Power Wheels Magazine A Notch Above

The 1976 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow I once owned by the late English actor Sir Roger Moore (October 14, 1927 – May 23, 2017) was recently sold in a charity auction to benefit Canvasback Missions, Inc., a non-profit organization that serves remote Pacific islands with much-needed health care and health education. The bidding ended on September 20, 2021 after the winning bid of ...

September 2021 marks the 55 years since the introduction of the Chevrolet Camaro. Known inside General Motors (GM) circles as the F-Body platform, the Camaro was officially marketed starting in September 29, 1966 for the 1967 model year. It was GM’s entry into the then-new segment of the American car market – the pony car – or sporty 2-door coupes ...

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 ...

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 ...

Toyota Motor Philippines Corporation (TMP) recently announced a proud and magnificent milestone wherein the Toyota Corolla achieved accumulated global sales of 50 million units in the past 55 years. Introduced in 1966 as a subcompact 5-passenger sedan, the 1st-generation Corolla doubled its annual production from 480,000 to 1,100,000 vehicles in just two years and became the catalyst for mass car ...

The 2021 Honda City RS you see here is seventh-generation City and the fifth-generation City sedan. It was launched on November 25, 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand but the sedan was introduced in the Philippines almost a year later on October 22, 2020. This latest City sedan, as well as the City Hatchback, which was introduced on April 20, 2021, now comes ...