Power Wheels Magazine A Notch Above

These days, hatchbacks have become a popular vehicle of choice for drivers due to a myriad of reasons. Although initially more appealing to the younger market, its vast range of models have become firm favorites for families and commuters alike. Hardly surprising if you take into account all the advantages hatchbacks have to offer especially with our current situation wherein ...

Our featured Japanese Old School classic car, the 1968-73 Datsun 510, is often referred to as the “poor man’s BMW 3-series”. Inspired by contemporary European sedans, its sheet metal design is attributed to Datsun in-house designer, Teruo Uchino. Known internally as the P510 for the right-hand-drive (RHD) and as the PL510 for the left-hand-drive (LHD) markets, it was part of ...

  Committed to empowering Filipinos with dependable mobility, FOTON PH initiates quality vocational education and competent skills priming at FOTON Academy. “We are driven to advance the skills of our fellowmen and aspire to be enablers of strong mobility, which is how we aim to empower Filipinos through FOTON Academy,” says FOTON Motor Philippines, Inc., (FMPI) President Rommel Sytin. In ...

Are you a huge fan of the Volkswagen Type 2 passenger/commercial van, which is more popularly known as the Kombi? If you are, then you’re in for a treat as Power Wheels Magazine follows its evolution from the first generation air-cooled rear-engine, rear-wheel drive Kombinationskraftwagen, which is German for “combined-use commercial vehicle”, to the sixth generation liquid-cooled front-engine front-wheel drive ...

This 2nd week of September 2021 marks 50 years since my 1971 Chevrolet Camaro RS has been assembled at the General Motors (GM) plant in Norwood, Ohio, USA.  I bought the Camaro as a project car in 1996, restored it and displayed it in the Trans Sport Show in 1998, stored it from 2003 to 2008, revived it in 2009 ...

The last time we wrote about our 1995 Jaguar XJ6 project car was in March, when the technicians at JSK Custom Paint and Body Works were checking the drivetrain more thoroughly after they got it started and running. The 4.0-liter double overhead cam (DOHC) 24-valve (24V) AJ16 inline 6-cylinder engine started easily and was running smoothly while the ZF 4HP-24 ...

In the 80s’ and 90s’, BMW claimed the title of “The Ultimate Driving Machine” primarily because of the driving dynamics of their sports sedans, particularly the 3-series and M-badged models. These days, because of electronic traction control, torque vectoring, and other modern technology, a lot of new vehicles – not just sports sedans but even tall SUVs – can give ...

We were honored that Nissan Philippines, Inc. (NPI) lent us their new 2021 Nissan Terra VL 4×2 A/T a few days before its official launch on September 1, 2021. While the new Nissan model was with us, we were supposed to make a 2-minute video of our driving impressions that NPI will use for the online launch. However, we were ...