Power Wheels Magazine A Notch Above

Auto Asia recently opened its new dealership in Sta. Rosa, Laguna that offers the best of Asian automotive technology, which is slated to make waves in the country’s growing motoring landscape. The dealership wants to carve a niche for itself as the “center for quality world-class vehicles either for business or for pleasure” by offering Korean automotive brand SsangYong and Chinese ...

Ferrari has won the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the 36th time. The win was taken by the 488 GTE fielded by AF Corse and driven by Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado and Daniel Serra. The victory is the 27th class win for the Prancing Horse, in addition to nine outright wins, the first one clinched 70 years ago ...

Residents and tourists of Boracay Island will not only get to enjoy one of the world’s best beaches, they will now also get to travel around this tropical paradise in utmost comfort, convenience, and safety on board the modern Isuzu public utility vehicles (PUVs). Isuzu Philippines Corporation (IPC), the country’s manufacturer and distributor of Isuzu commercial vehicles and trucks, turned over ...

We neglected to bring our 2016 Suzuki Ciaz 1.4 GLX A/T to the service workshop of a Suzuki Automobile dealership for its 30,000-kilometer periodic maintenance service (PMS). The odometer on our long-term test unit recently reached the 35,000-kilometer mark so we decided that it’s time to have the PMS performed at the Suzuki Auto Kalookan dealer, located along EDSA, Caloocan ...

Although there had been numerous performance cars from Plymouth, the Chrysler Corporation’s now defunct third car brand, it wasn’t until 1967 that they offered a model that came standard with the necessary performance goodies.   The 1967 Plymouth Belvedere GTX (RS23), which was positioned as “a gentleman’s hot rod”, offered stylish performance for the discriminating buyer.  Introduced as Plymouth’s first unified performance ...

Our 1973 Volkswagen Beetle 1300 S Project Car has been in the JSK Custom Paint and Auto Works garage workshop since February 10, 2019. Now, four and half months after we took the disassembled special Bug from the residence of its owner, Ildenfonso “Fons” Caluag, in Pandacan, Manila to the JSK workshop in Marulas, Valenzuela City, we are finally scheduled to drive ...

One of the fine dining restaurants we indulged ourselves in while we were driving the 2019 Suzuki Vitara GLX CVT on our fun food trip story was Stoned Steaks located at 55 Scout Rallos, Tomas Morato, Barangay Laging Handa, Quezon City. My wife Shawie, our kids Vette and Chevy, and I were invited to dine and get “stoned” by Sue ...

Here’s a fun fact: “Prius” is a Latin word meaning “first”, “original”, “superior” or “to go before”, which is quite apt because the Toyota Motor Corporation was the “first” major car manufacturer to offer a mass-production hybrid electric vehicle (HEV). The “original” body style of the first-generation Toyota Prius (NHW10), which was introduced in 1997, was a 4-door sedan, while ...

Filipino balikbayan (returning resident) and entrepreneur Debbie Anne Macariola-St. John is a woman on a mission. She wants to prevent deaths and injuries caused by traffic accidents, or at the very least, minimize these incidents by warning the drivers and the pedestrians ahead of time. She paints a grim picture of road safety in the city. “Anybody who ventures out into ...

It was our third or fourth time to join the Auto Rally Corporate Challenge (ARCC) organized by Sunshine Television (STV), which is headed by the “dean” of Philippine motoring journalism, Ray Butch Gamboa. On an early Saturday morning (June 15, 2019), my wife Shawie and I found ourselves steering our assigned 2019 GAC Motor GS4 compact sport utility vehicle (SUV) ...