Unlike Toyota or Ford, Honda Cars did not really have an established presence in the Philippines until it officially started operations on October 1990. This month, Honda Cars Philippines Inc. (HCPI) is celebrating 33 years in the country with a variety of awesome deals from Oct. 1 to 31, 2023. These include a 10-percent, all-in downpayment of as low as ₱10,000 for the highly popular 2023 Honda BR-V VX with Honda SENSING, which is the only vehicle in its class to feature active-safety assists li

Toyota Motor Philippines has officially launched the 2024 Toyota Yaris Cross, it's newest crossover to join its local lineup of cars. The new vehicle brings RAV4-like styling but on a more compact page. It also brings a new 1.5-liter hybrid powerplant that promises excellent fuel economy while maintaining performance. That said, Toyota allowed us to test drive the Toyota Yaris Cross right after its launch to enable us to get a few quick first impressions of the vehicle. The short test drive cour

Honda Philippines is set to bring in the updated version of the Honda City. The new model brings a couple of tweaks to its exterior design, new connectivity features, and, most of all, Honda SENSING active safety to the nameplate. The updated version of the sedan is now more technologically advanced than ever before and is much safer with the new advanced driver-assistance systems. As it is a momentous occasion for the nameplate, we will quickly look at the history of the Honda subcompact sedan

Toyota Motor Corporation's newly-appointed president and CEO, Koji Sato, has laid down the new model road map for the brand showing the introduction of 10 new Battery Electric Vehicle models by 2026. The company also announced that it plans to sell 1.5 million EVs by then. Along with this initiative, Toyota also plans to start local production of a Battery Electric Vehicle pickup in Asia along with the launching of a compact BEV by the end of 2023. In a press conference held April 7th, the carma

The Philippines may still have the previous-generation Toyota Vios, but it certainly remains popular after topping the 2022 sales charts. Nonetheless, many of our ASEAN neighbors already have the all-new, fourth-generation Vios that was first launched in Thailand on August 2022. Indonesia, meanwhile, got the new Vios on October 2022, where our friends from our sister publication WapCar reported that a hybrid version may also be included in the line-up. “Toyota bukan sahaja akan menawarkan Toyota

With claimed fuel consumption for all these newly-introduced B-segment sedans hovering below the 6-litre/100 km mark (2020 Toyota Vios: 5.8-litre/100 km, 2020 Honda City: 5.4-litre/100 km, 2020 Nissan Almera: 5.4-litre/100 km), which one of these non-national B-segment sedans will offer the best fuel consumption under real-world conditions? Fuel Economy (Claimed, L/100 km) Nissan Almera 5.4 Toyota Vios 5.8 Honda City 5.4 To find out, we pitted all three models through our Autofun instrumented te