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1978 Toyota Celica XX Supra Part 1: We Got Ourselves a First-Year, First-Generation Supra Restoration Project!

It wasn’t just the car that caught our eye when we were browsing the vehicles for sale on Facebook Market Place but the seller’s asking price: P120,000 is far too cheap for a 1978 Toyota Celica XX Supra. Based on the article “Here’s What The 1978 Toyota Celica Supra Costs Today” posted at hotcars.com last December 17, 2021, the prices ...

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2021 GAC GN8 2.0L A/T GT Luxury: Flying First-Class on the Highways and City Streets

When Legado Motors, Inc. came up with an online media event to announce an exciting new outlook from GAC Motor – redefining the G-A-C acronym to mean “Go And Change” – the company itself was an agent of change as well. GAC now has an exciting line up of vehicles in the Philippines from compact cars (GA4 sedan) to crossovers ...

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Kia K2500 Series 4×2 and 4×4 Light Trucks: K-ring for the Kargo and the Kargador

It was one of those days when I had to get up from a comfortable bed before 5:00 AM to prepare for a short, one-day out-of-town media drive. I had to leave early from our home in Quezon City to beat the morning rush hour traffic and make it in time to the swab test scheduled at 6:45 AM in ...

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1990 Nissan Cefiro 2.4 GTS-R Part 2: Looking At What We Got, Getting It Clean, and Learning Something New Everyday

In Part 1 of this Power Wheels Magazine Project Car series, we narrated how we came across an online ad about a 1990 Nissan Cefiro 2.4 GTS-R, how we were able to buy it for just P50,000, and how we took it from San Benito Sur, Aringay, La Union on board a borrowed flatbed tow truck and deposited it at ...

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2021 Maxus D60 1.5T Pro: Along Came a (Smooth) Spider

Chris Edmonds, entrepreneur, executive consultant, speaker and author of several business books, such as Good Comes First, The Culture Engine, and Leading at a Higher Level opined that you must “smooth the path for those around you” to help foster success. SAIC Motor Corporation Limited, which was formerly Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation, a Chinese state-owned multinational automaker and Fortune Global 100 ...

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1990 Nissan Cefiro 2.4 GTS-R Part 1: An Automotive Wish Fulfilled After 32 Years

When the Nissan Cefiro 2.4 GTS-R (A31) was launched in 1989, I was working as a salesman for Metro Motors, a Nissan dealership located at the ground floor of the Atrium Building along Makati Avenue in Makati City. The brand’s local distributor at that time, Nissan Motor Philippines, Inc. (NMPI), allowed the dealers to come up with their own in-house ...

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HOFELE Premieres Bespoke Models at the 2021 Auto Zurich Car Show

Located near Stuttgart, Germany, HOFELE-Design GmbH is an internationally recognized specialist in automotive design and engineering. The company has been in the automotive design and engineering business for over 35 years. In 2017, HOFELE was appointed by Mercedes-Benz AG as an authorized partner for the enhancement and supply of Mercedes-Benz passenger cars. Today, HOFELE work exclusively with the Mercedes-Benz brand, ...

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From November 8, 2021 until February 7, 2022, Loyal SEAOIL Customers Can Get a Chance to Win Lifetime Free Gas and Much More!

The one-of-a-kind promotion from SEAOIL, the Philippines’ leading independent fuel provider, has returned with bigger prizes for customers in its fifth year. Three customers, one each from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, will win a lifetime free supply of fuel when SEAOIL’s Lifetime Free Gas promo that launches today, November 8, 2021. With the recent spike in fuel prices, winners of the ...

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2021 Nissan Leaf EV: Going Electric and Clean Around Metro Manila

“When it rains, it pours”, so goes the age-old saying. On a Saturday morning (November 6, 2021), my wife Shawie and I were privileged to be invited to participate in the first-ever Electric Vehicle (EV) Eco-Run organized by the Electric Vehicles Association of the Philippines (EVAP). Not only did we have fun and enjoyed catching up with old friends and ...

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The First-Ever EVAP Electric Vehicle (EV) Eco Run: Advocacy, Camaraderie, Inevitability

It was a warm, electrifyingly sunny November morning when we arrived at the Nissan Mantrade dealership along Pasong Tamo Avenue in Makati. ten minutes before eight. My wife Shawie and I were invited by the good people of the Electric Vehicle Association of the Philippines (EVAP) for the first-ever Electric Vehicle (EV) Eco-Run, which they dubbed as “Accelerating the Switch to EV ...

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