Toyota has announced that the brand’s president, Akio Toyoda, is to take the helm of Toyota’s new EV (electric vehicle) division. The announcement was made yesterday, with Toyoda, who has been president of Toyota Motor Corporation since 2009, set to take on the position immediately where he joins executive vice […]
Alexi Falson
Alexi is an automotive road tester and news editor at PerformanceDrive. He appreciates the complexity of modern vehicle engineering and loves to keep his hands greasy working on motorbikes and cars. He prefers wagons over SUVs, vans over utes and reads more news than your Grandma.
Fiat heir Lapo Elkann allegedly fakes own kidnapping
The claims of an heir to the Fiat fortune are in disrepute after the man asserted he was kidnapped by a transgender sex worker. The man at the centre of the controversy, Lapo Elkann, is the great-great grandson of Giovanni Agnelli, the man that in 1899 founded Fabbrica Italiana Automobili […]
Mazda tops 2016 JD Power Customer Service Index
Mazda has taken out the top spot in the annual J.D. Power customer service survey, with Toyota and Subaru rounding out the top three. The Japanese domination of the podium was headed by Mazda who managed a score of 834 index points, ahead of Toyota’s 824, Subaru’s 816, and fourth-place […]
BMW, Daimler, Ford, VW collaborate for EV charging infrastructure
BMW, Daimler, Ford along with Volkswagen Group have announced an unprecedented collaboration to a create high-powered charging infrastructure on major highways across the European continent, to entice the public to move toward an electric vehicle. In one of the biggest collaborations between rival manufacturers ever seen, the unprecedented joint venture […]
McLaren 570S Track Pack announced, gets bespoke aero
McLaren has released a new “Track Pack” for its 570S that adds even more carbon fibre and includes upgrades exterior and interior. McLaren says the new track package is inspired by the brand’s recent GT3 and GT4 victories, and says it “exploits all the benefits of light weight and aerodynamic […]
BMW i8 driver stops traffic, frustrated commuter smashes windscreen with bat
A frustrated commuter in New York City has taken justice into his own hands and smashed the windscreen of a BMW i8 with a baseball bat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9D5fF5_9dc The i8 in question, covered in a gold vinyl wrap, is owned by a popular YouTuber Coby Persin, who seemed to be blocking […]
Porsche expects to sell 20,000 Mission E units per year, hybrid Boxster considered – report
Porsche’s CEO has told media he expects Porsche to ship as many as 20,000 units of its upcoming all-electric Mission E each year when it reaches production in 2019, adding there may be a plug-in hybrid variant of the 718 Boxter on the way. Speaking with Automobilwoche, the man in […]
2017 European Car of the Year finalists announced
Finalists for the 2017 European Car of the Year awards have been unveiled, with seven offerings, from Citroen, Alfa Romeo, Toyota and more making the cut. More than thirty nominees for European Car of the Year were whittled down to just seven, with the top seven vehicles encompassing everything from […]