So, Proton launched the new Persona sedan last week to boost its overall sales and prop up its ailing business. The competitively-priced sedan ranges from RM46,800 to RM59,800, making it one of the cheapest B-segment sedans available in the Malaysian market. At the launch, Proton CEO Datuk Ahmad Fuaad Kenali said that the national automaker aims to sell 3,000 to 4,000 units of the Persona each month.
Over the past few weeks, we have been teased with pictures of the Maybach 6 concept car. It is without doubt one of the most ridiculously beautiful cars ever, and now, we have had a chance to meet the beastie at the Monterey Car show this past week.
The relentless march of technology would seem to be offering us all sorts of alternatives to the much maligned internal combustion engine. From electric cars and hydrogen fuel cells to maybe fusion cars, mag-lev conveyances and even perpetual-motion cars, it would seem that the days of the good old piston-driven car are numbered.
Six-month-old Dillon Martinez was left in an SUV, parked at a Wal-Mart, for almost nine hours, last Friday. His father had gone to work in the store, having forgotten to drop him off at day care, and returned to find him dead.
An Australian icon is no more after the very last ever Ford Falcon pick-up truck rolled off the assembly line in Broadmeadows, Melbourne recently. This brings an end to the production of the much-loved Aussie ride, of which almost half a million were made in 54 years, since production began in 1961. In Australia, the local name for a pick-up truck is an Ute and the very last one was a white XR6.
Okay, at the risk of sounding like a complete Luddite, there is no way in the world that autonomous cars should be allowed anywhere near a track day, end of story. However, it appears that some of my compatriots over in the UK have set about organising a track day for autonomous cars. I can almost hear you groaning thinking about yet another invasion by the white-coated boffins into the domain that should only be populated by hairy-chested petrol heads.