Steel plant explosion halts Toyota Japan production

Toyota Motor Corporation today issued a press statement that it will be stopping production at its Japan domestic plants from February 8 to 13 due to an explosion at a facility belonging to Aichi Steel Corporation on January 8. A Toyota spokesman said in a Reuters...

Proton’s new torque converter CVT not from Punch

Proton’s chief technical officer Abdul Rashid Musa has confirmed to paultan.org that the national carmaker’s new torque converter CVT – to be matched to the company’s upcoming new direct-injected engines, replacing the current start-up clutch units –...

MIMOS concept vehicle set to enter Red Dot Awards

Something along different lines – MIMOS, the national R&D centre in information and communications technology under the purview of the Malaysian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI), has revealed renderings of a concept vehicle, which it...

VIDEO: Mercedes-Benz GLE gets off-road thumbs up

Mercedes-Benz has released a new promotional video for its GLE SUV. The facelifted ML-Class with a new name gets taken off road by Gunther Holzman, a German off-road guide, into a south Albanian valley. Holzman explains that while scenic, off-roading in Albania is no...