Power Wheels Magazine A Notch Above

The iconic 1953-56 Porsche 550 Spyder is often associated with the late American actor and Hollywood icon James Dean. It seems that glamour, speed and danger are part of the racing sports car’s mystique. For the benefit of those who are not in the know, the Porsche 550 is a mid-engine car with an air-cooled horizontally-opposed 4-cylinder engine. It followed ...

To continue our story from yesterday’s Miniature Wheels feature about Chevrolet’s Plastic Fantastic, we leave our 6-cylinder 150-horsepower Pennant Blue 1954 Corvette behind and go over to our V8-powered 290 hp Venetian Red 1957 Corvette. As we mentioned yesterday, these “solid-axle” Corvettes are first-generation cars (C1) that debuted as a roadster in 1953 and underwent several upgrades, starting with a ...

Using a digital conference platform from their head office in Yokohama, Japan, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (NML) unveiled a four-year “transformation plan” to achieve sustainable growth, financial stability and profitability by the end of fiscal year 2023. The plan was designed to shift Nissan’s strategy from its past focus on inflated expansion to its new focus on cost-rationalization and business ...

How do you launch a new automotive product when there is a government ban on public gatherings to avoid the contagion of the deadly Corona virus? How do you set the standards for the New Normal? How do you disseminate the much needed information to your media partners and eventually, to your customers? Sojitz G Auto Philippines (SGAP), the Philippine ...

In 1951, Harley Earl, the head of General Motors’ Styling Section convinced his bosses at GM to build an all-American two-seat sports car. As avid fan of sporting cars, Earl observed that soldiers returning after serving overseas following World War II were bringing home small European sports cars. Earl’s Special Projects crew began working on the new car under the ...

The company is mobilizing its greatest assets: expertise in manufacturing and transportation, and thousands of dedicated employees The COVID-19 pandemic has upended daily life across the globe and challenged everyone to do their part to help save lives. For some of us, it may be things as basic as washing our hands. For others, like health care workers, it means ...

Buick, the “gentleman’s car” division of General Motors, was an unlikely source of some of America’s finest muscle cars. In 1965, they joined the muscle car fray by shoehorning a 400-cubic-inch V8 into their mid-sized Skylark model and called it the “Grand Sport”. In 1968, with the introduction of the new GM A-Body line-up, they shortened the name of their ...

From 1945 to 1947, Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche had the difficult task of steering the small fledging company founded by his father, Dr. Ing. Ferdinand Porsche, who was imprisoned by the Allied forces on December 15, 1945 for alleged war crimes. At the same time, Ferry, as the younger Porsche was known, was working on a new two-seat sports car ...

What is it about the Sixties that some people find so groovy? Besides the outrageous parties, psychedelic clothing, and the phenomenal growth of rock and roll, the ’60s were also the era of iconic automobiles. In our modest collection of scale model cars, I found three miniature sports cars that were born in the late 1960’s and eventually became icons ...

We hope that most of you, our dear readers, opted to stay safe by staying home despite the easing of the government lock down measures. Even with the implementation of the Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (M-ECQ) in Metro Manila and the General Community Quarantine (GCQ) in some provinces, we hope most of you opt to remain home unless it’s absolutely ...