Tsikot.ph PHUV Prototype

[donbuggy]

wala ba tayong leader katulad ni mahathir mohamad na siyang nagpursige para magkaroon ng isang proton.ok

What this country needs is a Filipino version of a Henry Ford or a Soichiro Honda. Men with vision who built an industrial empire from humble beginnings.

[jpdm]

Sarao (Sarao Motors) and Francisco (motors) are almost like these great guys--Ford and HOnda...

But they failed to reinvest whatever they have earned to uplift and improve their products.

At least FMC came up with the Harabas, Pinoy and Anfra but was ravaged by economic downturns and government ineptness...

I hope they can rebuild their firms and adapt new, modern and better technology to cope up with the new market...

[carrora]

I Visited their website and they are working on a microcar. This year daw launcing...

[architect]

I Visited their website and they are working on a microcar. This year daw launcing...

*carrora, can you kindly post the url of the website? Thanks.

[carrora]

*architect, here's the link to their website:
http://lagangan-designs.cadcollaboration.com/
Maybe there's a problem with their website, the links don't work.
Their microcar looks interesting though. If they really can produce such a car, I think it would somehow help ease our traffic problems and global warming.

[jpdm]

matuloy sana yang minicar na yan.....

[rmb]

matuloy sana yang minicar na yan.....

sana mayroong investors na magkainterest...

[webmiester]

Sarao (Sarao Motors) and Francisco (motors) are almost like these great guys--Ford and HOnda...

But they failed to reinvest whatever they have earned to uplift and improve their products.

At least FMC came up with the Harabas, Pinoy and Anfra but was ravaged by economic downturns and government ineptness...

I hope they can rebuild their firms and adapt new, modern and better technology to cope up with the new market...

Well, some of the advantages Ford and Honda had at that time:

Ford: There was no one else mass producing cars at that time
Honda: Japanese import restrictions along with Japanese patrionism really made him sell his early models.

Francisco and Sarao, on the other hand, got smacked straight up against the imports, with Filipino colonial mentality working against them. Francisco did try to reinvest his earnings with a new assembly plant, but he is now in debt because of that.

As for Sarao, it was precisely the "hand-made" jeepney image that made him, and did him in... The company couldn't produce anything else because that is practically all that they were known for, and they didnt risk producing anything else.

[ehnriko]

To a certain extent... we may blame the weather for this.

Our country is a tropical paradise... not really a place conducive for passionate creative thinking. But rather, social relaxation is a plague.

It is apparent in Pinoy Designed Vehicles that they carry the air of a beach resort incorporated in the package.

As the nation is transformed to be a people who spends more time in the airconditioned malls... the design culture also changes. The old Jeepney design becomes more unattractive... and the PhUV or OPV becomes highly evolved.

The MVPMAP made PhUV can be considered as an evolutionary design as we cross this phase of a newly emerging Pinoy Generation. "Y" and "Z".

[varga]

[SIZE=3]hi (again) to all car design professionals and aspirants [/SIZE]

[dprox]

[SIZE=3]hi (again) to all car design professionals and aspirants [/SIZE]

Hi(bernation)! Nice to know you're still around, varga! Wazzup? If I'm not mistaken, you owe us one EB.

[donbuggy]

As for Sarao, it was precisely the "hand-made" jeepney image that made him, and did him in... The company couldn't produce anything else because that is practically all that they were known for, and they didnt risk producing anything else.

When I was in college, I had to think of a topic for my industrial design thesis. I proposed re-designing the jeepney. My teacher turned it down. He said that there have been a lot of student thesis about re-designing the jeepney but nothing was done about it. It is a tragedy that all those students' ideas were not tapped to improve the jeepney. What a waste of brain power.

To a certain extent... we may blame the weather for this.

Our country is a tropical paradise... not really a place conducive for passionate creative thinking. But rather, social relaxation is a plague.

It is apparent in Pinoy Designed Vehicles that they carry the air of a beach resort incorporated in the package.

As the nation is transformed to be a people who spends more time in the airconditioned malls... the design culture also changes. The old Jeepney design becomes more unattractive... and the PhUV or OPV becomes highly evolved.

The MVPMAP made PhUV can be considered as an evolutionary design as we cross this phase of a newly emerging Pinoy Generation. "Y" and "Z".

Ehnriko mades a strong point about our values as a nation being reflected in the vehicles that we make. The Japanese have "kaizen" (continuous improvement), which is why their cars became better technically and in quality. We have the "pwede na iyan" mentality as seen in our locally made vehicles.

Note: Singapore has the same weather we have but they do not have the easygoing attitude that we have. It's their culture. They have "kiasu" mentality (ayaw magpatalo). So they always strive to be number one (best airport, etc).