Gaming the Mirage CVT
That twisting road connecting the high Tagaytay ridge to the Taal lakeside town of Talisay is a favorite of mine, the many tight turns going down or back up all concentrated into a…
Riding the Elephant: Tata’s surprising Ace micro-truck
The Tata Ace was first introduced in 2005 as an upgrade replacement to the three-wheeled auto-rickshaws common in India as well as other countries in Asia. Since then, its market has grown to…
A variable vehicle: the BAIC MZ45 WeVan
The Philippines is now Uber country. On May 11, the government introduced the Transport Network Vehicle Service (TNVS) category. Covering vehicles that provide pre-arranged transport for compensation using online apps that link up…
Bring a Tata to a truck fight
It seems that for every five new vehicles on the road, one is a pickup truck. These city-slicker trucks almost always have twin-row cabs, ride high on raised suspensions, and have roaring diesels…
The BYD L3: Prime Example of Why China Carmakers Are Banking on DCTs
There’s this apparent trend, a growing demand for automatic dual-clutch transmissions (DCTs). Late in 2008, Germany’s BorgWarner partnered up with the dozen major carmakers behind the China Automobile Development United Investment Company to…
An Outreach Drive to Dueg with BAIC’s MZ40 WeVan
On the first Saturday of March, with the season heading seriously into summer but with the air still cool and dry in the hours before the sun came out, I rolled off with…