Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Let's Do The News! (February 19, 2014)

The big scoop today...

- The politician's favorite, the Ford Expedition, is now refreshed for the 2015 model year and it's loaded with even more luxury and convenience fit for the politicians. For the first time ever, the old 5.4L Triton V8 engine has been thrown away for good and replaced by 3.5L EcoBoost V6 engine. No specs have been told but Ford promises it will develop V8-like power output on a turbocharged V6 engine.

2015 Ford Expedition

- General Motors Thailand celebrated the production of its millionth vehicle since operations began 14 years ago at the Rayong plant. This plant houses 4,300 employees and it's one of the five GM plants built outside North America in the late 90's.

- Opel and Vauxhall revealed the production Adam Rocks micro crossover and it's set for its debut at next month's Geneva Motor Show. It will be powered by an all new 1.0L Ecotec three-cylinder turbo engine developing 113HP of power.

Vauxhall has small urban crossover seriously named 'Adam Rocks'
2015 Vauxhall/Opel Adam Rocks

- On the Fiat side, they have their own nippy little crossover based on the new Panda. Called the Panda Cross, it's based on the 4x4 model but with some offroad-inspired bits that makes it thing it's ready for adventure.

2015 Fiat Panda Cross

- Last February 16 (US Time), Miley Cyrus stuffed a fan's thong in her mouth while performing at her Bangerz Tour show. The tour kicked off in Vancouver, Canada in the 14th of February and hey, there's no stopping Miley being a bad influence to many. He he he...

- Senator Tito Sotto was pleased about the decision from the Supreme Court about legalizing online libel. He said that "with or without the cybercrime law, libel is libel". Even President Noynoy Aquino supported the Court's ruling.

- Despite controversies between them, Kris Aquino decides to allow her ex-husband James Yap to have better relationship with her son Bimby. She explained this from the February 17 episode of Aquino & Abunda after reporting about her ex-husband's 32nd birthday along with Bimby and Josh last Saturday.

- A report from Top Gear PH pointed out that one of the readers told about a mysterious Facebook page claiming that it was organizing some kind of illegal racing happening on the 22nd of February at the TURF BGC.

- Sad news for BioShock fans that the developer Irrational Games is shutting down for good. The recent BioShock game was BioShock Infinite, which was released by 2K Games last year.

- The first trailer of MARVEL'S GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY has arrived!



TTFN!!!

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