local motoring columns

[rock]

Do you guys read motoring columns in local newspapers? What do you think of them? Do you think tsikot.com can (or should bother to) influence the writers to make their columns better?

Wala akong car magazine budget so I regularly read those of PDI (Aida Sevilla Mendoza and Al Mendoza) and the Star (Ray Butch Gamboa). The lady columnist has informative articles IMO but the gentlemen just seem to be the Maurice Arcaches of the motoring beat - i.e., many times, just a lot of names of industry people mentioned. But in fairness to them, sometimes they do assist their readers in some of their problems.

Suggested improvements are for the local motoring press to take honest and firm opinions - hindi lang yung puro maganda ang sinabi tungkol sa mga producto ng manufacturers. If car A is better than car B in a certain respect, say so. If this manufacturer's claim about mileage is bulls*#t, say so. This is for their readers'/ car buyers' best interest.

Other suggestions: Ten best cars, features, events, innovations for the year... Ten worst... parang Car&Driver.

[mazdamazda]

am with you there. nothing but praises from them!

also noticed that ray buth gamboa is VERY biased towards honda as our daily paper is the star. also good that you noticed that he just name drops everyone everytime! what do the readers care about if this is the VP of this car firm?

what he does is just to rehash the features / specs of the car. we already know about it. that newspaper column is for opinions! we have the regular motoring pages for that.

[roydok]

All praises to them for enlightening the general public on the aspects of motoring. :D

[Hero]

local motoring columnists are just mediums for local car manufacturers..thats why there's very little difference in the columns and the official press releases..and pang sipsip kasi yung mga names na memention...para mainvite sila sa kainan...

[logbook]

i think most of those articles can be characterized as advertisements. and yes, some of the writer's are sort of biased to the point that it would seem that they were paid to say such things about the car and the manufacturer.

kulang nga all balls out criticism or comparos e....sayang :roll:

[ssaloon]

pero yung mga local industry magazines like C! and REV really meticulously compare and contrast cars of the same segment... very informative and di mashado masakit sa budget... 125 ata per issue

yung motoring show sa NBN tuwing gabi ng tuesday ata, very biased nga sa ibang brands... ray butch gamboa host and producer hehe :mrgreen:

[Gian]

Notice the non-stop plugging Ray Gamboa does with their NBN 4 shows, "the longest running local automotive show" blah blah blah. . . :roll:

[irmscher]

Awww man Butch Gamboa is always partial to whoever manufacturer provides him the "car of the day" for his show. Plus, when he reviews or talks about cars, there's never any real world comments -- everything is basically lifted off the brochure.

OTOH, Brian Afuang and Lester Dizon's articles are ok. Not so in-depth but at least they're able to point out the shortcomings of specific models.

[Ibaloi]

Maybe some columnists are hoping that they will be given a car if they would be extra nice to the car manufacturers. Arse kissing, hoping that free lunch would be served. If only they visit tsikot.com and interact in the forums or at least view the threads, maybe they would be able to see the real score on the automotive industry, the good, bad and reality of philippine motoring. Tsikot.com = real people.

[buknoy2002]

pero yung mga local industry magazines like C! and REV really meticulously compare and contrast cars of the same segment... very informative and di mashado masakit sa budget... 125 ata per issue

yung motoring show sa NBN tuwing gabi ng tuesday ata, very biased nga sa ibang brands... ray butch gamboa host and producer hehe :mrgreen:

wala ba website yung C & REV? para libre na pagbasa ko? :idea: :oops: