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Seow Yaohan | May 24, 2012
Toyota has regained its number one automaker position for the first three months of 2012, shipping 2.49 million vehicles across four brands: Toyota, Lexus, Daihatsu and Hino. Second position goes to previous leader General Motors which is not far behind with 2.28 million, and Volkswagen ...
Seow Yaohan | May 23, 2012
General Motors “unliked” Facebook ads in a public announcement a day before the social media's IPO last week, pulling out all advertising budget on Facebook because the returns—measured in clicks per page view—are lower compared with the average website, and much lower than what ...
Toyota Motor Corporation and Tesla Motors, an automaker specialising in electric vehicles including the full-electric Tesla Roadster, have formed a strategic alliance to cooperate on the development and production of electric vehicles. The deal involves Toyota investing USD 50 million in Tesla, while ...
Seow Yaohan | April 14, 2010
General Motors has announced plans to introduce 25 all-new and updated models by the end of 2011. Having teamed up with Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) to form Shanghai General Motors, GM is currently the largest foreign automaker in China, a market that ...
Seow Yaohan | January 5, 2010
Who's benefiting the most from China's fast-growing car industry, which sold more than one million vehicles in both September and October of 2009? That will naturally be the largest automotive player in China—General Motors. Annual sales growth of 67 percent means that GM's market ...
Seow Yaohan | January 2, 2010
It is past December 31, but lucky for Saab and its loyal followers, the Swedish automaker is still alive, thanks to General Motors' last-minute change of mind. Hours before the scheduled plan to shut down Saab, GM surprisingly announced that the production lines will instead ...
Seow Yaohan | December 30, 2009
After more than two years of collaboration, General Motors, via its wholly-owned subsidiary General Motors Asia Pacific Holding Co LLC (GMAP), and DRB-HICOM Bhd have decided to part ways, ending the joint venture in Malaysia from January 1, 2010.
With GM holding ...
Seow Yaohan | December 29, 2009
If you think Malaysia's hefty excise duty, which contributes directly to the sky-high car prices over here, is not only unreasonable but unnecessary, then know that we are far from being the worst. Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez has demanded that foreign automakers with ...
Seow Yaohan | December 21, 2009
Despite General Motors' announcement that the Saab brand is dead, which must have brought a couple of Swedish tears, it seems the end is not quite finalised just as yet. Dutch supercar manufacturer Spyker, which had an official bid on the table before GM's sudden ...
Seow Yaohan | December 17, 2009
Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Co. (BAIC) has bought the rights and technology for the current 9-3 and 9-5 models, as well as certain powertrain technologies, for USD 197 million (RM 677 million). This sum of money can, however, sustain no more than ...
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