Friday, July 30, 2010

Ten Interesting Car Facts

Interesting facts on car or the car industry that you might know or not know, so read on!

1. The First Japanese car in the United States was the Honda Accord manufactured in November 1982.

2. The first car used lever instead of steering wheel

3. An airbag takes only 40 milliseconds to inflate after an accident.

4. Ferrari only sells about 14 cars every day.


5. The world's longest traffic hold-up was between Paris and Lyon on the French Autoroute in 1980. it was about 110 miles long.

6. Tata breaks the world records by producing the world's cheapest car, Tata Nano.

7. Windshield wipers were introduced by a woman.


8. The Mclaren F1 was once the fastest car in the world, with 627hp brake horsepower rating.


9. Toyota Corolla has held the record of selling 30 million models before being replaced through Toyota Yaris in 2007. This has been one of the most incredible sales rates in the history of Toyota cars.


10. One of the widest car traveling roads in the world have been the Monumental Axis in Brazil with some of the greater spaces coming over for 160 cars that can drive side by side.

Thursday, July 29, 2010

More women are involved in the auto world?

  • Growing trend of women being responsible for maintaining, getting their cars repaired
  • Women make 65% to 80% of automobile service and maintenance decisions
  • More women tackling aftermarket-oriented tasks, which had previously been nearly the exclusive domain of men

Interested to know more? Read it here

Monday, July 26, 2010

TOC in the News!

We are in the news!!



The first one is in The Star Sunday Education section, a write-up featuring AAM Chairman Tunku Mudzaffar, who came for an offical visit as well as to endorse what we do



The second one is in the July issue of Campus Plus, the hottest FREE campuszine in town. Our trainers and students together with G.Harry Racing Team are featured inside.


Click on the image to read the content!

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Welcome Onboard, New Students!

We would like to give a warmest welcome to our new students of July intake 2010!!



We know all of you are car enthusiasts, very passionate and have high interest in all sorts of cars, therefore choosing automotive education will definitely help to enhance your knowledge towards cars and the latest technology in the automotive industry!

This 2.5 years of education journey in TOC will definitely prove to be beneficial and useful when you go for your Supervised Industrial Training and Internship, and also when you join the work force after you graduate.

We hope you maximise your learning opportunity here at TOC, as you will be provided with many chances to learn and acquire the necessary skills.


Once again, welcome to TOC!