Tracking the right price
THE part that struck me most when the Chevrolet Tracker was recently launched was its price of P1,142,888…
Game 6 jinx haunts Phoenix?
THEY must win today or face the specter of losing everything in a battlefield that could instantly become…
Blast from New Zealand
MY dear friend, Danny “Sir John” Isla, writes about his new home that is Auckland, New Zealand. He…
Home court keys Bucks’ rebound
THE Milwaukee Bucks bucked a looming sweep when they defeated the Phoenix Suns, 120-100, in Game Three on…
‘Cebu lechon made the trip more worthwhile’
VINCE S. Socco, the much-admired writer-in-residence here, rides/writes again. The long-serving Toyota Motor Philippines hotshot expounds on his…
With Paul as ‘Point God,’ Suns favored
THE wise pick is Phoenix over Milwaukee. Surprised? Not me. Even days before the National Basketball Association (NBA)…
Stunning sales increase
IT is simply stunning. Almost unbelievable. I refer to the 360.8-percent increase in vehicle sales just a while…
LA Clippers alive because of George
IF your star shines in a basketball game, a win is almost as sure as night follows day.…
Not just roads but rivers, too
NOT only is San Miguel Corp. (SMC) set to build another road wonder traversing the Pasig River in…
Gilas five gives us glimpse of future
WHO said the new Gilas Pilipinas basketball team isn’t quality-laden? Think again, fellas. It is now awash with…
Djokovic doing the impossible
NOVAK Djokovic, the world No. 1 from Serbia, is now a Slam away from tying the all-time best…
‘Moving to the New Normal’
I GIVE way again to Vince S. Socco, the impregnable Toyota titan, who is my favorite writer-in-residence here.…
Caddy keys Saso’s historic win
MEN’S golf has four majors: Masters, US Open, British Open and the PGA Championship. But women’s golf now…
CARS cruising on govt help; heart from Isuzu
IT is June, traditionally the “marry” month of the year because it’s been many a couple’s calendar of…
Donaire and Pagunsan shine—but not Marcial
ONE won in America, the other in Japan. In a stunning performance that deftly defied Father Time, the…
Expressway to Quezon on; Toyota ‘kaizen’
IT is obvious. There’s no stopping Ramon S. Ang (RSA) from pursuing his nation-building platform. Not even the…
Mickelson makes memories rush back
WHEN you are 40 years old, you are almost done. When you are 50, goodbye. Not in golf. Phil…
Road to recovery shaping up; Lexus RX 350L
IT’S increasingly becoming obvious that a robust rebound is peering through the clouds. Meaning, the industry is now…
Novel NBA play-in on
THE Los Angeles Lakers and the Golden State Warriors, two of the greatest National Basketball Association (NBA) champions…
Budget tips for Gen Zs; Isuzu ‘BLOWBAGETS’
MY good friend, Nadinne Capistrano, writes to say she has some tips to help millennials and Gen Zs…
Limping LA Lakers looking to survive
WHEN LeBron James came back, Los Angeles was back. Suddenly, the Lakers’ crown looked secure. Beleaguered as they…
Tugade trumpets traffic success; Nakamura pitch
ONE positive aspect arising from the extended various levels of lockdown in the metropolis is the pronounced reduction…
A PBA idea worth looking into
SOMEONE exceedingly knowledgeable in sports told me recently: Why not hold the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) games in…
BRT is RSA’s new babe; Honda recall
WHO is the lone Filipino patriot today that truly cares about the comfort of the motorist in particular…
Tryouts tinkering with disaster
THE Tats tryouts is meeting an opposition. Some quarters and stakeholders say it’s not yet time for such…
Mitra should crack the whip
THE Mindanao leg of the now-soiled Pilipinas VisMin Super Cup has also been scrapped. Just right. That means…
Saudi’s carless future; Toyota throbs but Jazz junked
IN a recent AFP (Agence France-Presse) report, Saudi Arabia will have a future that will have no more…
Ancajas good, but Magsayo better
JERWIN ANCAJAS won by unanimous decision on Sunday on the strength mainly of a superbly conditioned body. Had…
VW does it again; GR Yaris coming soon
WHY did Volkswagen (VW) AG US unit knowingly issue a false news release claiming it would rename its…
Why not just one conference again?
I THINK it’s just right if the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) moves its opening in May—or even at…
Teamwork elusive as ever; SMC’s P190-million aid & more
WHILE the ECQ (Enhanced Community Quarantine) is in force, a curfew of from 6 p.m. to 5 a.m.…
Saudi’s carless future; Toyota throbs but Jazz junked
IN a recent AFP (Agence France-Presse) report, Saudi Arabia will have a future that will have no more…
Ancajas good, but Magsayo better
JERWIN ANCAJAS won by unanimous decision on Sunday on the strength mainly of a superbly conditioned body. Had…
VW does it again; GR Yaris coming soon
WHY did Volkswagen (VW) AG US unit knowingly issue a false news release claiming it would rename its…
Why not just one conference again?
