For decades the Japanese car industry has been built around one simple idea; if it wears a Japanese badge, it should ideally be built in Japan. That is why the news that Toyota Motor Corporation is preparing to sell Taiwan-made…
Hybrid vehicles promise lower fuel bills and cleaner driving, but many owners are surprised to discover that hybrids can suffer more mechanical wear in certain areas than conventional petrol cars. The culprit isn’t bad engineering; it’s how hybrids are designed…
Kuala Lumpur is a city that runs on cars literally. Whether it’s crawling along Jalan Tun Razak at 8am or cruising slowly through Bukit Bintang on a Saturday night, cars are part of our everyday life here. Yet strangely enough,…
There’s a conspicuous gap on new-car lots around the world where sensible, cheap little hatchbacks used to live. Over the past decade those pocket rockets have been squeezed out by a double whammy: regulators that have steadily tightened crash and…
The good ol’ Londin Bobby has been turning heads this weekend in the in the west of London. In an operation over the weekend, Metropolitan Police and the Motor Insurers’ Bureau (MIB, didn’t Will Smith work there?) impounded 72 high…
The future just arrived, and it hummed softly into port. BYD, in partnership with Sime Motors, has unleashed its newest seafaring beast, the BYD Zhengzhou, a roll-on roll-off (RORO) cargo vessel that can carry up to 7,000 electric vehicles straight…