thing as if you guys wanna talk resale value, you should buy one of these for about RM25-35,000 and you still may get to sell it off for the same price many years down the road. But I don't think you could do that with this one.

Perodua had recently opened its 199th sales outlet (which includes sales sub outlets) through its newly appointed dealer, MD Worlds Sdn Bhd in Kota Samarahan, Sarawak. According to Perodua Sales Sdn Bhd Managing Director, Dato’ Dr. Zahari Husin, East Malaysia is an important market for Perodua as there are a lot of untapped potential there particularly with all the development projects planned by the federal and state government.

PERODUA Launches the Bezza sedan in Mauritius

Perodua President & Chief Executive Officer, YBhg Datuk (Dr) AminarRashid Salleh (two from right) handing over the mock key to one of the first Perodua Bezza owner in Mauritius during the launch of Perodua Bezza in Mauritius, which was held at Rauf Dusmohamud & Co Ltd’s sales

showroom at Port-Louis, Mauritius’ capital recently.

The Perodua Bezza sedan has now set foot on the island of Mauritius. This makes the island nation Perodua's second export destination for its new Bezza sedan. The launch of the Perodua Bezza in Mauritius was held at Perodua's distributor in Mauritius, Rauf Dusmohamud & Co Ltd’s sales showroom at Port-Louis, Mauritius’ capital on the 29th of April 2017 and was hosted by the Rauf Dusmohamud’s Managing Director Mr Raouf Dusmohamud.

Wow. You cannot get any luckier than this. Nine year old boy, Muhammad Farhan Hakimi bin Mohammad Nor, who participated in the 3rd Perlis Marathon won a brand new Peugeot 408 2.0 worth close to RM110,000 in the lucky draw for the event. Imagine just entering to run in a marathon and come away with a whole new car.

A grand Jamboree in conjunction with the Land Rover Owners Club of Malaysia (LROM) 20th anniversary celebrations was held from last Saturday, the 29th of April 2017 to earlier today at the Petai Jungle Lodge in Karak, Selangor. The convoy was flagged off on saturday from LR Premium Sdn. Bhd, an independent Land Rover and Jaguar after-sales service centre in Petaling Jaya.

Motorsport: Audi R8 LMS Cup 2017 Starts at Sepang this May 6 and 7, 2017

Six years after the inception of the Audi R8 LMS Cup and Asia’s leading sprint race is still going strong! In fact, the R8 LMS Cup rounds at the Sepang F1 Circuit will be the season opener, before the action races off to Japan, Korea and two locations in China for this thrilling championship.

The biggest premium brand in Malaysia has expanded its wings a little bit more. Mercedes-Benz now have another Autohaus (3S) Centre in Bukit Tinggi, Klang. The Mercedes-Benz Hap Seng Star Bukit Tinggi Autohaus is Hap Seng Star’s fifth Autohaus in Klang Valley. This new full-fledged 3S centre enhances coverage for customer care and convenience in Klang.

Happenings: KIA OWNER WINS THE KIA RIO SEDAN IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE MALAYSIA AUTOSHOW 2016

Dr Atiqah Farah Zakaria, receiving the car from Dato Samson Anand George, Group Chief Operating Officer, Automotive Group, Naza Corporation Holdings Sdn Bhd

April 26, 2017 was definitely an unforgettable day for Dr Atiqah Farah Zakaria. She had booked the Kia Grand Carnival at the recent Malaysia Autoshow 2016 and because of that, won a Kia Rio Sedan worth RM74,000.

Hyundai Santa Fe conquers the Antarctic driven by Great Grandson of Sir Ernest Shackleton - I Dig those fancy wheelarches!

Hyundai Motor has made history when a near-standard 2.2-litre diesel Santa Fe became the first passenger vehicle to be driven across the continent of Antarctica from Union Camp to McMurdo and back again. The Santa Fe was driven by Patrick Bergel, the Great Grandson of legendary polar explorer, Sir Ernest Shackleton.

Good news! Naza Kia Malaysia, the official distributor of KIA vehicles in Malaysia have introduced The New Kia Sorento HS Turbo Diesel beginning today and New Kia Sportage GT Turbo Diesel. Both vehicles will be in all Kia showrooms nationwide.

Nearly half (43%)of Malaysia new-car buyers do not fully understand the terms of their auto finance product, according to the inaugural J.D. Power 2017 Malaysia Auto Consumer Finance Study,SM released today. In simple English, most of you guys out there don't know what the heck you just signed with the bank. You could have signed your soul away and not realise it according to JD Power. Well, that's according to me lah. Not them. But you get my point.

Things are still rosey for Mercedes-Benz here in Malaysia during this first quarter of 2017! Mercedes-Benz Malaysia (MBM) has reported that it had delivered 2,945 vehicles to customers in the first quarter of 2017, registering double digit growth of 11% compared to the first quarter of 2016. Mercedes-Benz remains the undisputed leading premium brand in Malaysia with 2.3% total industry market share.

PERODUA BEZZA awarded the “Malaysia Good Design Mark” by the Malaysia Design Council

The Malaysia Design Council had recently recognised the Perodua Bezza as a well designed car under the “Public Areas and Transport Products” award category under the “Malaysia Good Design Mark” (MGDM) awards at “The “Malaysia Good Design Mark” (MGDM) Award Ceremony 2016/2017 held on the 18th of April.2017.

