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Why World Car Design of the Year 2020 winner Mazda3 should be your next car

Mazda has been on a roll lately. The current and greatly admired 4th generation ND Miata MX-5 won the hearts and minds of enthusiasts when it was launched in 2015, and updated in 2018. It captured the…

The New Normal: life after ECQ

After four weeks of quarantine and responsibly staying home, we have seen the upside of the world going on vacation. Clear blue skies and ocean waters clearing up are proofs that the world is healing itself. To…

How to stay sane during quarantine

As the world remains at a standstill for the second straight week, a lot of people are starting to feel cabin fever. I’m seeing lots of Memes about the difficulties of homeschooling, overexposure to your partners or…

Geely Coolray Sport DCT: Chinese and desirable

There are cheap China cars (there are over 1,000 registered car brands in China apparently), then there is the Geely Coolray, perhaps the most desirable looking, premium-feeling, clean and classy China-branded and China-made car on the market…

Samar down the road

The recent declaration of the Covid-19 pandemic has thrown motorshows, car launches, travel plans, and even daily routines in disarray. But in this sunny southern archipelago, the safest place to be is in Mother Nature’s bosom for…

Nissan 370Z: real-wheel Zenith

In a nation where the vast driving generation is so accustomed to front-wheel drive, here comes Nissan unveiling a rear-wheel drive living legend—the 370Z—made it available to the local market complete with full factory support and warranty.…

Isuzu mu-X Boondock Edition: the SUV segment’s best kept secret

While the Isuzu mu-X is old, and a replacement due soon, that’s not to say it isn’t any good or any less of a competent, capable vehicle. Case in point: the Isuzu mu-X Boondock Edition. Thanks to…

Applying learnings from the Women of EO into our daily drives

March is International Women’s Month. Time when women all over the world are celebrating their empowerment and achievements. Messages of encouragement, positivism, support and call to lift each other instead of pulling each other down are flooding…

Dominant species

So you’re leaning towards acquiring a pickup truck that’d be capable of taking you where the paths aren’t flat, even, stable, or where there isn’t a path at all. That after all, is the essence of going…

‘HR-vegan’

My last (fond) memory of driving Honda’s compact crossover HR-V was that of me trying to keep up with the frenetic pace of the motoring media convoy that was going up the notoriously twisty and steep 12-kilometer…