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…
Honda Motor Co. is returning to Formula One in 2015. As if to herald this much anticipated return to the world’s richest and most prestigious motorsport series, Honda Cars Philippines Inc. (HCPI), Honda’s automobile business unit…
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…
In July four years ago, the Association of Vehicle Importers and Distributors (Avid) was founded by eleven car companies that do not assemble motor vehicles in the Philippines and were therefore relegated to nonvoting associate membership in…
By now, news has gotten around that the Land Transportation Office plans to ban modifications on cars. While it has yet to release specifics, this doesn’t look good for car enthusiasts. Here are some reasons why the…
The Volkswagen Group (Volkswagen, Audi, Bentley and Lamborghini) aims to become the world’s largest automaker and is targeting global sales of 10 million vehicles a year by 2018. Of these 10 million, 800,000 will bear the…
The third-generation Nissan X-Trail that selected Asia-Pacific motoring journalists test drove in Kyushu, Japan, last month not only looks very different from the outgoing model, it also has a raft of new, advanced technological features that Nissan…
Subaru is one of the most exciting yet affordable car brands available in the Philippines as well as the entire Asean region, where it is distributed by Motor Image Inc., a division of Tan Chong International Ltd.…
I just want to say: What the hell is our government thinking now? To be more specific, on the new schemes the Land Transportation Office and Metro Manila Development Authority want to implement. There’s the no-plate, no-travel…
