Two years ago, some enterprising amateurs trumpeted an investigative journalism expose, proclaiming a Subic import rebirth, while producing photos of rows upon rows of vehicles parked at Port Irene at Luzon's northernmost tip.
The Demise of a Great Road Builder
In 1969, ten years before Franquista Mother Spain ever had its first dual carriageway highway, we already had 2 expressways; the North and South Diversion Roads.
Philippine Motoring Year-end Industry Report Card - Part Three
Cost cutting. On everyone's lips everywhere. And they meant it. Huge decreases in ad budgets, canceled events and scaled down marketing blitzes.
Philippine Motoring Year-end Industry Report Card - Part Two
A review of the Philippine Motoring Industry for the year 2009. Second of three parts.
Philippine Motoring Year-end Industry Report Card - Part One
A review of the Philippine Motoring Industry for the year 2009. First of three parts.
Our test drive was arranged in Anting, in a park adjacent to the Shanghai Auto Museum – to which GM is an active donor - near the F1Race Circuit.
GM's future is near and nearby
GM, a major player in the principal market segments in China, has all bases covered. Shanghai-GM-Wuling makes and sells the best selling mini-commercial vans for the country, easily 30% plus of the domestic car market.
Anyone who believes that the 88.58km TPLEx [Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union toll Expressway] should remain a 2-lane single carriageway highway [like the Tipo-SFEx] has not seen the hordes of Manila bound traffic paying toll on weekends on the NLEx Spur-Clark SCTEx toll plaza.
Financing, Operating and Planning for more Expressways
Out in the SCTEx, the Patrols are now experimenting with nighttime speed monitoring from Tipo to Clark. Instead of photographic evidence of speeding as required by the LTO, the regulatory body will instead allow LIDAR operators to submit sworn affidavits identifying the speeding violator, in case the violator contests in court. As to the most annoying of expressway moving violations;
As the global recession continues to dampen world wide demand for automobiles, the prudent businessmen have engaged in de-stocking and de-leveraging. De-stocking means a reduction in new car orders as stocks have been moving slowly.
