Bylines Carl Cunanan

Game-changers that shaped 30 years of PH motoring

IF YOU think about what we were all driving and buying 30 years ago, it was a pretty bleak automotive landscape compared to what we are now able to enjoy.   For one thing, there were far…

Extraordinary dash clock for the Bentley Bentayga

BENTLEY recently launched a really neat clock—with an ultraluxury SUV wrapped around it. In the continuing partnership with watch company Breitling, the new Bentley Bentayga will allow you to have, if you so wish, a self-winding tourbillion…

Driving the future: Toyota Mirai fuel-cell car

MY 9-YEAR-OLD daughter and I were in the car on the way to school, and we were talking about the car we were in (an Audi S3) which she particularly liked mainly because the seatbelt went down…

TNGA aims to make people’s lives better

YOU MIGHT easily dismiss Toyota’s use of the phrase “Toyota’s New Generation Architecture” as something small made up to look like something big, but you would be wrong. …

Power to the people: should every car be a sports car?

IT SOMETIMES surprises people just how much time is spent in airports as part of a job that basically was created just to spend time in small noisy sports cars. Having said that, it is also interesting…

Sculpting the air with the Ferrari 488 GTB

When Italians talk about art, they do so from a rather unique perspective. They are, after all surrounded by the art, craftsmanship and passion that the rest of the world considers defining. Even the atmosphere traveling from…

Ford has built the EcoBoost engine to be the motor of choice for a wide variety of vehicles

  MUCH has been made of Ford and the EcoBoost technology it is using to bring its vehicles into the world we now need. This technology is now available and used in several continents all over the…

New Lexus ES: quiet elegance, but with a new boldness

Progressive luxury. This isn’t a term you hear all that often, yet it explains a lot, most especially when tied to something that kind of nails the concept right on the head. Toshio Asahi, chief engineer of…

Porsche Boxster: balance is bliss

I have a rather long-standing love affair with the Porsche Boxster, which is only made more intense with its latest offering. When the little Porsche first came out, it had the rather unenviable position of being pit…

BMW wins International Engine of the Year Award

Things changed and things stayed the same this year at the 17th  International Engine of the Year Awards held this June in Stuttgart, Germany. The winners in the different categories this year were those that blended high-end…

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