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11 July 2011 - Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd, the company that manufactures Subaru vehicles, has inked a memorandum of understanding with Motor Image, the official Subaru distributor wholly owned by the Tan Chong Group, to make Malaysia the manufacturing hub for the ASEAN region.

08 July 2011 - The last of the last generation Myvi is still on sale in the UK, and in fact from the image above you can see that the UK market Myvi is still the first generation pre-facelift model, the design that the compact had before it was facelifted in 2008. 

05 July 2011 - Proton has officially announced All New Proton Model will come with CVT Gearbox Option ‘ In The Near Future ‘, without providing details on the timeline. To be made available as an option alongside the current four-speed automatic gearbox, the CVT gearbox boasts a number of benefits over a conventional automatic gearbox centering mainly on driving smoothness and overall efficiency.

03 July 2011 - Hyundai-Sime Darby Motors (HSDM) has been named Distributor of the Year 2010 by Hyundai Motor Company (HMC) at the recent 2011 Global Distributors Convention held in Banff, Canada. Hyundai-Sime Darby Motors Sdn Bhd (HSDM) came out tops among more than 30 Hyundai Motor Company (HMC)'s global distributors last year .

01 July 2011 - The automotive industry is quickly embracing turbocharging technology for gasoline engines which was once relegated to sports cars and luxury vehicles in an effort to improve fuel efficiency. Now vehicles ranging from "lowly" Chevrolet Cruze compact sedans to Ford F-150s (as witnessed by our article earlier today) are jumping on the bandwagon.

30 June 2011 - Now, the Toyota Vios range numbers six variants. UMW Toyota Motor has launched the 2011 Toyota Vios facelift and the Toyota Vios 1.5G Limited, an all-new variant positioned between the Vios 1.5G and TRD Sportivo variants. With almost 200,000 units snapped up by Malaysians since its introduction, 33,700 units of which were sold in 2010, the Vios is Malaysia’s best-selling non-national car.