Live in the Philippines — Car Prices Philippines
One of the more popular posts ever here at PhilFAQS, the site where you get your living in the Philippines questions answered is this one about current year new car prices in the Philippines.
We talk her often about opportunity and business in the Philippines and I hate to keep “beating the online drum” but that [...]
Visit To The Dealer
I’m a bit pressed for time today. On Wednesdays I usually write about prices, cost of living items and such. I had already started a post about taking my car in to the dealer last Friday when it was due for a ‘heavy’ 20,000 km service and then I discovered I had written [...]
Driven Crazy in the Philippines
When my brother and sister and I were little, like most kids we would watch for my dad to be heading out somewhere and run up to him, hollering, “Where you going daddy, where you going?”, hoping, of course, to be taken along for the ride. My dad had a stock answer, [...]
Car Prices Philippines
I keep a stack of notes and papers next to my computer for background material on future articles. I just noticed a leaflet someone stuck in my hand at the mall the other day for a Hyundai i10 that I sat in recently (big enough for 4 Americans, not much else impressive about it [...]
Still Going Up — No End In Sight
I notice a lot of folks search here at PhilFAQS for information about prices. Both in the Philippines and in the US the price of gas is a hot topic right now. My wife and I had a laugh a few days ago when one of her sisters sent a message from Rhode Island and [...]
Update On The Northern Luzon Toll Roads
Update to the Update:
Recently my wife and I headed up to Pangasinan province to fetch her sister home for the holidays. Finally the new SCTEX northern segment was completed in it’s current form. Not nearly as impressive as the segment that goes west to Subic, that’s for sure.
Again I am completely unimpressed by the lack [...]
It Ain’t All Bad
No secret that many roads in the Philippines are bad … and stories about the traffic can sometimes reach legendary proportions. I wrote one I particulate back about "Three-lined Streets". But to leave you thinking I go through that nonsense every day would be a failure to present the whole picture.
Tuesday last we drove up [...]
The President Ro-Ro’s, Will the Country Follow Suit?
CAWAYAN PORT, Masbate — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo sent off on Monday the roll-on roll-off (Ro-Ro) ferry that was on its maiden voyage from this port, but did not board it.
The Super Shuttle Ferry 12 was the third ferry she sent off for the day as part of the Ro-Ro caravan to promote anew the Strong [...]
The Three-Lined Street
Last night my wife (The Unofficial Cook) and I had a good chuckle at a real estate ad she found on a Philippine newspaper website. It was an obvious typo, instead of describing a house as being on a tree lined street they had written that it was on a "Three lined street". A simple [...]
Always Popular, Prices — Current Mitsubishi Products
Disclaimer: Prices are F.O.B. Manila, Prices are as of January 2008.
Model [...]
A Way To Avoid A Tale Of Woe — Cars In The Philippines
I can’t even count how many times I’ve heard about this scenario in the Philippines:
Someone in the family wants a car … often for a very good reason … let’s say to start a car service, which is often a good way to make a buck (slang for peso) here.
So the overseas relative(s) decide [...]
Car Rentals — It’s Not Like Home
The latest podcast from Bob Martin and I on getting around within the Philippines. You can listen or download it here.
I write quite a bit about domestic air travel. Airlines don’t go everywhere, though, and a lot of people come here with the idea that they should rent a car and drive themselves around, much [...]
New Car Deals
I just got through posting on a very popular subject here … prices in the department store … when it occurred to me I haven’t talked about car prices in a long time. Looking at the Saturday paper I see that ‘Zero Interest’ is the name of the game this season … when I bought [...]
A Visit To The LTO — For My U.S. Readers
UPDATE: The information here is certainly applicable to my non-US readers as well … there are not special LTO regulations for different countries … as long as those countries offer reciprocity to Philippine citizens driving on their Philippine license. Just substitute your home country terms for the places I refer to US state licenses.
I’m using [...]
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