If the recent sales by BMW Malaysia are anything to go by, we know the games have just begun. With over 4,500 CKD Hybrids sold here in Malaysia, it not only makes these guys the numero uno among ASEAN countries, but also fifth worldwide. Now, that’s a pretty awesome feat considering the size of our population. In fact, worldwide sales for the first three quarters of 2017 surpassed the whole total of 2016.
Choosing between ride-hailing and owning your own car is like choosing between an apple and an orange for your health—one is no better than the other. Both offer different benefits to the end-user. There are many and more arguments brought forward by the exponents of both sides. And in recent years, with the rise of ride-hailing apps, the debate has gotten louder.
In a typical brash stroke of a legislature’s pen, the good folks of Singapore will be forbidden from purchasing a new car in the Island Republic—well, at least from February 2018 until 2021—in a bid to ease the alleged chronic traffic and to stop the island from being overrun with vehicles. Singapore already was one of the most difficult and expensive places on earth to own a car, with a typical four-door sedan costing more than four times as much as an equivalent model in the US of A, but now the car-hating republic has gone one step further.
I feel like a rant coming on. I am getting completely fed-up with big government issuing directives that petrol power is coming to an end and we are all facing a future of insipid electric-powered driving. Well, who the heck are they to tell us, the consumer, what we want ten years before we want it?
Automologist LING spends more time looking for her car than she’d like to admit. Just recently, after saying goodbye to my friend whom I had dinner with at a mall, she texted me awhile later to check if I had…
Today marks the end of an era. The moment finally arrived as the very last car to be manufactured in Australia will roll off the production line. This is not some ordinary factory closure for the legion of fans that plan to park outside the gates of the Adelaide factory. This is the end of a glorious era of overpowered Aussie-style muscle cars, designed by Australians to meet the rugged and extreme conditions of the Australian continent.