Chevrolet sold more than 1.18 million vehicles around the world in the first quarter of 2013 achieving its 10th consecutive quarter of record global sales on the strength of products like the Cruze compact car which recently surpassed the 2 million mark in total global sales since its launch in 2009.
BPI Family Bank, the country’s biggest thrift bank, seeks to broaden its consumer lending business by unveiling an affordable auto financing plan for first-time car buyers, targeting young professionals in their 30s or late 20s.
The Association of Vehicle Importers and Distributors (Avid) suffered an 11 percent drop in sales to 4,928 units in the first two months of the year from 5,507 units in the same period last year.
Chinese New Year is upon us once again. Given the prosperity of our Chinese-Filipino brothers in business, it’s high time that Filipinos with even a drop of Chinese blood in their veins follow the principles of feng shui. I have practiced some of the principles of feng shui for a couple of years now, and I can conclude that it does no harm to follow them. Hard work, perseverance and prayers are all necessary, but a bit of spiritual luck never hurts.
The year 2012 brought about a lot of new and very pleasant surprises from big names such as Toyota, the launch of super-luxury exotic brands such as Lamborghini, Bentley, Ferrari, Maserati, the return of Peugeot, and Mitsubishi’s impressive answer in the small-car segment, the Mirage.
Toyota Motor Corp. is testing car safety systems that allow vehicles to communicate with each other and with the roads they are on in a just-completed facility in Japan, the size of three baseball stadiums.
The Berjaya group of Malaysia is hatching a deal with Japanese car giant Mazda Motor Corp. to set up a Mazda vehicle distribution business in the Philippines.
Nissan Corp. has unveiled the second model from its new low-priced Chinese brand Venucia following what an executive said was a temporary dip in sales during anti-Japanese protests last month.
I teach part-time at a leading university in Metro Manila. Most of my students and mentees are thankfully car enthusiasts themselves. After lecture, students always ask me about sports cars, performance cars, exotics and modified cars. During lunch breaks, my coprofessors, teachers and instructors ask me about practical, fuel-efficient and environment-friendly cars instead.
Ford is recalling about 8,270 2013 Escape SUVs due to a problem with carpet padding that can interfere with braking, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Sunday.
Toyota Motor is expanding a tie-up with Germany’s BMW on hybrid and fuel-cell vehicle technology as the global automakers pushed further into the “green” market, a report said Monday.
Like couture, there are many advantages in buying things second hand. There’s your contribution to the environment (lessens the carbon footprint of producing the same item) and of course the cost.
