Archive for the 'Opinions' Category

Toyota stucked accelerator pedal simulator

If you dont know how it looks and feels like when the accelerator pedal gets stuck to your floormat, this simulator is close to the real thing.
This bloke who is obviously have lots of time to kill had created a simulation of a Toyota car speeding to no where with a brake failure warning sign [...]

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, [...]

Debunked: Car maintenance myths

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 [...]

Top 50 ugliest cars in the past 50 years

Here is a list of the ugly ducklings of the automotive industry, fifty of them for the past 50 years. Funny that they also included a Ferrari Enzo in that list! Do you think the Hummer H2 is butt ugly? Also found in the list, the Corbin Sparrow, a shoe shaped electric car that had [...]

How to make a Skoda disappear?

Sara Watson is an art student from the University of Central Lancashire in England. Her work of art turned heads of passerbys and it was not because of her cute face or whether she has a sexy body but it was the body of an old Skoda.
She used ‘magic’ on the car in an out-of-this-world [...]

Proton Exora for you and I *updated*

There has been endless buzzing on Proton’s debut in the MPV (multi-purpose vehicle) segment with its Exora (sounded after an exotic flower Ixora, in a naming contest organised by the manufacturer) and what seemed to be the determining  factor for Proton to regain its customers’ trust and, hopefully,  its sales volume in view of the [...]

The wheels of life, like it or not

Whether you are a petrolhead or not, everyone has to go thru the same cycle..

 At the end of the day, you still end up on wheels…

My driving style is quite a fuel-saver, it seems

I got my driver’s license since 1997 (wow, 10 years of driving experience already) and must say that I have been a good and a bad driver. Good in the sense that I use all my indicator lights whenever I turn left or right. Even during parking, I will use my hazard lights whilst reversing [...]