CAR GUYS tend to heavily applaud those that take big chances. So do those that appreciate true design brilliance. These two, surprisingly, don’t come together that often, because what car guys want doesn’t always work that well…
FORD Philippines continues to fire on all cylinders as it achieves its best-ever sales performance. The company rolled out to a strong fourth quarter on the back of a 48-percent year-over-year sales increase in October. The company…
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…
ALTHOUGH I wrote my last motoring column seven months ago (“Time to change gears,” 6/27/15), I still hang around the motoring beat, partly because of the lighthearted moments it sometimes provides and the personalities I get to…
Text and photos by Botchi Santos WHAT is Nissan 360? What is Nissan for that matter? And what is Nismo and Autech? And why, despite now being part of the French Renault Group, does Nissan’s…
THERE are situations when only a full-size sport utility vehicle would do, such as ferrying up to eight passengers in supreme comfort, or towing a large trailer toward a leisure destination. For this class of vehicle, the…
THE SUA or sudden unintended acceleration issue has swept the media like a hurricane. People are up in arms over the situation. Social media is equally ablaze over it, would-be experts and armchair critics posting various “evidences”…
HAPPY 30, Inquirer! Though our own Motoring section was born a year after, in 1986 (making us just a year younger), we share in the celebrations of undoubtedly the Philippines’ most widely read and influential broadsheet. …
THE DIESEL emissions deception scandal that has engulfed Volkswagen, the world’s top-selling automaker, in the United States and Europe is unlikely to affect the sales of diesel-fueled motor vehicles in the Philippines.…
THE AUTOMOTIVE industry has had its share of scandals—not the ones you might see in your e-mail or dubious DVD vendors, but serious ones that can endanger consumer life and limb. …
