No one ever said MME was easy, in fact it is one of the most demanding and challenging form of racing there is, both physically and mentally. That’s why when you do go racing, you have to accept that anything and everything is possible, even an under-performing car can take you to the top 10 while a really fast and reliable car may struggle to complete the race. Read more

Racing requires as much dicipline and dedication as it requires effort, experience and of course, money. Honda is one of the few manufacturers in the world that lives and breaths racing and has been at it ever since Mr. Soichiro Honda first decided that racing is their ‘reason to exist’. Today, nearly 40 years on, Honda boasts one of the most successful and admirable racing team in the history of motor racing.

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Honda Malaysia recently introduced a fully local Honda Malaysia Racing Team (HMRT) with 40 Malaysians and their locally-built Civic Type R race cars numbers 26 and 27 at a party in Kuala Lumpur.

With the motto “Our Challenging Spirit Continues”, the 40 HMRT members and 6 Malaysian drivers are all set to carry on Honda’s trademark “Challenging Spirit” onto the Sepang race tracks this weekend. Known for having the most professional and swift pit stop among all the other teams, HMRT’s aim this year is to capture the Overall Title, in addition to retaining their Class A Title for the 6th consecutive year. Read more

Luckily we live in a hot climate world. I still remember how good it was having a warm, heated seat to sit on in the cold winter months. According to a report titled ‘Heated seats may be frying your sperm’ in New Scientist magazine, sitting on heated seats could ruin your married life – at least the part of it relating to reproduction. Read more

This is what you get when you cross breed a GTR and a 350Z, but thank god it’s only a rendering, for now. See, Nissan’s Z brand currently only has one model, the 350Z. Even that is going to be replaced by the new 370Z and in doing so, it would leave a gap large enough in its product line-up to launch a new model, and according to rumours, maybe even under the historic but discontinued Datsun brand. Read more

This is sad, this is really sad. Everytime I see or ride in our ‘official’ E46 M3 CSL, I secretly vow to own one someday but that is to be no more. A used E46 CSL just won’t work and by the time I could actually afford one, it’ll be obsolete. So news about BMW shelving its plans to create a new CSL kind of hit all the right or should I say wrong spots with my emotions. Read more

Cristiano Ronaldo has forked out GBP150,000 (RM930k) on a new car registration plate – ‘CR7’, representing his initials and shirt numbers for both club and country, the Number 7 he wears for Manchester United and Portugal. Read more

Swedish supercar-maker Koenigsegg is planning a four-door saloon. The company, which makes some of the fastest production cars in the world, is seeking additional funding from the Middle-East region to support the release of a new four-seat saloon. The move would extend ties between the firm and the Gulf as it bids to grow sales to cash-rich local buyers. Read more

BMW is recalling 200,000 units of 3-series, 5-series and X3 models in the USA to fix faulty airbag sensors. The 2006 3-Series and 2004-2006 5-Series and X3 fitted with sports seats are affected; the front passenger seat may develop cracks in its covering and the weight-sensor beneath may be damaged, so the passenger airbag may then not deploy in the event of a crash. Read more

Ingolstadt – For the first time, Audi Sport will offer a racing sports car specifically developed for customer use in the form of the powerful 500 hp plus GT3 version of the Audi R8 which will be available from autumn 2009. The logistics and factory space required for the AUDI AG customer programme will be created over the next few months in Ingolstadt, Neckarsulm and Györ. Read more