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

So it continues, the Type R amazed some us here at Zerotohundred.com but it left the rest all wound up over whether or not it’s worth all that hype and money. Throughout the entire week we had it, there were numerous arguments and convincing sessions but none got settled. Something had to be done, such a hot topic could not be left undone, a neutral figure would have to be brought in. Read more

Previously known as SkunkWorks, the American aftermarket parts manufacturer and tuner recently rebranded itself and is now known as Skunk2. They have been churning out performance parts for Honda’s since the mid 90’s. They are known to go racing which they use as a platform to develop and test new products and like very few other performance parts manufacturer, they have an advanced R & D facility only found in the dreams of most engineers. Read more

Lets face it, the world is a much filthier place than it was 20 years ago and everyone is to blame though us motorist get most of the rap. I don’t quite understand that though considering that a 747 flying across the Atlantic emits much more pollution than an entire season of Formula 1 combined. Read more

As much as we Malaysians complain about our beloved country, we truly are a lucky bunch. We have some of the best roads this side of the world, lenient traffic police that we still complain about anyway even as we cruise down our ‘ways at 160km/h, and we have access to some of the best cars in the world if money is no object. Read more

Honda’s 3S Campaign is back! Honda Malaysia today announced that all 53 Honda authorized dealers throughout Malaysia will be participating in the Honda 3S Campaign which starts 1st July 2008 till 30th September 2008.

“Experience Honda 3S Campaign” aims to reward anyone who steps into any Honda authorized dealers to experience the sales, service and spare parts services; whether its to test-drive a Honda, service your car or make a purchase. 3S stands for sales, service and spare parts. Honda’s 3S centers provide sales, service, spare parts and body repair services under one roof thus allowing customers to experience its new products while perusing the after-sales facilities available; all to their convenience. Read more

Racing is a timeless sport and has existed for as long as anyone can remember, many have emerged champions, more have emerged loosers, but the sport still garners a massive following of racers and fans alike. Over the years, racing has transformed from a white knuckle suicidal sport for everybody who could afford a car to a world class billion dollar industry open for only those who can afford it, or are well connected with potential sponsors. Read more

Found this article while surfing for content, in times where experts and auto makers are rallying for mass adoption of Hybrid systems, this article suggests otherwise, contradicting popular belief it even proves that diesel energy is the more economical of the two and perhaps even less pollutant, but Malaysians make do with low quality diesel. While the world has moved on past Euro 3 rating, we are just about to adopt it, so don’t get too excited about diesel here. Read more

Honda has trusted us with one of their most technologically advanced products ever, the Civic Hybrid and by the time you read this, we will probably be on our way to Penang having already done Port Dickson and Cameron Highlands. Read more

As promised, here’s the interview session with the chief engineer behind the world saving Civic Hybrid, Mr Yoshio Yamamoto. Mr Yamamoto recently flew down from the Japan for the media session. Well, leaving his office at the Honda Automobile R&D Center in Japan for a media session seems Read more