Editor’s Note Neil Pagulayan

Neil Pagulayan Managing Editor

EDITOR’S NOTE

Photo by Jose Altoveros

As the we come close to the end of the year and Covid-19 restrictions ease a bit, the different car brands aren’t showing any signs of letting up, pushing out exciting new models as fast as the remaining time left in 2021 allows them.

This month in Fresh out the box, we see the 2022 Audi Q5, the 2022 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Coupe, the 2022 Chevrolet Trailblazer, the Lamboghini Huracán STO, the Maserati Ghibli Hybrid, the All-New Mazda BT-50, the 2021 Subaru XV GT Edition, the 2021 Suzuki S-Presso Special Edition and the 2022 Mitsubishi Xpander Black Series. Aside from new vehicles, our news section is chock-full of features, like why MitsubishiPH changed their slogan specially for the Philippine market and new company called Premium Warranty Services can help you find quality second hand vehicle that they’ve vetted themselves.

We have a story coming out of the UK on the Nissan GT-R Nismo, they’ve found a way to make it better, apparently, all Nissan engineers do is sit around figuring out how to make this car faster. ToyotaPH takes us to lunch in San Pablo, but we have to drive ourselves there in the recently launched GR-S variants of the Hilux and Fortuner, which was a great idea! We check out the BMW 4 Series, another one with their “interesting” new grille is examined in great detail and we take the Volkswagen T-Cross for a quick drive to see why people like it so much. The Manila Auto Salon makes it’s highly symbolic comeback, showing that the car show scene, along with the rest of the auto industry is getting back up on it’s feet and we of course look forward to the comeback of other calendar auto events. In local motorsports, ToyotaPH wraps up the 2021 GR Vios Cup. We feature a showdown between a 911 and a Taycan, which will you root for? petrol or electric? And they’re both really great cars from Porsche. So yeah, it’s another jam packed issue and we’re already working on our year-ender issue. We know for a fact that there are more launches before the year ends. Lets hope that Covid-19 infections decrease further as more and more of our population get vaccinated and hopefully restrictions ease up even further in time for the holidays.

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