THE INSIDE MAN
After a period of de-stocking and consolidation from the major car making nations, supply for some models were able to catch up with the increased demand prodding Philippine Vehicles sales growth to correlate to the GDP growth of the economy at 5%-6% for the year.
What Pre-Owned Shopping Can Do
Another boom year for the auto industry? Would there be any knock on effects on the used car market then? How goes that luxury car market which went flat last year? But as in any market, there are always the mainstay brands that will sell, come hell or high water.
The old adage "If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys" has always been Gospel truth in anything economics. Just like budget airlines. "Eeeoouw!", say frequent flyers of full-service airlines. Never mind if more flyers fly budget.
Dream Job? For anyone who likes cars and living well, being a MoJo is indeed a dream job. You can drive almost any car you like, as long as its in the press fleet
The roof top bar of the chic Berlin Radisson SAS Hotel was bathed in the blue corporate colors of our host, a proper complement to the cold light that is the environs of its Scandinavian designers.
A Car industry with Chinese characteristics
One would think that after generations of uniform looks and thinking under Chairman Mao, expression of individuality would take a while to blossom.
Being Green is the trend consciousness of the moment. Spectacular displays of the waste that wealth can afford are condemned and shamed. The World may have to thank Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" of 2006 for spurring mankind's guilt for the abuses it had afflicted on Planet Earth.
For adolescents, this the goal of humankind: Independence and the freedom to travel whenever, wherever and with whomever.
Of the current images of San Miguel Corporation, the one that comes to mind is the Jose "Pepe" Smith radio spot about Red Horse Beer. The changes in accent and target cliches, done by perhaps, just one talent, shows the spread of the Beer giant's transformation into a chameleon of sorts.
"Eddie, I hope you don't mind" and with those polite words my uncle stood in silence as his garden loving brother-in-law loaded a sack full of water hyacinth and loti (lotuses?) fresh off the swamps of Candaba, - into the trunk of his bright red 289 V-8 1965 Ford Mustang.