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Published on August 18th, 2009

It was a blissful birthday for Wayne Shen on 17th August as the birthday boy cashed in on lady luck to bag Round 10 of the GT3 Asia championship at Sentul International Circuit in Indonesia. Playing bridesmaid on the rolling starting grid, W.Shen was sandwiched between pole-sitter and Modena Motorsports teammate Francis Tjia and Tunku Hammam. As the race kicked »

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Published on August 17th, 2009

I wanted to talk about the fashion show I attended on Sunday but my editor told me to get out of the office and buy him some food, and I forgot what I wanted to write. So I’m not going to talk about the fashion show or the babeliciously delicious and flirtatious goody-goody-two-shoes cuties that were present at the show. »

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Published on August 12th, 2009

As usual, the Republic of Photographers who calls Sepang their second home, embracing the hazy sunshine and fantastic almost bare-naked ladies, prowls the pitlanes and the grid area for a few shots of the starting grid and, well, the almost bare-naked ladies. Trafficmag’s photographers were no exception to this common behaviour, except that we will be looking at them almost »

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Published on August 12th, 2009

Typically, most Japanese car makers will give their models a mid-life cycle injection of life to renew and invigorate interest in their models. The changes could sometimes fill the Dead Sea Scrolls twice over just about cover one side of a Post-It note. That time has come for Mitsubishi Motors Malaysia (MMM) to do just that for their Lancer 2.0 »

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Published on August 11th, 2009

Lame headings aside, the local automotive lubricant sector is an intensively competitive market that even sees the bigwigs struggling to hold down a firm standing. We’ve all heard the line before; engine oil is to a vehicle’s engine as blood is to our bodies. That’s where there big brake kits bring the similarities to a screeching halt. While we may »

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Published on August 10th, 2009

It was freaking cold morning and I didn’t get enough sleep, but it was August 8th, and it was MMER day. The 12 hours Merdeka Milennium Endurance Race was being held in Sepang that very day and I decided to take my scooter there to make our lives a lot easier going around the track. No, I couldn’t take the »

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Published on August 9th, 2009

It’s a quietly understood and accepted notion that if we don’t cut down on our use of the dinosaurs’ remains, the earth will turn into a Turkish bath and we will all roast to death, or so the politicians and tree-huggers want us to believe. No doubt there is more than an ounce of truth to those statements and heed »

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Published on August 6th, 2009

As far as pure unadultered driving goes, the Mazda MX-5 Miata not just wrote the book on it, it went on and won a Pulitzer for it as well.   Not content with that, the roadster also wears the tag of the world’s best selling sports car and to celebrate its fast approaching 20th birthday, Mazda has put on their nostalgic glasses »

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