Archive for February, 2010

Back to the Future with the DeLorean – It’s HERE!

I can’t believe it has been resurrected! The cool car that I so admire when I was 5 is now back from the past! :O
Jay Leno the American version of Jeremy Clarkson of TopGear UK takes on a spin with the brand new DeLorean car from the 80s. Yep, the car that was feature in [...]

Malaysia car sales up 33 percent in January

Malaysia’s auto sales rose 33 percent year-on-year in January, an industry group said Monday, as improved consumer sentiment helped boost Southeast Asia’s biggest passenger car market.

The Malaysian Automotive Association (MAA) said sales of new motor vehicles increased to 50,622 units in January, up from 38,107 sold in the same month last year.

Oops, did we did [...]

5 reasons to get a Suzuki Swift now

This festive season, Suzuki Malaysia is offering a few goodies for carbuyers and if you are thinking of getting a compact small car with all the looks, I recommend you get the Swift. I personally road-tested the car for a couple of days and for such a zippy car like this, the Swift handles really [...]

Buying a Car – Decisions decisions!

It is still early in 2010 and many of you might have been tightening belts saving up your hard-earned money to get that sexy Honda Civic, or the elegant Peugeot 308 Turbo, or maybe the zippy Suzuki Swift. Maybe you don’t have a preferred car to buy but then again you will be stormed with [...]

Texting while driving is not a new road killer

Many years ago, Malaysian TVs showed ads on educating its citizens to not drink and drive and since mobile phones came into their lives, texting is now a road killer.
I’d like to share with you statistics from USA on drivers who send SMS while driving on the road.

Stop it or you will kill innocent lives, [...]

Taiwanese recruits, transform and roll out!

For fans of Transformers movies, like yours truly, here is an ad from Taiwan military force in a campaign to recruit its citizens by using a video with the morphing robots in it.
About the robots in the ad, I must say the Taiwanese are quite good in creating their own steel sculptures. The only thing [...]

List of Toyota recalled models

This news is not hot off the oven but I’m sure many of you wanna find out which Toyota models were affected.
Toyota’s recall of eight car and truck models over potentially sticky gas pedals, which affects 2.3 million cars in United States of America.
Fret not as Toyota cars in Malaysia are not affected in this [...]

Check NCD online before renewing your car insurance

You can now check your NCD (or NCB) status online with ISM Malaysia! But to some of you unsure of what NCD or NCB is, you will know it when it is time to renew your car insurance. Haha! Since you are already here, might as well I share with you my definition of this [...]