Disclosure: Honda Cars Philippines Inc. kindly lent me a 2023 Honda Civic Type R FL5 for nine days. It arrived with a full tank of fuel and loaded RFID cards. AutoFun Philippines paid for additional fuel, toll, and a carwash. The word “legend” gets thrown around an awful lot nowadays. Social media is awash with so-called legends, supposedly because they achieved some incredible metric online (a gazillion followers/subscribers) or for some insane (and often extremely dangerous) act. A little etym

When you think about the 24-hour Le Mans race, you think of sleek hypercar racecars all vying for the top spot in the historic endurance race. However, the last thing you would expect to see at the event is a next-generation NASCAR racecar duking it out with the rest of them. It is what happened this year as NASCAR celebrates its 75th birthday. The premier stock car championship has entered the prestigious endurance race to mark the momentous occasion. The next-gen cup series Chevrolet Camaro ra

In line with its goal of being carbon neutral across all its operations by 2050, Nissan USA has started using electric trucks to transport its new vehicles from the Port of Los Angeles to a network of dealers in the Los Angeles area. There are currently two electric trucks in the fleet, but Nissan said that it will add more later on. The two Class 8 electric trucks used by the Japanese brand were made in partnership with Nikola and Kenworth. The project is also being developed by the transport c

It’s the last Sunday of January – here’s another edition of the AutoFun Philippines Rearview Roundup. We’ve compiled the top five stories from January 23 to 27, 2023 that really moved you. Here’s what you chose. Toyota party! In case you’ve been living under a rock over the last decade, Toyota is once again the top-selling car brand in the Philippines. Data from the Chamber of Automotive Manufacturers of the Philippines Inc. showed that the company took a mammoth share of the market in 2022, sel

Motorsports is the last place you would expect to hear about sustainability. Perhaps even less so at endurance races, where cars at full belt for up to 25 hours straight, testing both man and machine through day and night. But in a December 2022 press statement, Toyota Motor Corporation said it would field two cars at the 25-hour IDEMITSU 1500 SUPER ENDURANCE 2022 that aims to break the mold. The Japanese carmaker said it would field a Toyota GR Corolla powered by hydrogen and a Toyota GR86 that

(Images from Honda PH) With its safety features and spatial practicality, the Civic Type R can pass as a daily, if you'd think about it (and force it a little). Is it easy to maintain a modern hot hatch like the Civic Type R? According to a report in November last year made by Martin Pretorious of AutoTrader, a car website in South Africa, the Civic Type R is actually a bespoke car, and despite the geography, his findings are very much applicable in the Philippine setting. Being in the same cate