Power Wheels Magazine A Notch Above

Terrafirma Motors Corporation (TMC) signed an agreement with Chengdu Dayun Automobile Co. Ltd. (Chengdu Dayun) of China during a signing ceremony held at the Manila Golf and Country Club in Makati on March 8, 2023. TMC Chairman Bienvenido Santos, CAMPI Chairman Emeritus Gov. Jose Ch. Alvarez, Chengdu Dayun Executive Vice General Manger Xie Ping and Asia Regional Manager Sunny Huang ...

We recently revived our old 1997 Vespa PX150E, one of our old Project Bikes from our old MotorCycle Magazine, which we got from Jeffrey “Epy” Quizon, the versatile actor, TV host, and son of the late King of Comedy Dolphy. Please allow us to turn the clock back by 16 years to when we first started the restoration of our ...

Editor’s Note: The hard drive of our desk top computer, where we store the images and texts of most of our stories, crashed not long after the author finished editing some of the stories we were about to post. After several months of anxious waiting, we were finally able to retrieve some of the valuable data from that hard drive. ...

We recently revived our old 1997 Vespa PX150E, one of our old Project Bikes from our old MotorCycle Magazine, which we got from Jeffrey “Epy” Quizon, the versatile actor, TV host, and son of the late King of Comedy Dolphy. Please allow us to turn the clock back by 16 years to when we first started the restoration of our ...

We first got a sneak peek at Foton Motor Philippines’ latest entry in the pickup truck segment, the all-new Thunder 2.0, during the Manila International Auto Show (MIAS) in April 2022. FMP executives led by United Asia Automotive Group, Inc. (UAAGI) Chairman Rommel Sytin, Director Kenneth Sytin, President Errol Duenas, FMP General Manager Levy Santos unveiled the Thunder 2.0 4×2 ...

From late 2021 up to the middle of this year, local news outlets, websites, automotive-related forums and chat groups were in a writing frenzy about the campaign of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) and the Philippine National Police – Highway Patrol Group (PNP-HPG) against super bright LED headlights and auxiliary lights on motor vehicles and motorcycles. In the end, the ...

I was driving along a scenic tree-lined avenue somewhere north of Manila when the infotainment system started playing “La Vie En Rose”. “Perfect!”, I said to myself. The French song seemed apt for the drive since I was cruising along in a French car. Although the music playing in my vehicle was American singer Grace Jones’ 1981 disco version and ...

We had our day planned: First, we will all go get our renewed passports from the Foreign Affairs office, which we weren’t able to renew in time because of the pandemic. Then, we will go to the mall to get new cases for our home computers. If there’s a watch strap shop in the mall, I’ll get a leather strap ...

Nissan Philippines (NPI) took out all the stops when they introduced their last innovative electric vehicle (EV), the 2022 Nissan Kicks e-Power. On July 12, 2022, they invited members of the motoring media to the Clark International Speedway in Clark, Pampanga to experience the power and torque of the Kicks e-Power around the race track. Then, on August 1st, they ...

One of the joys of being a motoring journalist is that we get to drive the latest vehicles that are available in the Philippine market. The test unit is often delivered to us with a full tank of fuel and left with us for a couple of days for us to evaluate and enjoy. Of course, when we enjoy driving ...