Offers: PROTON's Amazing 5 Value Campaign - Ongoing till the end of April 2017

PROTON cars have a lot going on in the month of April 2017. There is a promotional offer valid from 1-30 April 2017 for all Proton cars bought during this period. This means the whole current line-up - the Proton Saga, Iriz, Persona, Ertiga, Exora, Preve, Suprima S, and Perdana can be purchased under April's PROTON Amazing 5 Value Campaign.

Motorcycles: MODENAS TO COLLABORATE WITH INDIA’S BAJAJ AUTO LTD - Is this Modenas' strategic partner?

Motosikal Dan Enjin Nasional (MODENAS), Malaysia's national motorcycle brand will enter the Malaysian street bike segment through collaboration with Bajaj Auto Ltd (BAL) from India. The collaboration will be initiated in stages including distribution, and technology transfer through the development of a dedicated assembly hub in MODENAS’ plant in Gurun, Kedah. Eventually, MODENAS and BAL are also planning penetration into international markets, using the MODENAS brand in ASEAN and beyond.

Was just perusing through a Perodua press release regarding its first quarter performance for 2017. Impressive as always. They have a market share of 35.9% or 50,300 cars registered from a total of 140,000 vehicles sold in Malaysia so far.

The All New Proton Perdana has been awarded the ‘Malaysia Good Design Mark’ (“MGDM”) accredited by the Malaysia Design Council (“MDC”). The award was accorded to the Perdana under the Public Areas and Transportation Products category. The Perdana, which was officially unveiled on 14 June 2016, received the accreditation in reference to a good design in a well-rounded product which was developed and manufactured locally.

Hino Motors Sales (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd today officially opened its RM8 million upgraded Hino Total Support Customer Centre (HTSCC). This centre is set to be the catalyst for the company’s business growth in the region. The HTSCC, the first in the world outside of Japan is built with international standard specifications from Japan to assist its customers who need to comply with the Malaysian government Safety, Health and Environment Code of Practice (SHE COP).

Ford Malaysia and its distributors Sime Darby Auto Connexion have released a new variant of their ever popular Ranger 2.2 pick-up truck. It gets a lot more features and equipment.

BMW Group Malaysia today introduced the All-New BMW 740Le xDrive. This is the newest BMW 7 Series variant in the country. It will basically replace all previous selling BMW 7 series variants sold here in Malaysia as it takes full advantage of the EEV tax breaks as well as adding new features and equipment too.

Volvo Trucks Malaysia has unveiled the Volvo FH Series of Prime Movers. This is the premium flagship truck for Volvo Trucks in Malaysia. With this new range of trucks, the marque now offers best-in-class fuel economy, reliability and safety. Built for long-haul regional distribution and with superior torque and power, the Volvo FH Series is highly capable of handling deliveries of over-sized loads over long distances.

Renault and TC Euro Cars have locally assembled the Renault Captur crossover - Prices start at RM109,000 and there is an early bird offer too!

Renault and TC Euro Cars (TCEC) have begun locally assembling the Renault Captur. This funky urban crossover/compact SUV is now EEV-certified and more affordable at RM109,000. Malaysia is the only country aside from Renault’s facility in Spain which assembles the Captur. This is another milestone in the local assembly of Renault cars in Malaysia.

Motorsport: History Made with the First Malaysian driver ever to compete in the Ferrari 488 Challenge / 2017 Ferrari Challenge APAC

There is a Malaysian competing in the 2017 Ferrari 488 Challenge in the Ferrari Asia Pacific. This is the first time ever a Malaysian will be doing so. In this category I thought about this before as whilst Malaysia does not seem like it has a lot of Prancing Horses around, we actually do have a whole lot of them prancing around. In fact, we have a very high number of them registered and on the road. One of the highest in the South East Asian region. So finally, a Malaysian, Mr Zen Low will be competing for the whole season. A piece of local Ferrari history, no doubt. Mr. Low has gotten off to a spectacular start, earning second place in the first race and third in the second race of the competition. Congratulations!

Perodua Sales Sdn Bhd Managing Director, Dato' Dr. Zahari Husin received the award at the 2017 Frost & Sullivan;s Malaysia Car of the Year Award recently.

Now just prior to launching the slightly enhanced Perodua Bezza, Perodua managed to capture the 2017 Frost & Sullivan Malaysia Car of the Year award. The 2017 Frost & Sullivan’s Malaysia Car of the Year award was based on the model’s substantial sales volume, sales growth, market share in its segment and overall impact to the total industry volume.

MINI Malaysia launches the MINI Cooper Countryman - Cooper & Cooper S variants from RM239,888 onwards

MINI Malaysia unveiled the All-New MINI Countryman on friday, 14th of April 2017. This is essentially version 2.0 of the maxi sized MINI. The first generation (codenamed R60) was first launched back in 2010 and was produced till sometime last year.

Perodua Slightly Enhances Their Popular Bezza Sedan

There have been reports making their rounds stating that the popular Perodua Bezza sedan will have a makeover. The rumours are true. Perodua have announced that the Bezza will get enhanced styling which includes a slightly redesigned rear bumper and new chrome platinum finish for the Bezza Premium X and Bezza Advance variants.

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Unsurprisingly, the new Porsche 911 GT3 is faster than the previous GT3. Surprisingly, it is 12.3 seconds faster than the older model. Absolutely blistering in terms of raw pace, this new 911 GT3. It goes to show how much fine tuning Porsche has put into this car.

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