Power Wheels Magazine A Notch Above

From November 18 to December 10, 2005, I rode a Yamaha Sniper 135 around Indonesia along with a convoy of riders from other ASEAN countries – Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, and the Philippines – mounted on similar motorbikes for the Yamaha Pan-ASEAN Touring series. During our ride, which started from Jogjakarta in Java and ended at Medan in Sumatra, ...

My mom taught me an adage that was passed on to her early in life: “Lahat ay mahal kapag wala kang pera. Lahat ay mura kung meron. (Everything is expensive if you don’t have money. Everything is cheap when you have.)” I am reminded of this wise old saying after our finances were reduced when we shifted our magazine business ...

Sometime in  November 2010, I was at the parking lot of the Home Depot in Ortigas taking pictures of cars and the participants of the 7th anniversary of the Old Schooler Car Club when I found myself gravitating towards a well-restored Isuzu Gemini SL 2-door coupe with plate number NRT-798. Its orange hue must have pulled me to it since I ...

“2019 seems to be a lucky landmark year for us”, confided Francis Jonathan C. Ang, the Chief Operations Officer (COO) of the Auto Nation Group (ANG). We were having a casual conversation over a sumptuous Chinese lauriat lunch at the Legend Hong Kong Seafood Restaurant right across the World Trade Center in Pasay City when Frankie, as he likes his friends ...

The news feed from ABS-CBN (news.abs-cbn.com) was grim: Five people were killed and 10 were wounded after the van that was ferrying them flipped over while passing through an elevated portion on the northbound side of the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) in Apalit, Pampanga around noon Saturday, March 23, 2019. The police reported that of the 15 people on board ...

Science has proven that siblings share about 50 percent of the same DNA on average. Each brother gets one half of his DNA from each parent, since the father and the mother only donates half of their DNA. The shared DNA can produce some similarities in the appearance of the siblings, like – in the case of celebrities – the ...

Traffic around the World Trade Center in Pasay City became very heavy the whole day yesterday, April 4, 2019, as thousands of vehicles carried thousands of car enthusiasts who came to witness the 2019 Manila International Auto Show (MIAS). Before we come out with our full in-depth report and numerous photographs taken by freelance photographer Roy Eusebio, here’s a preview ...

It seems just like yesterday when we picked up our brand-new 2014 Suzuki Ertiga 1.4GLXi A/T multi-purpose vehicle (MPV) directly from the Suzuki Philippines, Inc. (SPH) factory in Canlubang, Laguna. After we did a cover story on it for Power Wheels Magazine, we fell in love with the first-generation Ertiga Life Utility Vehicle (LUV), as SPH was marketing it then. On ...

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has announced the appointment of Jozef Kaba? as the company’s Head of Design. Kaba?, 46, is an experienced and talented designer, having spent the majority of his career at a senior level in automotive design. Kaba? joins Rolls-Royce Motor Cars from the BMW Group where he has been Head of Design Studio BMW since 2017. Passionate about car ...

There’s no doubt that the jeepney, aside from being a national symbol of transportation, moreover embodies the richness of the Philippines’ culture diversity and art. Bearing the values which Filipinos are recognized for, the jeepney is built with resilience, creativity, and hospitality—providing service within the masses’ reach, considering it as the cheapest way to commute in the country. However, it ...