Cars are all around us, even rare car brands. The Internet and social media have made these much more real, thanks to countless images as well as technical specifications littered in cyberspace. However, seeing cars in the…
NISSAN’S all-new Navara, launched on February 2, is the automaker’s most hotly anticipated vehicle for 2015. Nissan is rightly proud of the all-new pickup, boasting class-leading technical specifications and improvements over its predecessor. Under a revised stewardship…
RECENTLY, I had the opportunity to travel to a very cold place, officially the coldest place I had ever been to, for a cross-country test drive. (Land Rover had invited me to sample the all-new Discovery Sport…
When ACEI, Volkswagen’s Philippine distributor, started hyping up the release and eventual sales of the Volkswagen’s second-generation new Beetle, I wasn’t one of its fans. In fact, I was very critical about ACEI brandishing a very old…
I remember the very first time I rode a proper MPV. It was a Renault Espace, which I rode during a holiday to France in 2001. I had read about it in car magazines, but to actually…
WITH THE automotive industry booming in recent years and with 2015’s rumored industry sales projection to breach the 300,000 unit, the situation presents itself with a few problems. Admittedly, these are good problems to have. Nonetheless, these…
ONE OF the quiet entries into the Philippine automotive market was Toyota’s FJ Cruiser, slipping without much fanfare in dealerships in the last months of 2013 as a 2014 model.…
A candle that burns twice as bright lasts half as long. That adage holds very true for cars as well. Car tuning and modifying involves compromise and trade-offs. If we increase the output of an engine,…
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…
THE YEAR 2014 WILL always be remembered as a banner year for the motoring industry. Numerous cars were launched, many industry milestones were hit, and the market not only grew with it, but also evolved into a…
