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You may notice that women and cars do not mix, technically. Generally, if a man talks to a woman about a certain part of a car, she would be in silence and probably gives him an answer that could be gibberish (for the sake of that ego in her), giving a bad notion to the [...]
March 4th, 2010 | Posted in Automotive, News | No Comments
Edaran Tan Chong Motors (ETCM), the sole distributor of Nissan cars in Malaysia just announced their latest financing plan. If you are thinking of getting a Nissan, you will be in for some goodies. ETCM is offering the following attractive interest rates to purchasers of Nissan Sylphy, Grand Livina, Sentra, X-Trail and Serena (for private [...]
March 2nd, 2010 | Posted in Automotive, News | No Comments
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 [...]
February 24th, 2010 | Posted in Automotive, News | No Comments
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 [...]
February 23rd, 2010 | Posted in Automotive, News | No Comments
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 [...]
February 19th, 2010 | Posted in Automotive, News, Opinions | No Comments
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, [...]
February 12th, 2010 | Posted in Automotive, News, Opinions | 1 Comment
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 [...]
February 11th, 2010 | Posted in Automotive, News | No Comments
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 [...]
February 11th, 2010 | Posted in Automotive, News | 1 Comment
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 [...]
February 10th, 2010 | Posted in News | No Comments
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 [...]
January 29th, 2010 | Posted in Automotive, News | No Comments