Feature Stories · Page 17
We’re now only a couple of weeks away from the April 1 implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in Malaysia. Much has been said, rumoured and conjectured since the new …
Photos of a locally-registered Rolls-Royce Ghost bearing a shocking RM54,502 road tax disc (included below) went viral on social media platforms yesterday. A yearly road tax worth the price of a brand …
The proposed 110 km/h hard cap via the use of speed limiting devices that surfaced yesterday sure raised a lot of commotion among Malaysian motorists. Now this is an idea that would …
"Should I use RON 95 or go for the more expensive RON 97 fuel?" That’s a very common question among our readers and general Malaysian motorists alike. Needless to say, there are …
The last time I was at Sepang, it involved yours truly driving (rather carelessly) around the famed circuit in a Lamborghini Huracan - an experience that was equally enjoyable as it was …
So here we are once again, rounding up the year that was with the paultan.org 2014 Top Five list - as with previous editions in 2012 and 2013, the writers each pick …
It started out as a whimsical thought, voiced by Jonathan James Tan during one of our discussions months ago. "Why don't we come up with a story where we write about our …
Unlike many school kids, I've only ever ponteng class once in my schooling years. A couple of friends and I got word that the nearest Shell station was chockfull of Ferraris for …
It was the Clio RS that stopped people in their tracks. Which was a surprise. In the cold light of day, the five-door, pencil-sharpened hatch looks a bit strange, oddly unadorned; but …
Ford and Australia are very much intertwined – the association stretches nearly ninety years now, and has seen CKD assembly from humble beginnings evolve into the design and manufacture of homegrown, market-specific …
After a hiatus, it's finally back – the 2014 Malaysian edition of Ford's Driving Skills for Life (DSFL) campaign kicked off last weekend, December 13 and 14, at the Malaysian Agro Exposition …
Automobiles Peugeot and its official local distributor Nasim recently rolled out the brand’s first-ever defensive driving programme in Malaysia. Dubbed Peugeot Driving Performance (PDP), the event was the first of its kind …
A “Youth First Vehicle Scheme” was proposed by Umno youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin last week, where the idea is that young people earning under RM4,000 a month can buy their first car …
Either road rage seems to be a serious issue that’s on a rise lately, or we’re just hearing more of the incidents that happen everyday thanks to the prevalence of easy to …
A father of a 15 month old boy in the US was charged with negligent homicide recently. The victim was his son. He was supposed to take him to day care. But …
At the Perodua headquarters in Rawang, we spotted two pristine examples of the Perodua Kancil. The red model is the first car to roll off the company's assembly line, while the newer …
The longer I own it, the more I realise that the Honda CR-Z fits my needs perfectly. Cars with a good ol' manual gearbox are hard enough to find in Malaysia, so …
It’s hard to measure advancement without proper context. This is doubly true for the new Perodua Axia. It’s easy to look down on a car as relatively cheap and basic as this. …
When it comes to illustrating just how much a new model has changed, we know few methods can beat lining it up alongside its immediate predecessor. So we decided to give the …
This year is shaping up a lot to be like the year 2005. If you recall, it was then that both Proton and Perodua decided to launch small hatchbacks, and despite the …
