A young Malaysians made Malaysia proud when winning the silver award category in the Toyota Dream Car Art Global Contest in Japan recently. Eleven-year old Miss Lim Xiao Yun innovative idea was one out of 830,000 entries from 79 countries which participated in the annual contest.

The contest was held on 23 August 2017 at the Toyota’s Mega Web vehicle experience facility in Tokyo. Another young Malaysian was also lucky to be one of the selected few finalists, Miss Choo Han Yean, just seven years of age.

The dream car art competition is open to 3 categories of young participants. After the selection process, 30 junior artists with innovative and futuristic dream car ideas, 10 each from the three categories were chosen for the global competition.  The Toyota Dream Car Art event is also dubbed as a world largest art contest.

Miss Lim developed a dream car art under the theme “My Save Our Earth Dream Car” which aimed at protecting the earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation from the sun. She remarked that “Without the protection of the ozone layer, biodiverse life will not be possible on earth but my dream car will protect the ozone belt. Our earth also faces other threats, but my dream car with its futuristic technology will divert meteorites and waste material falling off from the sky.”