A few weeks back, when I got a sneak peek at the
BT-50 Pangolin, I had quite an experience heading back from what was just an hour-long shoot. Just as I reached the entrance of the South Luzon Expressway, I got wind that a girder fell off the Skyway, causing a monstrous jam. By the time I hit the Carmona area, it was already stop-and-go traffic. The result was a six-hour drive—four and a half on the expressway, and one and a half on EDSA just to get back home. It was, not just a test of bladder control (zero pee breaks, ye all), but of bodily endurance as well. It’s also times like this when I realized that all Mazda’s talk about
Jinba-Ittai and
Skyactiv-Vehicle Architecture talk is real. Believe the hype.