I THINK it’s just right if the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) moves its opening in May—or even at…
Teamwork elusive as ever; SMC’s P190-million aid & more
WHILE the ECQ (Enhanced Community Quarantine) is in force, a curfew of from 6 p.m. to 5 a.m.…
Sports also grinds to a halt
IT’S just right. Stop all activities, including training and other similar workouts, of our athletes. It’d be out of…
Tabuena scores big for Lexus; Petron promos
LEXUS scores big consistently on sales through the years but what is not known that much is its…
Scandal-rigged, most expensive Olympics ever
CONTROVERSIES have become a dime a dozen in the run-up to the Tokyo Olympics. First, a bribery scandal. …
Bisita Iglesia no surrender; Okamoto ‘flesh & blood’
SIDESWIPED back-to-back from 2020 by this cruel Covid-19 pandemic is our yearly vow to do the Bisita Iglesia,…
PBA governors make everybody happy
GENEROSITY marked Draft Day of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) on Sunday. In a stunning innovation worthy of…
Volvo child seat, Lexus IS & Honda prices
WHILE a moratorium on the children’s car-seat debate is on, I received a timely piece from Paolo Ella,…
Another one bites bait—or why So defected
WEEP for Philippine sports. Wesley So, the Filipino chess genius, does not fight for his country, anymore. He…
Tiger’s Hyundai crash; BMW unveils 4 series
TIGER Woods, golf’s living legend, wasn’t driving his own car when he figured in a road accident last…
Premium is the honor
IT’S the honor, not the finish. By just being in Belgrade, that’s something to more than crow about.…
Car-seat law & MVIS torpedoed; Lexus ‘omotenashi’
WHO said President Duterte has stopped acting fast? Think again, fellas. In one fell swoop, President Duterte torpedoed…
Revelations in Aussie Open
NOVAK Djokovic did not surprise. But Naomi Osaka was a bit of a surprise. While Djokovic merely reaffirmed…
Lakers in peril
ANTHONY Davis is injured. Will it affect the future of the Los Angeles Lakers? In a sense, yes. …
Car seat vs seat belt; Skyway 3 connector
THE new child car seat law was stopped on its tracks but not after it got pelted with…
Athletes require early vaccination
IT is simple common sense that our athletes for both the Tokyo Olympics and the Southeast Asian (SEA)…
LTO ruling off tangent; Parex & Aerocity projects
THE recent Pampanga case about a vehicle getting inspected gone awry is but one of so many sorry…
The Perez trade
WILLIE MARCIAL has a job that is the envy of all. As commissioner of the Philippine Basketball Association…
We are here to stay–Nissan
WHAT was closed last week was the manufacturing aspect of Almera, not Nissan. Almera is a Nissan model…
Pacquiao-McGregor fight needs 2nd look
WILL Manny Pacquiao still fight Conor McGregor? Only a fool would say, yes. McGregor was knocked out by…
‘Second wind’ at Nlex; more on 2021 forecast
IT happens that in a marathon, the champion also feels energy slipping away. And then, all too suddenly,…
Another Black makes history
AARON Black is another case of a son also trying to rise. Always, that’s a tough act to…
Vaccine gives hope but not DTI’s new tariffs
JUST as hopes of recovery waft in the nippy air—what with the virus-vaccine’s much-awaited arrival—the car world got…
Cream of the crop
THE road has been paved. With 29 players from the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) tapped by the Samahang…
Virus also killed our appetite to buy that dream car
ENOUGH of talk about 2020’s poor showing, sales-wise. We don’t need a Wharton alumnus to tell us that…
Gilas badly needs PBA’s Fil-Ams
WE fear the South Koreans. That’s because in basketball, they’ve always been our kontrapelos (archenemies). How many times…
A new ‘variant’ plus the Yaris & Skyway 3
SUDDENLY, the coronavirus, which has already inflicted so much havoc on the car industry the past 10 months…
Pacquiao to fight for a cause
MANNY Pacquiao is to fight for a cause when he faces Conor McGregor next year. “I think I…
Encounter with a vaccine recipient; endless SMC aid
DEBORAH Dawn Delgado-Ferrer was one of the first Filipinos in America to receive a vaccine shot on December…
Nlex-Gatchalian standoff; BMW R18 launched
AS I write this, there was a deadlock between Nlex and Valenzuela Mayor Rex Gatchalian on the lifting…
Yuka Saso richer by P4.6 million in US Open
YUKA SASO finished tied for 13th spot yesterday in the 75th US Women’s Open in Houston’s Champions Club…
Public servant Rex Gatchalian deserves praise
IF there’s one thing that stood out in Rex Gatchalian’s move to suspend RFID operations beginning this week…
One more for Cone
FROM the start, Tim Cone is on familiar ground. Like fish on water. That’s the incontrovertible truth in…
Parting is such sweet sorrow; old cars in demand
I JUST sold my old car. Since it was my nephew buying it, I practically let him have…
Meltdown of the tournament
WHEN you score only one basket in five minutes, you ought to lose. There is no defense for…
Time to delete that ‘Act of God’ policy
THE recent floods in mostly Luzon reminded us once more about insurance policies. Why because many vehicles, both…
Ginebra-Phoenix Finals shaping up?
