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Nissan Philippines Inc. recognized their outstanding and top-performing dealers at the Dealer of the Year Awards Night last March 8, 2019 held in Okada Manila. Nissan attributes its 40% growth by the end of December 2018 to the enhancement of its sales and after-sales services through its dealerships. With a total of forty-four dealerships in different parts of the country, ...

Maxicare, the premier healthcare provider in the country, has partnered with Lalamove, the leading delivery app, to offer discounted health cards to over 25,000 partner drivers nationwide. In a first-of-its-kind partnership, Lalamove’s motorcycle, MPV, and light truck partner drivers will enjoy preferential rates for every purchase of healthcare cards such as MyMaxicare Lite, Maxicare PRIMA, and Maxicare EReady.   With ...

As I always do in most of the media test drives I participate in, I try to come up with a nice story angle to tie-in our destination with the vehicles we’re driving to get there. In my 19 years as a motoring journalist, there were some hits – where the organizers or the communications head of the car maker ...

If you were a kid in the early ‘70s, chances are you were a big fan of the Batman TV series starring Adam West as Batman and Burt Ward as Robin. When the Dynamic Duo needed to stop a crime or catch their nemesis, Batman would always say to Robin, “To the Batmobile!” In the late summer of 1965, Dean Jeffries ...

While viewing the latest generation of the Mazda3 during a recent sneak preview held by Berjaya Auto, the Philippine distributor of Mazda Automobiles, we were given a short but fascinating history of the model. From when it was marketed as the “Mazda Familia” to its model name change to “323” to its current model designation, the Mazda3 has a long ...

“Buon pomeriggio, signor Pagani. Mi chamo Lester Dizon di Power Wheels Magazine e Manila Standard”, I greeted the guest of honor in Italian. After all, it’s not every day that you get to meet an Italian supercar superstar. No, I was not in Italy but at the Presidential Suite of the historic Manila Hotel for the press conference organized by ...

Legado Motors, Inc. (LMI), the official distributor of GAC Motor in the Philippines, signed an agreement with Automotive Icon Inc., headed by Dexter Co to open a new dealership in Alabang. Destry Lachaona, General Sales Manager and Arceli Seva, Accounting Head of Automotive Icon Inc. signed the contract at GAC Motor Metrowalk, Pasig last March 18 led by LMI Chief ...

  Toyota Motor Philippines (TMP) jumpstarted its Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) campus tour series last March 18, 2019 by forging a partnership with MAPUA University’s Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (MME) Department. The first leg of the educational caravan, held at the MAPUA school grounds in Intramuros, Manila, offered both students and faculty a firsthand look on the benefits of HEV technology through ...

While waiting for its new 383-cubic-inch (6.2-liter) small block Chevy V8 engine and 700-R4 four-speed automatic transmission in October 2013, our 1971 Chevrolet Camaro RS project car was inundated in five-feet-high flood waters during the height of the Habagat monsoon rains while parked outside the garage-workshop of V8 maestro Ben Lim in Cainta, Rizal. Ben jokingly called our Camaro a ...

  Jaguar has announced last March 19 at Whitley UK two distinctive special edition models for its award-winning F-PACE; the performance-focused 300 SPORT and the feature-packed Chequered Flag. They further enhance the World Car of the Year and World Car Design of the Year‡ award-winning F-PACE range, which offers the unrivalled dynamics and everyday versatility customers expect from a Jaguar ...