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Check out the cover car

Ah, 2009. A time when the Black Eyed Peas were all over the airwaves, Manny Pacquiao's fights were nation-stopping events, and the US economic recession was in full swing. It was also the year that this very website first went

Made with love in the PH

Have you always dreamed of being the next big thing online? Or maybe you've gotten tired of all the toxicity on Facebook? Why not try downloading and hanging out on Kumu, a Filipino-made live-streaming app?Summit Media, TopGear.com.

You deserve the best content

The age of the audience has arrived.This declaration set the tone of Summit Media's 2017 Digital Summit, attended by around a thousand participants from the advertising industry. The annual digital conference was held August 8 at the Samsung Hall, SM

Shall we cruise?

If you're viewing this on a mobile device and can't see the video, please click here. We recently got our hands on the popular Ultimate Lightning McQueen toy from Sphero, which lights up, talks, and drives through an app on

Here's what it signifies

Summit Media launches its new logo today to signify the growing importance of its digital properties to its overall media portfolio. The publisher's 15 websites reach an average of 22 million unique viewers monthly, making it the leading lifestyle digital network

It has changed car shopping, too

If you were sold a lemon vehicle a decade ago, how would you report the situation to the automotive company? If you were interested in a new car model 10 years ago, was a visit to a dealership the first step you'

FHM crushes on our managing editors

Okay, we'll admit it: We've always had a crush (harmless, promise) on our two managing editors--Stephanie Asi-de Castro (print) and Tracy Carpena (online). They're so gorgeous in our eyes that we even made them Traffic Stoppers and

#PassionOn

We can't count how many times we've been approached by people telling us how cool our job is, and we humbly acknowledge the blessings that have come our way. But as the recently concluded NBA Finals series has shown, you

In the publication's June 2015 issue

Say what you will about the guy, but Willie Revillame is extremely popular. Extremely blessed, too, as evidenced by his ownership of truly expensive cars--including a Ferrari 458 Spider and a Rolls-Royce Ghost. And we know that not a few

Just another day at the office

There's this popular Top Gear shirt that says, "I am the Stig." The Stig, of course, is the nonspeaking race car driver in white overalls who test-drives cars on your favorite automotive TV show. And the shirt we're referring

The motoring industry is big business

They say that if something untoward had happened during the launch of Forbes Philippines early this week, the Philippine economy would have been directly affected. Forbes Philippines is the newest magazine of our parent company, Summit Media, and its formal introduction was

Keeping up with the times

You know mobile-device penetration has reached critical mass when even store clerks and fruit-stall vendors use tablet devices when they're killing time. This is a sign that the era of e-magazines is here, when almost anyone can buy

Have you downloaded your digital copy?

Top Gear Philippines is currently the fourth-best-selling local magazine on the Buqo digital newsstand. Buqo is the fast-growing online magazine store where you can download locally produced magazines. Our August 2014 issue is among the four most downloaded magazines

Effective April 15, 2014

Comedian and Internet celebrity Ramon Bautista will take over the reins of Top Gear Philippines beginning April 15. Bautista, who actually did a comics-style column for the magazine in 2012, is replacing outgoing EIC Vernon B. Sarne, who has accepted an

For all the collectors out there

Our boss, Summit Media president Lisa Gokongwei-Cheng, cut the ribbon at yesterday's formal launch of the Lexus Gallery in Robinsons Magnolia. To show their appreciation, Lexus Manila chairman Alfred Ty and president Danny Isla gifted her with a special-edition

Including a chapter on motoring

We Filipinos make the wittiest and funniest signs--either by design or by mistake--in the world. From the old \"Basta Driver, Sweet Lover\" quote to the hilarious \"Facebool\" spoof on a pedicab selling fishballs, we never seem to run out of

Making online car-shopping easy

Get Sold Corporation, a joint venture between international media and technology company Ringier AG and Top Gear Philippines publisher Summit Media, partied the night away on April 18 to celebrate the success of its new baby, the car classifieds website MyCars.ph.