Month: December 2017
Aftermarket

Nio launches 7-seat electric SUV for just USD67,000

Chinese electric car startup Nio has recently demonstrated its new ES8 SUV to customers in Beijing, with home market sales already under way. It is priced from 448,000 yuan (around £50,500) after government incentives. This ES8 SUV offers comparable specs to a Model X. It’s a full 7-seater, with an all-aluminium body and chassis, air […]

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Launch

Outlander is a 7-seat SUV with legendary 4×4 abilities

With Malaysians showing no signs of reducing their demand for driving a SUV, Mitsubishi has a lot to offer starting with its well presented, compact-sized ASX, its rugged Triton pickup truck with 4×4 and 2×4 options and, of course, its popular family friendly Outlander 7-seat SUV which comes in a 2.0L variant and a 2.4L […]

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Commercial Vehicles

Geely just bought 8.2% of Volvo Trucks

  China’s Geely Holding, which already owns the Volvo Car Group takes a sizeable 8.2% stake in Swedish truck maker AB Volvo from activist investor Cevian Capital for around USD3.3 billion. Volvo Car Group was split from AB Volvo almost 20 years ago and Geely said it was not its current intention to try to […]

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Commercial Vehicles

Scania Unveils Future-oriented City Trucks

Scania has now completed its new truck generation following the introduction of its latest low-carbon transport solutions. “With today’s release, Scania comprehensively sets the stage for the necessary shift towards sustainable transport, offering tailored low-carbon trucks for all transport applications,” says Christian Levin, Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing. The new fuel-efficient future-oriented trucks all […]

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Commercial Vehicles

BMW X3 All Electric, it might be priced below RM299k

The all new BMW X3 will also play a key strategical role in the BMW lineup. This SUV will become the brand’s first combustion engine model to receive a full-electric version, which will compete with the Mercedes-Benz EQC and Audi’s e-tron SUV. The X3 also gets an M-badged high-performance model for the first time in […]

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Aftermarket

Diesel SUV’s & Cars’s Going Into Retirement

Is is too little to late? Car manufacturers say they are taking steps to clean up their diesels. Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz spent 3 billion euros to develop a new family of 4 and 6-cylinder diesels capable of drastically cutting on-road NO2 emissions. By the end of 2019, roughly 80% of all new diesels sold in Germany […]

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Commercial Vehicles

WABCO Invests 10 million USD To Boost Electric Commercial Vehicle Sector

WABCO Holdings Inc. (NYSE: WBC), a leading global supplier of technologies and services that improve the safety, efficiency and connectivity of commercial vehicles, today announced that it has made a $10 million strategic investment in Nikola Motor Company, a leader in the design and manufacturing of hydrogen-electric vehicles, vehicle components, energy storage systems, and electric vehicle drivetrains […]

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Launch Safety & Compliance

Hyundai, Kia, Subaru, Toyota and Mercedes are the safest cars in the world

Most of the TOP SAFETY PICK+ awards go to two manufacturers: Hyundai Motor Co. which owns the Hyundai, Kia and Genesis brands, has six models earning the award, and Subaru has four. Mercedes-Benz has two, while Toyota and Ford Motor Co. have one each. Toyota Motor Corp. has the most vehicles, 10 which is on […]

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Interview Launch

This is the cabin of the NEW G-Class SUV

It is an off-road legend and the ultimate benchmark for so many fans of cross-country driving: the G-Class. Since 1979 more than 300,000 examples of it have allowed their owners to experience adventures that would have been unachievable with any other vehicle. Outwardly, the “G” has changed very little. But in fact this very special […]

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Commercial Vehicles

Renault and Brilliance China to Produce LCV for China Market

Groupe Renault and Brilliance China Automotive Holdings Limited (Brilliance) have confirmed signing a contract for the formation of a joint venture to manufacture and sell light commercial vehicles (LCV) under the Jinbei, Renault and Huasong brands with the goal of achieving 150,000 sales annually by 2022 and an acceleration of electrifying powertrains. The CPC Liaoning […]

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