Photos by Tessa R. Salazar The Korean marque Kia has certainly gone a long way from its origins in South Korea nearly eight decades ago. From merely making metal tubes, the Kia brand is now among the…
As the Philippine Daily Inquirer broadsheet celebrates 34 years, our very own Motoring section passes its 33rd. We started our own wheels rolling a month after the Edsa People Power Revolution (the first Motoring page with the…
Thanks to social media and the modern communications technologies behind it, bad behavior—and even the noble ones—are given the widest public exposure possible. We see these examples of bad behavior all over our wired world. The two…
Photos by Tessa R. Salazar Not even the threat of incoming typhoon “Ramon” could stop the 50,000th tree from being planted. Fortunately, this typhoon slowed down and changed course, enough to provide some dedicated volunteers the good…
We’ve gotten so used to seeing pickup trucks running around in the concrete jungles that we’ve sometimes forgotten what pickups were really made for. Some pickups have been so “dressed to the nines” for docile urban uses…
Auto experts have been describing Mazda as the “David amongst the Goliaths,” the giants here being the likes of Toyota and Nissan. And it’s hard not to root for the “little guy.” Apparently, Mazda has been relishing…
Eight years ago, local motoring scribes were toured around the 82-hectare Toyota Motor Philippines (TMP) plant in Sta. Rosa City, Laguna. We thought then that we already left the plant grounds when we entered a forested area,…
Is it possible to admire an idea, a concept, or a person, before actually seeing and feeling the object, experiencing the idea, and meeting the person? Celebrity and stardom prove this can be so. Showbusiness personalities are…
No other island or province in the Philippines puts such a not-so-subtle hint right in its very name. When you say Camiguin, others within earshot would tend to cup their ears and ask, “Did you mean, ’come…
The “oohs” and “aahs” we heaped upon Siquijor Island was also interspersed with my “aaieeh!” not because I saw “aswangs” and other supernatural beings the place was rumored to have, but like anywhere else in this naturally…
