Drives

BMW 235i: a touch of M

Beauty always comes with a price. As Britney sings it, “You wanna hot body, You wanna Bugatti, You wanna Maserati, You better work b--ch.”…

Love Volvo’s Swedish build: V40 first drive

Volvo’s fairytale history has been told once in this corner of your favorite paper. The story, which began in the 1920s in marble-corridored “Castle Volvo” atop a rocky, rainy outcrop outside Gothenburg in Sweden, continues to this…

Honda Brio and Suzuki Swift: A Comparo

The year 2014 was noted for the cutthroat competition for market share among mini compact automobiles, highlighted by the entry of the Toyota Wigo, which subsequently overtook the Mitsubishi Mirage in terms of sales.…

VW Beetle 1.4 TSI DSG: smitten by the bug

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…

Driving the new Ferrari California T gran turismo

Any day that you can drive a Ferrari is bound to be a good one. And when that Ferrari is the latest from Maranello, it is a special day indeed. So it was on Saturday morning, when…

Kia Carens EX: the car for the future

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…

2015 Hyundai Sonata: Refined aesthetics, quiet efficiency

When will Hyundai stop surprising us? In 2009 at the Los Angeles Auto Show, Hyundai Motor startled the world by unveiling the sixth generation Sonata with a spectacular Fluidic Sculpture styling that set it far apart from…

Volvo XC60: smart, spacious and safe

VOLVO HAS an ambitious goal: to ensure that, by 2020, no one would be killed or seriously injured in a Volvo car.…

Trailblazer Drive Series visits Baler

HOW DO you improve on a test drive experience?…

Toyota’s charming brute: FJ Cruiser

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.…

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