Quick question: “When is an HEV (hybrid electric vehicle) not an HEV?” Short answer: “When it is an REEV.” Now, before you protest, please allow us to explain. You see, by definition, an HEV is technically a vehicle that is propelled or driven by a combination of an internal combustion engine and an electric motor. Battery charging comes in two ...

Ford Philippines promotes its Ranger 4-door crew cab midsize pickup trucks with the slogan “You Can’t Fake Tough”. The tagline wants to emphasize the Ranger’s inherent toughness, durability, and various capabilities, especially with features like a powerful engine, robust chassis, and advanced technology. To see if the tagline matches the truck and actually determine if its advertised ruggedness is real ...

Let’s get one thing straight: Pickup trucks are designed to be workhorses. Whether they are powered by a diesel engine, hybrid or electric motor, pickup trucks are meant to be workhorses. The common midsize 4-door crew cab pickup trucks that you see being driven around on our roads are designed to transport 5 people in relative comfort and carry around ...

“Jack and the Beanstalk” is a classic children’s story where a poor boy named Jack traded a cow for magic beans, which infuriates his mother, who throws the beans out the window into their garden. The next morning, Jack was surprised to find a giant beanstalk that reaches high into the sky, climbs it, and discovers a castle above the ...

“It’s very smooth,” my wife Shawie and I concurred while we were comparing notes about our recent driving experience with the 2025 Ford Everest Sport. We usually take a drive together whenever Power Wheels Magazine gets a media test drive unit but because of our busy schedules and unusual situations these past few weeks, it was one of those rare ...

When Suzuki Philippines, Inc. (SPH) launched the first generation Suzuki Ertiga multi-purpose vehicle (MPV) in July 2014, it was dubbed as a Life Utility Vehicle or LUV for short, which was a clever spin on the colloquial term “luv”, the slang for “love”. SPH promoted the seven-seat compact MPV as another testament to Suzuki’s renowned engineering leadership and legacy as ...

I was able to “overrule” my husband, Lester, when Foton Motor Philippines (FMP) lent us the Foton Tunland V7 for a weeklong test drive in April 2025. I reasoned that it was time to show that women (like me) can drive large full-size pickup trucks around our crowded metropolis just as easily as men. I had a great deal of fun ...

A little over a week after Mitsubishi Motors Philippines Corporation (MMPC) introduced the upgraded Mitsubishi Xpander model lineup on August 29, 2025, I found myself behind the wheel of a 2026 Mitsubishi Xpander Cross, the very same model displayed during the launch at the SM Mall of Asia, for a week-long test drive. Some of my colleagues in the motoring ...

When Li Auto Philippines took us for a Media Drive in August from the Li Auto BGC showroom to Calatagan, Batangas for a relaxing overnight stay at the Nawa Wellness Resort, they designed the drive to pamper us, the motoring media participants, to the point of being spoiled. All throughout the drive, we were chauffeured in three luxurious Li Auto ...

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), the renowned artist, painter, draftsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect during the High Renaissance once opined that “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”. These words came to mind when we had the 2025 Suzuki Jimny 5-door GLX for a week-long test drive. In this age where vehicles are becoming more complicated and complex to comply with ...