Drives

You’ll want to stick to roads, of course, but with the truck chassis of the Bayanihan H5, you’ll also like it in the dirt.  Riding high enough and featuring a traditionally robust suspension…

BAIC Philippines’ new ute brandishes payload numbers that are both impressive and–with rugged live-leaf suspension at front and in back–refreshingly realistic. That 16-seat capacity on the passenger rear body is at the same…

Built on the platform of the stubby Brio hatchback, the Mobilio stretches matters into the form-factor of a three-row MPV that’s tall inside as well as afoot.  Riding just a centimeter lower than…

Suzuki hit the sweet spot with their second-generation Celerio, upsizing its value proposition with the new hatchback’s roomy dimensions, and updating its refined powertrain with a continuously variable transmission (CVT) that’s easily gamed…

On Suzuki’s Celerio CVT (continuously variable transmission) variant, what would seem a drawback is something that’s stock on all continuous variable transmissions. But, rather remarkably, it’s something that can be worked around, particularly…

If you’re anywhere near an actual test drive of the new Rodius, don’t read this. It might ruin your fun discovering how this big MPV can’t be what it’s supposed to be. With…

With the Swift’s smallest engine yet, and riding higher with big cushiony tires, its 1.2L version might seem to hurt the hatchback’s stellar standing, but it doesn’t, not in the least. The Swift…

Built thick and rigid, and powered by a truck’s turbodiesel, the Tata Indigo subcompact sedan is the heaviest in its class.  She sounds like a minibus gone throaty, but she’s fast, and she’s…

Suzuki is a brand to watch this year. Last month, they reported record sales for 2015, delivering top year-on-year growth numbers of 52% that they’ve attributed mainly to their passenger car segments, particularly…

Set to launch next month and priced to move in the hotly contested compact MPV segment, the new BAIC M20 goes on an in-house, pre-launch test-drive to rustic Sagada through historic Kennon Road…

The Tata Vista Ini, gasoline fuelled base-variant of the larger successor to their popular Indica diesel mini-hatch, delivers an interesting torque curve that could be driven diesel-like with fuel-saving short-shifting, or strong and…

We spot what makes the scaled down but classically configured Suzuki Jimny 4×4 such an easy fun drive, both on and slightly off city grids. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YOndr122r0&w=auto&align=center