Essential Motoring 101

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’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.

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

What was he thinking! An American truck driver literally dropped off a Ferrari 430 Spider when his boss told him to do so. One thing for sure, somebody’s gotta pay for it. So who’s to blame here? The hydraulics or the driver?
Boch Luxe is a luxury car dealer that distributes cars like Maseratis and of [...]

Many car owners have their own ways and ‘beliefs’ in the ideal approach of maintaining a car. Interestingly, there are also facts and myths surrounding this subject.
So tell me, how often do you send your car for oil change? Every 5,000km or 10,000km? Would changing that oil regularly prolongs the life of your car?
How about [...]

We are mostly aware that Jackie Chan, Hong Kong’s top kung fu maestro, love to drive fast cars and crash them in his movies — and escape unhurt, or maybe with some minor bruises. Yup, he is a petrolhead alright and it doesnt need rocket science to figure out that he also ventured into China’s [...]