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80 Years of Flat-Four Porsches

Most Porsche enthusiasts regard the 1948 Type 356 as the first Porsche simply because it was the first model sold by the company. To celebrate this milestone, Porsche celebrated their 70th Anniversary in 2018 as “70 years of sports car passion”. However, if we look at the company’s history, Porsche actually started producing sports cars as early as 1939 but not ...

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2019 Volkswagen Santana: CW Home Depot’s Preferred Fleet Sedan

Volkswagen Philippines recently turned over nine Santana sub-compact sedans to CW Home Depot. This recent acquisition by the pioneering home construction and renovation store brings the total number of Volkswagen vehicles in its fleet to 17. In 2017, CW Home Depot got four VW Jetta sedans in its executives’ use, and in 2018 got four VW Santana sedans for its managers. ...

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2016 Suzuki Ciaz 1.4 GLX A/T Part 6: Battle Scarred But Still Loved

Here’s the last part of our revisited series of long term test on our 2016 Suzuki Ciaz. We hope that you found our series of reports still relevant since our Ciaz is the same model currently being marketed by the Suzuki Automobile dealers across the country. However, the price of the top-of-the-line GLX A/T variant has increased from P888,000 when ...

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2016 Suzuki Ciaz 1.4 GLX A/T Part 5: Things That Go Bump In The Night

Upon the request of many of our readers, we revisited our series of long term test on our 2016 Suzuki Ciaz. Our report remains somewhat relevant because our Ciaz is still the same model currently being marketed by the Suzuki Automobile dealers across the country. In Part 5, we write a short and sad report about one of the realities ...

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2016 Suzuki Ciaz 1.4 GLX A/T Part 4: Love Your Own

Upon the request of many of our readers, we revisited our 2016 Suzuki Ciaz. We hope that our report is still relevant since it’s still the same model currently being marketed by the Suzuki Automobile dealers across the country. Here’s Part 4 of our long term test report: We’ve been pampering our long-term 2016 Suzuki Ciaz 1.4 GLX A/T after we ...

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1969 Sunbeam Alpine GT: Baby Barracuda from Britain

I was browsing the website of BarnFinds.Com and saw a photo of this white two-door fastback for sale at Hemmings for $18,500 or best offer. Immediately, I concluded that it was a 1965 Plymouth Barracuda but upon closer inspection, I knew that it was not. “Is it a Fiat Dino or an Opel Kadett?” I asked myself and again, I ...

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Mitsubishi Motors Showcases PHEV and DDH Systems with the Engelberg Tourer Concept Vehicle

Don’t you find it strange that Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) debuted their next-generation plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) sport utility vehicle (SUV) concept at the 89th Geneva International Motor Show in March and then announce a month later that their premium SUV, the Pajero/Montero, will be discontinued? Was the PHEV SUV concept just a styling exercise? Or is it a sign that ...

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Ferrari Premium Program: Peace of Mind for your Modern-Classic Ferrari

Maranello, Italy (April 24, 2019). Ferrari is extending even further its class-leading after-sales services for their valued clients with the Ferrari Premium program. The new program provides eligible cars with a Ferrari Premium Certificate testifying that all scheduled and preventative maintenance has been carried out on their car correctly, and that all recall and service campaigns for their car have been implemented. ...

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2019 Vios Autocross Challenge Round 1: Experiencing Waku-Doki Despite a Bad Back

I’ve always savored the chance to compete in motorsports. Be it four wheels or two, on road or off-road, street or circuit, wheel-to-wheel or time trials, speed contests or economy runs. I’ve always known that motorsports is a rich man’s game and that I’m not a wealthy man. When an opportunity arises to join a race for free as a ...

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2019 Suzuki Swift 1.2 GLX CVT: Hot in the City

A month ago (March 28-29, 2019), Suzuki Philippines, Inc. (SPH) invited us to drive the all-new third-generation Suzuki Swift from their Suzuki Auto Kalookan dealership to Bagac, Bataan, spend the night at the Las Casas Filipinas De Acuzar resort, and then drive back to Metro Manila the next day. During the drive, we observed that the “… Suzuki Swift has ...

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