Lucky riders. Five lucky Uber riders went home with a Samsung Galaxy Note5, the only ultra-premium Dual SIM phone, through the Galaxy Note5 Lucky 5 on A Ride Promo, a partnership between innovation leader and Uber. The Samsung Galaxy Note5 is a true productivity tool with game-changing features such as an enhanced S-Pen, a professional-grade camera, and ultra-fast charging. Stephanie Sy, Marketing Manager for Uber Manila, poses with winner (from left to right )Katrina Romualdez, Diana Ecija, Justin Poniente and Fe Reyes. Joining them is Patty Rodriguez, Product Manager Head for Samsung Electronics Philippines (rightmost).
Lucky individuals, it came as a surprise that on their booked Uber ride, they would come home with the latest Samsung Galaxy Note5. Without their knowledge, their booking made them instant participants of the Galaxy Note5 Luck 5 on A Ride Promo, where five lucky Uber riders were selected when he or she booked a car at select locations. It was truly a matter of being at the right place at the right time.
One of the winners, Katrina Ronwaldo, gushed “How lucky can I get? All I really wanted was a quick ride but hey, I won’t say no to Samsung’s newest baby—I’ve just had the Galaxy Note5 for a few days and I’m totally blown away by it. It has all sorts of fun features and apps that have made my life so much easier and better -- from a really useful S-Pen to a very powerful camera and really fast charging. It’s a pity I only learned about the Galaxy Note5 now—it’s what I’ve always needed.”
“We at Samsung like surprising people with possibilities that they never thought existed—like getting a cutting-edge smartphone in the most unexpected way. Through this promo with Uber, we hope to open people’s eyes to infinite possibilities out there, which they will also discover once they get their hands on the Galaxy Note5,” said Patty Rodriguez, Samsung Product Marketing Head.
This week, Mitsubishi Montero Sports in once again in the hotseat because of its issue which the vehicle encounters a Sudden Unintended Acceleration. It is already controversial in 2011 and it is buzzing around the car community in the Philippines.
This month, a CCTV footage where a 2013 Mitsubishi Montero experienced a Sudden Unintended Acceleration. It was aired in a local news in the Philippines. You can watch the videos below and you'll be the one who will be the judged.
Last week, BMW Club Of The Philippines held their 2015 event celebrating their pride and joy BMW cars. Held in One Esplanade in Pasay; it is a gathering of BMW enthusiast and fans alike. Besides cars, car show models are also the highlight of the event.
Here are some of the images of the BMW Babes, enjoy!
This year, Nissan, officially announced their latest and most powerful pick-up truck in the Philippine market today. The 2015-2016 Nissan Navara NP300.
The all new design of the 2015-2016 Nissan Navara certainly gives an impression that this vehicle will yet again deliver the result that the owner needs, especially in rough terrains as the previous generations was famous for. Also, the vehicle comes with a DRL or Day Running Led Light for safety.
Besides with their signature airconditioning system, Nissan is also famous on their powerful engines that comes in a small package. I mean, their engine comes with a 2.5 Turbo charged engine — which is very common in the market today; however it cranks up to 190hp and with a monstrous torque of 490 NM, which it will provide pulling power whenever it needs. Having that on the details, the horsepower and torque are not commonly offered in other models; and Nissan offered that to the consumer. Having a small size engine will give the vehicle an overall reduction in vehicle weight, which will give more space to off-road modification, and having an advantage in power and torque. Also, the vehicle will be offered in 6-speed Manual, or 7-speed Automatic transmission.
Inside the vehicle, it has a calm ambience; even it is a monster outside, you'll still comfortable riding this when you are inside as the 2015-2016 Nissan Navara comes with 5" Display Audio with CD/Tuner/MP3/AUX/USB/iPod Connectivity; Bluetooth and Audio Streaming, and Vehicle Dynamic Control System.
You will never go wrong with the 2015-2016 Nissan Navara NP300; the Philippines most poweful truck that ever released in the market today.
Also, I incluided a video clip of the powerful 2015-2016 Nissan Navara NP300
This month, Nissan Philippines made again another milestone in the automotive industry in the Philippines as they embraced the digital technology to reach car enthusiast, car fans, and consumer who are already tech-savvy and doing transaction online using their smartphones and other devices. Nissan Philippines officially launched the Nissan Parts Online Website — www.nissanparts.ph. This E-Commerce is an authorized shopping portal of Nissan Philippines. The said website is also similar to US-Autoparts which is operating and very popular automotive shopping portal in the United States.
Held in Makati, the website will sell genuine Nissan parts, accessories, and merchandise in an online catalogue, which can be easily seached by vehicle or parts name. Navigating on the website searching for parts is very easy, as you where at the Nissan Dealership. Below are the videos:
An extensive list of Nissan parts and items readily available realtime which ensures customers of convenient upkeep to their Nissan vehicles. The said website also post promotional announcement for specific parts, accessories, and merchandise.
Nissan Parts Online makes genuine Nissan parts and accessories more accessible to the market. It caters to the various needs of different types of customers who may able to easily access a Nissan dealership. By bringing additional ease and convenience, Nissan takes another step towards better customer service.
"Nissan is excited to introduce a new innovation to the automotive industry as we launch our Nissan Part Online" said by Antonio Zara, President and Managing director of Nissan Philippines, Inc. "It is our commitment to bring innovation that excites to our market". The launch of Nissan Parts Online is another testament to our promise of turning "What if into What is, through continuously challenging and innovating how we serve our customers."
Here are other images on the press launch of Nissan Parts Online:
Toyota once again released the 2016 Toyota Tacoma, an award winning 4x4 pickup truck in the United States. And now, to have a glimpse on what to expect when you purchase one, I will be posting videos for the 2016 for the TRD 4x4 version.
