Essential Motoring 101

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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…

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 [...]

After returning the Toyota Vios J in a Toyota facility in Shah Alam, I spotted a white Prius! Yes, it was THE celebrated Toyota Prius indeed, right here in Shah Alam, looked weathered and used. It could be a test model in Malaysia, whether it could take the torture of Malaysian roads and driving conditions. [...]

Forget about reducing your travel time and planning your journey first before you start the engine – we still need to go for that road trips to the beach, visit our loved ones, have a cup or two of teh tarik at the mamak, see the girlfriend andbring out, or simply to run a small [...]

The recent news about the government cutting on non-beneficial expenses and fueling more on development has got the rakyat filled with many questions that need answers.

A go for local cars or a no for imported cars?