Mahathir's decision to leave the senior leadership largely unchanged appears to be part of a plan to enter into a holding pattern until the UMNO general assembly next year.

CNN: Stirred But Not Shaken

TBM's founder, Anand Sharma, is convinced that the car industry will gradually move to a pattern where most of a car will be made in modules that are simply snapped together in small assembly lines close to the consumer, where details can be adapted to local tastes.

ECONOMIST: Car manufacturing