A masculine design and rigid body, it displays that this truck is ment for tough terrain. Equipped with a new Toyota 3.5 Liter V6 engine that cranks at 278 Horsepower, with a Torque of 265 lb.-ft @ 4600 RPM assuring when it comes to power, the driver will not have an issue when climbing high-places and go anywhere regardless of the terrain. Off roaders will have another monster to setup in the coming months, or even this 2016.
Here are the videos for the 2016 Toyota Tacoma TRD 4x4 Edition:
Guess everyone are so excited to have one. Toyota owners, enthusiast, and Fortuner purist are so excited to own of this successful mid-size SUV in ASIA and some parts of South Africa.
We all know that in some parts in South-East Asia this model was already released. By the coming months, the 2016 Toyota Fortuner will be available worldwide. I know you are excited about this, so on this post, I'll be showing a video on what to expect when you buy a unit.
When buying and owning a car, it is our nature that you are looking to do some changes on the aesthetics side, and headlights is one of them — you are after for the perfomance headlights that is a "badass" and will attract attention with fellow car-enthusiast or fans. With all that cravings, you will still consider the quality of the item since knockoff are swarming in the market because of the price-point, and buyers nowadays are very meticulous with. And thats where Skylight Autohub comes in.
I was fortunate to be invited on their press-launch as they are officially opening their stores to the public. While I am preparing my equipment to cover the event, I spotted a 2015 Toyota Vios with a performance headlights installed. There is no product sold in the market for that model which has a "U-Bar" Daylight Running LED in it. It is confirm that the product was a Skylight Autohub for the 2015 Toyota Vios.
We all know that there's no aftermarket performance headlights sold yet for the 2015-2016 Toyota Vios which have a configuration like that, but Skylight Autohub already have one, and it is already available to the market. Also, it is a plug-and-play configuration which just like a conventional headlight of the Toyota Vios.
Here are the video where we covered the Skylight Autohub for the 2015 Toyota Vios:
By the way, the place is a heaven because they have display of several performance headlights for different models that is popular in the market. Here are some of the images:
Skylight Autohub Performance Headlights for 2011 Toyota Innova Models
Skylight Autohub Performance Headlights for 2012 and Up Honda Civic Models (FB Chassis)
I'm sure that Honda Enthusiast here in the Philippines will go gaga when they will install this on their car.
Skylight Autohub Performance Headlights for 2013 Ford Ecosports Models (Second Generation)
Skylight Autohub Performance Headlights for 2012 Ford Ranger Models (T6 Chassis)
Unbelievable that the Skylight Autohub Performance headlights performs better than the OEM headlights; guess the guys are doing research on how to make the Ford Ranger safe at night.
The event proper officially opened by the CEO Michael Quah by providing us its company background and their vision of their products in the future.
Well, what I am excited is about the details of the product like the materials that was used, the improvements that the future buyer will benefitted from it; and I'm satisfied that they provide that information on-hand at the event. Here are the images:
Product structure was explained to us at the event. They use a performance headlights for the 2012 Honda Civic (FB Chassis) as an example — imagine, you will be having a U-BAR DRL on those Honda Civics, total awesome!
They show the data that there is a big improvement in terms of night visibility when you are using a Skylight Autohub performance headlights. Its beneficial to the drivers who are driving at night, especially they introduce the Anti-Glaring technology to their products.
They show also an image of a T6 Chassis Ford Ranger with their product installed and big improvement was gained in terms of illumination compared to the OEM counterpart.
Now, this is also get me excited as they will also release performance tailights in the future.
The press-launch was success one, especially that they will hold a carshow event on October 3 where they will display cars and SUV to the public with Skylight Autohub Performance Headlights installed on it.
For more information about their performance headlights and other products (especially their energy saving which I will be covering next), here their contact information posted:
Contact Number: +(632) 695-9380
Email: info@skylightautohub.com
Address: Unit 06, Ground Floor, Freedom Plaza Liberty Center, #312 Shaw Boulevard, Barangay Pleasant Hills, Mandaluyong City, Philippines
Website: http://skylightautohub.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/skylightautohub?fref=ts
Credit: Photographer and Contents: Arnold Yew of Arnold-S Photogs
Guess everyone in the motoring industry and car community in the Philippines are celebrating that a Filipino bagged the overall winner of the 2015 Nissan PlayStation GT Academy Asian Region this month held in Silverstone, in United Kingdom.
Taking the Trophy is not that easy as the Indonesian driver Andika Rama is a fast driver too. What happened it was, somwhere in lap 4-8, Joward — Jose Gerard's nickname, overtake Andika due to a fatal mistake when he overshoot an Apex.
This is where Joward started to attack Andika, when the car of Andika somewhat committed a fatal error in making a turn. Resulting that he overshoot an apex to giveway to Joward from the Philippines
You will see at the cam that Andika overshoot at the Apex that provided Joward an opportunity to overtake him until the last lap
From that mistake, the Indonesian driver is aggressive to take the pole position as he cuts his time to a 2 of a milliseconds driving Joward pressured. However, the Filipino driver keeps his pace and his rhythm calm until Lap 9 as you can see at the image below that they are bumper to bumper and neck-to-neck in closing the race. However, the Filipino reign supreme at the end of the race.
After that race, a victory party held at the 22 bar and resto in Jupiter Makati for the top 6 racers who arrived from the United Kingdom.
Wearing the signature Mustard Yellow which is the color of the car that was used in the race.
General Manager for Marketing of Nissan Philippines, giving a speech
At the end of the night, everyones is happy. Guess this is the window which dreamers who wants to tap and to be in the world of Professional racing.
