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In this latest edition of Esquire Garage, the man at the wheel of the country's biggest and most storied auto club gives us an inside look on his cars fostering freedom in his life, his love for classic European cars like the 1994 Mercedes Benz, his sentimentality for the 1976 Toyota Corolla, and his passion for championing safer driving for future generations.
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00:00I remember my mom was telling me when I was a baby, one of the first few words I mentioned
00:07was vroom vroom.
00:18When I was 10, I was really fond of cars.
00:24If I recall it right, that was my fondest memory because it was my first time.
00:30To ride in the driver's seat, and eventually at 12, it was the first time I started a car.
00:43Our family revolved around cars.
00:47My dad was a car collector and a restorer, so it was really in the genes, if I may say,
00:55that I inherited through my father.
00:57That, until now, I still enjoy driving fast cars and restoring ones.
01:08Well, my first car, it's a 1976 Toyota Corolla KE30.
01:13It was given to me by my father when I was, I think, second-year high school.
01:17It was rusted, a rusted car.
01:19But that was the moment I realized that this is it.
01:23It's finally my turn to have my own car.
01:31Well, probably if you come and see my garage, it's a mixed variety of cars that I have.
01:37I have a car which I enjoy driving every day.
01:42I have a car which I enjoy doing adventures with it.
01:45I have a car which I can enjoy and have quality time with my family.
01:50So, it's a mixed variety of cars that I have inside my garage.
01:59Of course, when I'm driving on public roads, I shouldn't still be doing what's right in driving.
02:05But in rallying, you go flat out because it's a controlled chaos, which I cannot do it on the public
02:12roads.
02:17The foundation of AAP was really to two things.
02:21Number one is road safety and motorsport.
02:25So, when you ask people whose AAP is not about towing, it's not about the commercial business aspect of it.
02:31It's about two things that right now, we're trying our best to instill road safety to our motoring public.
02:39We're doing different programs, grassroots programs to entice more new drivers to get into the sport.
02:46So, probably that will be the only way that AAP should be going and making sure that it happens.
03:00Well, like what I always say in my interviews, it's all about enforcement.
03:05It's all about discipline on the road.
03:07It's really us who will have to make a difference for us to be a world-class motoring driving country.
03:16So, we should start from us.
03:20I want to try a little bit more.
03:21We'll see you in a little bit.
03:22We'll see you in a little bit.
03:24We'll see you in a little bit.
03:31You'll check out the video.
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