Random thoughts on policies
Some of you may have noticed there has been some kind of shift in the prices of import marques in Malaysia, and also the way they are brought in - whether CKD …
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Letter: Proton in the UK
Here is a letter sent in by Kumaresan Balakrishnan, a student from Johor Bahru currently studying in the UK. He shares with us a little about Proton cars in the UK. I …
Mercedes Benz Inline-4 engines: M266 vs M271
I've been wondering about one thing for quite sometime now. Why isn't Mercedes Benz putting the M266 into more of it's cars? Where does the engine come from? Is it a Mercedes …
50 Posts to Independence No.24
Having been tagged by the country's number one cyber-patriot, the ever-entertaining but often-misunderstood Daft Oi to post up entry No.24 in Nizam Bashir's 50 Posts to Independence project, I have decided to …
Analyzing fuel quality in Malaysia – 3 out of 6 already Euro II compliant for petrol!
First of all, thanks to Mat Kamil Awang for the pointer to these documents. The source for the data I am going to use in this article is from a Japanese site …
Happy CNY to all: Firecracker Worries
Happy Chinese New Year of the Boar to everyone. Hope you had a good time. Me? For personal reasons, there's not much celebrations going on except for the exchanging of ang pows, …
Johor Motor Sales
With the recent floods in Johor, you can safely say that many people are picking up the pieces and putting their lives back on track. Buying a new car might be the …
E-plate to be available at JPJ-appointed dealers
There has been some followup news on the e-plate system, basically a wireless RFID MyKad-like system for cars announced in mid-December 2006. The e-plate system is part of the government's Automated Enforcement …
Valeo has customers for half camless engine
French automotive engineering company Valeo says that it's camless engine development project will likely be ready by 2010 or 2011, and it already has a few customers working together with them, though …
LMG Tourer with Hydroxene technology
Some of you may remember a piece of news in July where a team of Universiti Sains Malaysia researches led by Dr Syamsul Rizal Abd Shukor came up with a way to …
Happy New Year 2006
I'd like to wish all my readers a happy new year. 2005 has been an interesting year for the automotive industry. Pretty exciting. We had new launches from both our largest national …
National Automotive Policy draft tomorrow
There are a lot of people who feel that we just shouldn't have had an automotive industry in the first place. Since Proton's birth in 1983, the normal rakyat with average income …
Google Wifi
Google has launched a free Wi-Fi service in San Fransisco. Together with it's Wi-Fi service, it has also launched a free VPN service so that Wi-Fi users can encrypt their over-the-air data. …
The Korean Advantage
Hyundai builds 4 million vehicles annually today. By 2007, output is expected to be 5.5 million vehicles. Proton? Production is now shy of 200,000 cars a year. 178,431 sounds about right. Perodua? …
Proton vs. MITI, Round 3
Jeff Ooi already has a very detailed coverage on the latest updates on the Proton vs. MITI saga, so I'm not going to talk much about it. More time for me to …
Petrol Price Hike a Hoax, but Inevitable?
Went to survey the new petrol prices at Petronas ten minutes ago, at 12:40AM. Wanted to pump my car's tank to a full tank with the new price as I was lazy …
