The early 1980s saw the end of the European Fords for the Malaysian market as the automaker had decided to team up with Mazda to share certain models. Ford required the manufacturing efficiency and lower production costs of the...
Wearne Brothers was founded in 1906 by two Australian brothers and specialised in automobile engineering and imports. It started off in Singapore as one of the early distributors of cars, its first brand being Oldsmobile. Later, it also expanded...
This advertisement is very rare; in fact, it only appeared in one publication once and that was the official guidebook of the 1990 KL International Motor Show. Auto Bavaria was one of the exhibitors who had special advertisements done...
This is the first of series of pictures looking back at past KLIMS events. We start with the show held in 2000 at the Putra World Trade Centre. Among the highlights were the Proton Satria Convertible prototype and TD...
In 1985, when the Proton Saga appeared on the road for the very first time, it attracted a great deal of attention. Passers-by would stop to take a closer look at the first Malaysian National Car.
39 years later, another...
Historically, the sedan bodystyle has been the most popular in the Malaysian market. Perhaps it’s due to the fact that this bodystyle (also referred to as ‘3-box’) was the one most extensively offered by automakers before hatchbacks started to...
“If Toyota or other Japanese manufacturers had concentrated on making large automobiles like the American ones, World War III might have started!”
It was 1983 and the person who made the statement, more as a joke, was Hiroshi Okuda, then...
Lucky policemen in some countries have had sportscars to use for their duties and in Japan in the 1970s, the police force had the Mazda Cosmo Sport which had a Wankel rotary engine.
The Cosmo Sport's 982 cc engine had...
The first SUVs (as opposed to the earlier 4x4 vehicles which were more workhorse in character) appeared in the early 1980s and their popularity kept growing. During the 1990s, demand for SUVs rose in far greater numbers that other...
Hagerty UK, which specialises in classic car and bike insurance, organises many activities for car enthusiasts and one of these is a rather unusual event – the annual Hagerty Festival of the Unexceptional.
The Festival of the Unexceptional (FOTU) began...
Automakers have been creating concept cars since the 1940s. These design studies usually preview future models or technologies and are attractions at motorshows. Virtually every automaker – even our own Perodua and Proton – have come out with their...
Auto Union AG, the merger of Audi, DKW, Horch, and Wanderer in 1932, was a well known participant in motorsport in the 1930s, especially Grands Prix. Its Silver Arrows became legendary as pioneering racing cars, setting records that took...
