Honda Cars Philippines Inc. (HCPI) made serious waves when it launched the updated 2024 Honda City with a life-saving feature. All City variants now come with the carmaker’s excellent Honda SENSING active-safety suite, which includes adaptive cruise control, lane-keep assist and collision-mitigation braking. These not only prevent you from crashing in the first place, but also make long journeys much easier. This made the City the first-ever subcompact sedan in the Philippines to offer this high

A question was posted on social media that recently asked about the generations of the Toyota Wigo. Many answered correctly by stating that the famous hatchback only had two. At the same time, others answered that the Wigo already had three due to subtle model changes. It got us thinking about what constitutes a different new vehicle generation and how it differs from a plain mid-cycle refresh or facelift. What is vehicle generation? Vehicle generation is when a car nameplate gets a new chassis

The all-new 2023 Perodua Axia was previewed to the Malaysian press on February 8, 2023, giving us a possible glimpse of the next-generation Toyota Wigo. Although the Axia will be officially unveiled on Valentine’s Day (February 14, 2023, for those who don’t have a love life), our friends at WapCar Malaysia have been able to get behind the wheel of Perodua’s new little hatchback. The Axia has long been the Malaysian sibling of the Daihatsu Ayla and the Wigo. It uses the new Daihatsu New Global Ar

At some point or another, during your elementary and high school days, there was one student who always got a big chunk of the achievement awards. In a similar vein (albeit in the Philippine auto industry setting), that student is Toyota Motor Philippines. According to information gleaned from the Chamber of Automotive Manufacturers of the Philippines (CAMPI), which is the largest automotive group in the country, Toyota once again dominated in 2022 by having eight of the top 10 models and nine o

Have you ever wanted to have your brand-new Toyota Wigo, but you can’t handle heavy monthly payments? Toyota Motor Philippines said in a January 2023 press statement that you can bring home the Wigo 1.0 E M/T at just ₱6,256 a month through its Pay Light option, which requires a 50-percent downpayment and 60 months amortization. The same financing plan means you can also have a Toyota Veloz 1.5 G CVT at ₱13,210 a month or a Toyota Rush E 1.5 M/T at ₱10,724 a month. The Pay Light option is availab

Throughout 2022, the Philippines has experienced hardship and calamity left and right. From raging typhoons to runaway inflation, it seems the year decided not to be kind to the resilient Filipinos. That same resiliency can be found in the robust car market that sells some of the cheapest cars we've seen in a decade. Here we round up 10 of the cheapest cars available to Filipino buyers, and if you stick around to the last vehicle, there is a bonus choice that may prove interesting to many. 10. C