Power Wheels Magazine A Notch Above

With the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) extended until the 15th of May, it’ll be some time before we can all go out, enjoy each other’s company, and watch a movie together. It’ll be a while before we will be allowed to gather as a crowd in a cinema or a concert. In the mean time, we can surf Netflix or, ...

The 1964 Aston Martin DB5 is perhaps the most famous and most recognized automobile of the famous movie spy franchise, James Bond. The DB5 first appeared in Goldfinger (1964), and then in Thunderball (1965), GoldenEye (1995), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), Casino Royale (2006), Skyfall (2012), and Spectre (2015). Powered by a 282-horsepower all-aluminum 4.0-liter DOHC inline 6-cylinder engine with three ...

The Jaguar XK-E is a British sports car that was introduced in 1961 and manufactured until 1975. With its good looks, high performance, and affordable pricing, the E-Type, as it is more popularly known, became an icon of the ‘60s, prompting even the great Enzo Ferrari to call it as “the most beautiful car ever made”. Road & Track magazine’s ...

Valentino Rossi is widely considered as one of the greatest motorcycle racers of all time. With nine World Championships – seven in the premier Motorcycle Grand Prix or MotoGP class – Rossi is the only road racer to have competed in more than 400 Grand Prix races. He has ridden with the number 46 his entire career, shunning the traditional ...

There’s something about Vespa scooters that attracts us like no other lover. Err…sorry, but we can’t help but jump into a Beatles song when we see these 2-stroke metal-bodied scooters. Vespa scooters seem to have a character and an image that’s purely their own and one that takes us back to simpler times, like when Rock n’ Roll was simple, ...

If you’ve been reading our stories here on Power Wheels since Monday (April 20), you’ll know that I am a huge Porschephile. I love all Porsches from the 356 A, B, C and Speedsters to the 911 from the 901-series until the current 992. I love everything in between including the 924, 944, 968, 928, and the current 718 Boxter ...

While working on our stories about model cars for our Miniature Wheels section under The Rack, we were reading about Porsche road and racing cars from the mid-1970s when we chanced upon a small box ad placed in the “Market Place” classified ads section of the January 1976 issue of Road & Track magazine. The box ad was about a ...

Before the lockdown in Metro Manila was implemented, we had Ford’s Ranger Raptor with us and were scheduled to go on an off-road shoot outside the city. Unfortunately, a few days before the trip, the Philippine government had announced quarantine and our supposed adventure was obviously canceled. The lockdown was yet to take effect in two days so we technically ...

To satisfy the die-hard sports car purists, for whom there can never be enough power, Porsche engineers in Weissach developed a new “winged creature” in 1995 capable of going from zero to 100 km/h in just 4.2 seconds and reaching speeds nearing 300 km/h. This new winged wonder was the Porsche 911 (993) GT2. After all-wheel drive (AWD) systems were ...

In 1989, Porsche designers lopped off the top of their popular 911 model, added a distinctive low-cut windshield that is laid back five more degrees than the standard 911’s, added the 930 Turbo’s fender flares, added a shell with humps that almost look like a pair of headrests to cover the space behind the front seats, and then called it ...