Forget the Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Maseratis. Here are three motor vehicles, launched this year, that I picked for their practicality and/or fun-to-drive element, not for the elitist glamor that comes with owning an astronomically priced luxury super…
With the New Year comes resolutions that, hopefully, won’t go to waste. It’s always a fresh start, full of hope, a desire to do better and achieve milestones in our lives, be it in the areas of…
Last year, we purchased an 11-seater van to accommodate our road trip needs. We were a family of five, with one child traveling in a car seat, a nanny, the family driver, and more often than not,…
Our Department of Trade and Industry can learn a thing or two from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China’s top economic planning agency, which found foreign carmakers to be overcharging Chinese consumers in violation of…
2015 is just around the corner and with it, the integration of the economies of ten Southeast Asian nations including the Philippines into the Asean (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Economic Community (AEC). For each of the…
A question often asked by many is: What is the best transmission? The answer really is: It depends. …
Whenever the Nissan Sentra is mentioned, the first thing that comes to mind is a taxicab or a dowdy entry-level compact sedan. All that is changing now that the Sylphy, the Sentra’s presumed successor in the keenly…
Coming from last week’s column about the Porsche Sport Driving School, I mentioned that I got a brief ride in Porsche’s latest hypercar, the 918 Spyder.…
Who doesn’t love track days? When you get to go on the track and drive flat-out, sampling some of the finest four-wheeled machines in the world and experiencing their performance and technology working perfectly together in a…
Despite stricter Bureau of Internal Revenue compliance regulations on luxury items, sales of premium luxury vehicles are slowly but surely growing. The latest entrant into the compact luxury sedan segment is Audi’s A3 Sedan. This is Audi’s…
