The dark horse sub-compact
It was barely the break of day and the toll lanes were already packed, from darkness on the South Luzon Expressway all the way into the glaring, bright daylight of North Luzon Expressway, on the way to the Monasterio de Tarlac. Besides getting to the tourist spot/pilgrimage site for the first time, driving the newly-upgraded Nissan Almera sedan on the highway was something to look forward to. For obvious reasons, driving it in bumper-to-bumper Skyway traffic every morning into the Makati central business district did not exactly present the ideal conditions for the model to show its best performance.