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Requiem
by BACKSEAT DRIVER By Dong Magsajo - May 9, 2007 - 12:00am
Welcome to this week’s Backseat Driver column, where for once I refuse to throw the obtrusive middle finger to dim-witted motorists and road abusers and instead...
The Dealership Dilemma
by BACKSEAT DRIVER By Dong Magsajo - March 7, 2007 - 12:00am
Okay. You’ve worked day and night, saved up enough money and gathered enough guts to finally decide to make that new car purchase. The first and most crucial dilemma...
Proven Wrong
by BACKSEAT DRIVER By Dong Magsajo - December 20, 2006 - 12:00am
A couple of months back, in this very column, I narrated how skeptical I was about a unique project Goodyear Philippines had undertaken. The project — Bayani ng Kalsada — was a search for Filipino...
Friends and Strangers
by BACKSEAT DRIVER By Dong Magsajo - November 15, 2006 - 12:00am
With apologies to Dave Grusin — perhaps the single most influential pianist in this writer’s life — the title of this particular installment of Backseat Driver was not inspired by the jazz...
Metro Manila’s Worst Bottlenecks
by BACKSEAT DRIVER By Dong Magsajo - October 11, 2006 - 12:00am
Any writer who says that his opinions are not dependent on his subjectivity is a liar. I start this column with this sentence because I am about to name the worst bottlenecks in Metro Manila according to the experiences...
Counterflow, mutant powers and all that crap
by BACKSEAT DRIVER By Dong Magsajo - September 6, 2006 - 12:00am
Just the other day, a team from Goodyear Philippines came to see me to interview me and find out my thoughts on the "skill level" of the Filipino driver as fodder for their "Bayani ng Kalsada"...
Life and Limb
by BACKSEAT DRIVER By Dong Magsajo - August 2, 2006 - 12:00am
Clichés are a dime a dozen. But there’s a reason for their profusion. Most of the time, they are undeniable truths — facts of life you just can’t deny. Take for example the notion that...
Class vs. Crass
by BACKSEAT DRIVER By Dong Magsajo - June 28, 2006 - 12:00am
Peers and readers alike have been lauding the very concept of this column since we launched it first some two years back. Apparently, this column has changed the way a number of people view not just columns, but...
Farming for Cars 101
by BACKSEAT DRIVER By Dong Magsajo - April 12, 2006 - 12:00am
In the life of every journalist, there comes — not very often — the occasional story that just doesn’t seem to make sense. And, in truth, it’s this kind of story that needs to be told most. Dear...
Quick Buck Fountains
by BACKSEAT DRIVER By Dong Magsajo - March 15, 2006 - 12:00am
Last week, in this very same space, Andy Leuterio related how a friend of his had succumbed to the temptation of the quick fix solution. Arguments were made and the deeds were done. However, the whole scenario our...
Drunk driving, death and apathy
by BACKSEAT DRIVER By Dong Magsajo - November 23, 2005 - 12:00am
A few months back, basketball bud and fellow Philippine STAR columnist Bill Velasco took up the cudgels for the beleaguered family of Kenji Kenneth James Kanai, a young basketball prodigy from Benedictine International...
Sanctions for road barbarians
by BACKSEAT DRIVER By Dong Magsajo - October 19, 2005 - 12:00am
Nobuharu Tabata, president of Toyota Motor Philippines, recently revealed to this writer a very interesting tidbit regarding the issuance of driver’s licenses in his native Japan. According to Tabata, traffic...
The Right Fight
by BACKSEAT DRIVER By Dong Magsajo - September 14, 2005 - 12:00am
Last week, as members of Congress were taking all day to explain why they either chose to support or oppose the Congress’ Justice Committee decision to junk the impeachment complaints against a beleaguered President...
Going Around in Circles Part II
by BACKSEAT DRIVER By Dong Magsajo - August 17, 2005 - 12:00am
The last time this writer was at the steering wheel in this column, we gave our two centavos worth on the matter of the ongoing Audi tug-o-war. Surprise, surprise! We got reactions from both sides of the Audi fence....
Going around in circles
by BACKSEAT DRIVER By Dong Magsajo - July 20, 2005 - 12:00am
A few weeks back, we featured a story about the brewing drama between Audi AG of Germany and their disgruntled erstwhile local business partner, Auto Prominence. To those who missed out on that particular exchange,...
Hope down South
by BACKSEAT DRIVER By Dong Magsajo - May 25, 2005 - 12:00am
A recent trip to Cebu gave this writer the chance to hit quite a number of birds with one stone. There was, of course, the chance to get away from the hustle and bustle of Metro Manila’s dizzying traffic. There...
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