As early as three years into its life, Audi was pressured to come out with a new A4.  When Audi engineers were already beginning to reach...

“Surprise and delight the customer” may be a common marketing goal these days, but it’s unusual to find a car that genuinely fits the bil...

Just last weekend, I was checking the classified ads looking for how much a new house might cost these days. After a few flips, I found a...

The moment you set your sights at the Hyundai Matrix, you immediately think: that doesn’t look right.  I don’t blame you.  The rest of hu...

I’ve got this soft spot when it comes to Mitsubishi off-roaders. Call them crude, but there’s something—either with their stance or loo...

The engine closes up to 7,000 rpm and the muted sonorous note fills the cabin.  Just before the rev limiter hit, you signal the sequentia...

Jaguar’s XJ-series is the epitome of luxury and performance for the British car maker.  And even with Ford money, and the subsequent intr...

Pluck any car enthusiast from the last 40 years, and there is only one car that he will be sure to identify from a hundred paces away.  T...

Enter a showroom, any kind of showroom, and you’ll immediately get whiffs of lies and deceit.  And it’s not the plastered smiles on the r...

Elvis Presley, James Dean, Clint Eastwood—men with very different backgrounds, and yet, all have become at least during a part of their l...

Five to ten years ago, the choice for a first car was as diverse as the colors on a Charlie Chaplin flick: it was either the Toyota Corol...

The wonder of an effective marketing campaign is that it sticks right in your head, whether you like it or not.  And while Vinchie and th...

It’s a fact that ninety-five percent of SUV owners haven’t even thought of going off-road.  They probably avoid the smallest of potholes ...

A long, long time ago in the Kingdom of the Philippines lived Mazda 323.  It lived simply, toiling around the busy city streets, bringing...

Once upon a time there was a man who loved driving cars.  He wanted a car that was just right for city driving, that didn't eat up to...

The last time a Nissan Sentra set foot on the Subic International Raceway was when the dollar exchanged for 26 pesos and the president st...

Every Terminator movie has a scene where Arnold Schwarzenegger gets hit with everything the enemy has.  His skin and human attachments ri...

Imagine you’ve been working for a multi-national company, and after sweating it out for a couple of years, you’re about to get promoted. ...

Japanese sedans used to be simple: three sizes with three different strengths: mild (1.3), regular (1.6), and extra strength (2.0).  You ...

There are several ways of waking up in the morning, from the unpleasant blare of an alarm clock to the stimulating aroma of breakfast coo...

Let’s face it—we’re going to be late again.  Rushing through a mid-afternoon’s Metro traffic, our humble Toyota Echo zipped between bigge...

Given a fixed length, width and height, the most efficient shape to enclose a space is that of a box.  That's something that applianc...

Now, more than ever, the lines of automotive design and engineering are beginning to blur.  American sedans, once noted for their crudene...

There’s always something alluring with the girl next door.  She may not be the prettiest, sexiest or richest, but somehow she always mana...

It seems that Nostradamus is right after all.  Our world may not have ended with the now infamous Y2K debacle or with a Nuclear Holocaust...

When a promised gift arrives later than it should, it can be frustrating and exciting at the same time.  The same sense of anxious antici...

Even as Isuzu struck success with its first Isuzu AUV, the Hi-lander, it was already developing its second iteration, the sportier, sleek...

I’ve always taken a liking to bright, red wrapping paper.  There’s a sensation of butterflies in the stomach, coupled with anticipation t...