Type R thrills at the track
SEVEN minutes, 43.8 seconds. That was the lap time set in April last year by the 2017 Honda Civic Type R at Germany鈥檚 legendary...
Crossovers, eVs, and performance pieces
By Kap Maceda Aguila
FOR 11 days until the 18th of this month, Switzerland again becomes the center of the automotive world with the staging...
Dashboard (03/14/18)
Xpander bookings to come with GoPro
MITSUBISHI Motors Philippines Corp. (MMPC), which on March 1 launched the Mitsubishi Xpander, announced it has started accepting reservations...
One automaker is still working on its diesel technology
By Vernon B. Sarne
When the World Health Organization鈥檚 International Agency for Research on Cancer officially classified diesel exhaust as carcinogenic -- or cancer-causing, to put it bluntly...
The case for electric cars (or what鈥檚 it like to drive Nissan EVs)
By Brian M. Afuang
A RECENT Nissan Motor symposium held in Singapore saw the car maker pitching its electric-powered mobility initiatives in this part of...
Expanded territory
Text and photos by Aries B. Espinosa
THE hype that had been brewing since late last year was finally served hot and fresh on the...
鈥楧emocratizing鈥 auto servicing
By Kap Maceda Aguila
MANY car owners get antsy about taking their cars to a 鈥渃asa,鈥 owing to prohibitively priced services and parts, yet are...
Vehicles for visual art
BMW PIONEERED turning cars into proper artworks -- as opposed to cars merely being described as 鈥渨orks of art,鈥 or 鈥渞olling sculptures,鈥 even if...
Corporate culture makes or breaks the brand
By Vernon B. Sarne
When I went to Taiwan last week upon the invitation of the Dutch truck manufacturer DAF, the first order of the day was a...
Porsche鈥檚 posh hatch purveys more space, tech
Text and photos by Kap Maceda Aguila
PORSCHE registered another banner year in 2017 -- shipping 246,375 vehicles to its growing stable of customers around...
The buzz on the Benz bus
Text and photos by Aries B. Espinosa
FILIPINO commuters will soon have something to look forward to in their daily grind to and from work....
Isuzu pickup dons active wear, SUV goes dressy
THE two-wheel-drive variants of Isuzu鈥檚 pickup and SUV have new special renditions.
Freshly released by Isuzu Philippines Corp. (IPC) on Feb. 23 were the new...