MERALCO and its sister team TNT fight for life on Wednesday. To survive, they need coaches steeped in…
Missing Toyota’s first ‘physical event’–sigh
TOYOTA took the lead again as it successfully gathered this week—after a commendable perseverance and painstaking patience, of…
Johnson choker no more
DUSTIN JOHNSON won the Masters on Monday because he stopped being a choker. Four times he was that,…
Promos prop up industry; virus voids lunch
KNOCKED down, but never knocked out. That’s the car industry eight months into Covid-19. Rolling with the so-called…
Cone’s ‘Big Picture’ theory
WHAT is game-fixing again? It is the act of shaping a game into having a result that suits…
Honda raffle, Hiace promo; RSA infrastructure binge
I RECEIVED news from Jose Maria Luis (Che) R. Cabotaje that Honda Cars Philippines has shacked up with…
Plodding on vs pandemic
COVID-19 is that vicious, indeed. Surfacing worldwide in February after its discovery on December 17 last year in…
Words of wisdom from Raymond, Spencer & Willy
THE following are the abridged views from three of the country’s top car moguls on coping up with…
Calvin Abueva’s bubble of goodness
I THINK there’s an imperative need to pursue it. As in a bill certified urgent by the President:…
RSA for president in 2022; Honda helps again
SINCE its eventful global launch in 2004, the Fortuner has never been lacking in adulation in virtually all…
Coach’s challenge in PBA necessary
WHAT is wrong is wrong. What is right is right. It was wrong for referee Sherwin Pineda to…
From 3-hour travel time to 20 minutes; ‘Lexus Experience’
ANOTHER infrastructure wonder has been recently completed by Ramon S. Ang (RSA), the most active, most inventive and…
Murder he wrote
IT’S obvious that LeBron James easily gets annoyed. It showed in the just-ended best-of-seven National Basketball Association (NBA)…
What, another Toyota launch? My beef with Beep
EIGHTY pesos may only be loose change to the rich. But to our poor folk, that’s manna from…
Can Heat repeat against Lakers?
LET’S be honest. Do you believe Miami Heat can win again today (Wednesday, PHL time) to forge a…
Macalintal makes ‘noise;’ more masks from TMP
I SUPPORT the recent “noise” made by Romulo B. Macalintal, requesting the Department of Transportation (DOTr) and the…
LeBron, Lakers heavily favored
YOU talk of warriors pitted in a war and, almost always, one side has superior soldiers over the…
Up and down sales swing; Toyota aggression
WHO said it was all downhill? That the industry has suffered terrible sales blows continuously amid the pandemic?…
Nuggets struggle against Lakers
WOUNDED. Still hurting. Still bleeding. That’s the sorry state the Denver Nuggets are in when they battle the…
Not only Hilux but Conquest has joined the mix
IN its fourth virtual vehicle launch this week, Toyota Motor Philippines (TMP) unwrapped the new Hilux and the…
LeBron’s dream very much alive
WITH the Los Angeles Lakers completing a second straight “backdoor sweep” last weekend, this time against the Houston…
Catch Honda’s huge discounts; New Hilux here
I AM still giddy on how to approach the digital world so that thanks to some of our…
Ayo out in the cold
THE government rule is very clear: No training or any form of activity in sports during the pandemic. …
After game-changing Cross, another Toyota stunner up
I LIKE what Froilan Dytianquin, now the general manager for Sojitz G Auto/Geely Philippines’s sales and marketing division,…
Yuka young star in the making
SO young, so mature. That’s Yuka Saso, the latest golf sensation from the Philippines. So young, so rich.…
RSA surprises BMW7 guests; Corolla Cross comes
RAMON S. Ang, the nonstop deliverer of ideas that he turns into amazing realities mostly benefiting the Filipino…
LeBron, Lakers hot on course
LEBRON JAMES and the Los Angeles Lakers just could not be stopped. After absorbing a 100-93 opening day…
Optimism amid the pandemic; Isuzu in Zamboanga
WITH sales data horrendously drawing jaw-dropping stares, the current year ought to be forgotten this early. Next year…
Saso shines amid gloom
IN pocketing the NEC Karuizawa Open and becoming the first Filipina to win in the prestige-laden Japan Ladies…
Honda Covid-19 fighter; Toyota delivery system
NOT only to ease traffic at Edsa but also to pursue physical distancing protocols to combat the virus…