That was the City that many motoring journalists got to know like it was their own car because of an extraordinary event. That was the Honda Media Challenge, which allowed us to drive the City through a 1.5-kilometer dirt trial course for at least five weekends — pushing it to do handbrake turns, slides, racing lines, slow-in-fast-out maneuvers, through very uneven sandy and muddy terrain.
For 10 years, from 1998 to 2008, the Honda Media Challenge with the City (and much later with the Jazz) survived the variety of driving styles of the motoring writers and road terrain it was staged on. All participants wanted to clock the fastest time, and take home the championship trophy.
Team Manila Bulletin took at least three of those overall championship trophies — the first one in 1998, and the two trophies for the Honda City 1.3 and the 1.5 categories in the following season. Taking the Fastest Driver award was Anjo Perez. The members of the first MB team were Aris Ilagan, Ding Marcelo, Rey Bancod, Anjo, and me.
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