Chinese carmaker Jetour has finally arrived in the Visayas region! The company announced in an October 2023 press statement that Jetour Auto Bacolod is now open for business. It features a 284-square-meter showroom that can display six Jetour models and a shared service area that can accommodate up to five cars. “Now that Jetour Auto Bacolod is here, we can pursue our goal of providing quality value-laden vehicles to our kababayans [countrymen] in Negros Occidental and neighboring provinces in t

The all-new 2024 Honda CR-V will officially launch in the Philippines on Sept. 13, 2023. AutoFun Philippines was the first to report that the venerable crossover would arrive this year with an all-new hybrid engine. This marks the local return of an electrified model in the Honda Cars Philippines lineup. The previous-generation model made waves locally for two reasons – an available, economical turbodiesel engine and a third row of seats. The former has gone the way of the dodo, while the latter

Once in a while, journalists like us get lucky with a really juicy story. In this case, a source with intimate knowledge of the upcoming 2024 GAC GS3 Emzoom provided AutoFun Philippines with information about the Philippine specifications of the all-new crossover. The source asked to remain anonymous for lack of authority to disclose these details. The GS3 Emzoom is a subcompact crossover that will officially launch locally on June 30, 2023 is expected to take on the likes of the Toyota Raize an

One of the unique selling propositions sales agents will harp about the Mitsubishi Xpander/Xpander Cross is its electronic parking brake. The feature takes over the regular pull-type parking brake with a handle, particularly for the Xpander GLS and the upcoming 2023 Mitsubishi Xpander Cross variants. The aforementioned Xpander varaints also get a hill-hold function with the Electric Parking Brake, which makes sure that the unit stays stationary while the electronic parking brake is in the proces

Slated to be formally launched in the Philippine market by the end of this month, the updated 2023 Mitsubishi Xpander Cross features a host of interesting improvements. This is largely based on the updated Mitsubishi Xpander Cross launched during the Gaikindo Indonesia International Motor Show last year. Judging from how it looks, there’s much to look forward to as it promises to be better than the previous model. Apart from the numerous improvements on the exterior and interior, one of the aspe

If the AutoFun Philippines articles on the wonders of electrified vehicles have convinced you to buy one, perhaps you've thought of whether or not you actually save money by buying a hybrid. We crunched the numbers so that you don't have to. Let’s see if this basic calculation will shed some light for you. The buying costs We start by comparing the Nissan Kicks e-POWER, which has a series-hybrid-electric drivetrain, and a similar gas-only rival like the Geely Coolray. On the face of it, the top-