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In celebration of The Philippine STAR’s 29th anniversary, I figured I’ll give you a different sort of test drive report; one that actually takes into consideration your very busy day when you probably have less than five minutes to read through this entire piece.

[DatePublished] => 2015-07-28 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097687 [AuthorName] => Ulysses Ang [SectionName] => Motoring [SectionUrl] => motoring [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/business/motoring/20150729/Car-Review-4.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 315061 [Title] => Them Cheating Filipinos [Summary] => While negotiating the twists and turns of Metro Manila the morning after a foreign head of state practically accused the Philippines of rigging the recently concluded South East Asian Games, the question hit me — are we really a nation of cheats? The natural reaction for such a heavy accusation would be one of anger, for sure. But after a little introspection, I found myself questioning our initial, albeit seemingly justified, strong disagreement with the said head of state’s assessment. [DatePublished] => 2006-01-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133604 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1160013 [AuthorName] => BACKSEAT DRIVER By Dong Magsajo [SectionName] => Motoring [SectionUrl] => motoring [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 285190 [Title] => GM Philippines changes guards [Summary] => While many members of the media can’t wait for the day that some country representatives of foreign car companies, due to their arrogance, which is ironically combined with sheer ineptness, are called back and end their tour of duty in the country, the ones that are most loved, like James Lim of General Motors Automobiles Philippines, decide to go.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134827 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805279 [AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa [SectionName] => Motoring [SectionUrl] => motoring [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 223469 [Title] => Chevrolet Optra — The sleeping giant awakens [Summary] => One of the biggest ironies in the local car industry is the fact that the world’s biggest car company — the one with the most mind-bogglingly diverse line of nameplates, brands, models and variants — has one of the smallest market shares here. Sure, General Motors Automobiles Philippines (GMAP) has one of its best-selling vehicles in the U.S. market here (the Chevrolet Silverado), not to mention one of the best-selling brands in Europe (Opel) available locally as well. [DatePublished] => 2003-10-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1486156 [AuthorName] => Manny N. de los Reyes [SectionName] => Motoring [SectionUrl] => motoring [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 223472 [Title] => A need to rationalize our country’s Emission Testing [Summary] => It’s about time we put some order into our "emission testing" lest we find ourselves in some situation in the future where we shall be in the midst of all the pollution despite having all vehicles given clean bills of health by "dime-a-dozen" emission testing centers.

I think there are now just too many Emission Testing Centers in cutthroat competition making the business no longer viable unless a player resorts to trade malpractices, which eventually result to corruption and inefficiency of the program.
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                    [ArticleID] => 1481927
                    [Title] => 29 one-liner car reviews
                    [Summary] => 

In celebration of The Philippine STAR’s 29th anniversary, I figured I’ll give you a different sort of test drive report; one that actually takes into consideration your very busy day when you probably have less than five minutes to read through this entire piece.

[DatePublished] => 2015-07-28 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097687 [AuthorName] => Ulysses Ang [SectionName] => Motoring [SectionUrl] => motoring [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/business/motoring/20150729/Car-Review-4.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 315061 [Title] => Them Cheating Filipinos [Summary] => While negotiating the twists and turns of Metro Manila the morning after a foreign head of state practically accused the Philippines of rigging the recently concluded South East Asian Games, the question hit me — are we really a nation of cheats? The natural reaction for such a heavy accusation would be one of anger, for sure. But after a little introspection, I found myself questioning our initial, albeit seemingly justified, strong disagreement with the said head of state’s assessment. [DatePublished] => 2006-01-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133604 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1160013 [AuthorName] => BACKSEAT DRIVER By Dong Magsajo [SectionName] => Motoring [SectionUrl] => motoring [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 285190 [Title] => GM Philippines changes guards [Summary] => While many members of the media can’t wait for the day that some country representatives of foreign car companies, due to their arrogance, which is ironically combined with sheer ineptness, are called back and end their tour of duty in the country, the ones that are most loved, like James Lim of General Motors Automobiles Philippines, decide to go.
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I think there are now just too many Emission Testing Centers in cutthroat competition making the business no longer viable unless a player resorts to trade malpractices, which eventually result to corruption and inefficiency of the program.
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