With excitement growing around Alfa Romeo’s upcoming flagship model, known as the Giulia, reports are now uncovering possible powertrain and performance specs. The Alfa Romeo Giulia, name unconfirmed, will reportedly be based on the Giorgio rear-wheel drive platform and will be offered with a new 1.8-litre twin-turbo powertrain pushing out […]
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.
New Bugatti Veyron ‘Chiron’; 500km/h speedo, within 20L/100km
Reports are surfacing detailing more of the technical specifications and unbelievable power of the Bugatti Veyron successor, dubbed the Chiron. Bugatti is set to once again throw down the hypercar gauntlet with the new model, apparently wanting it to hit the 0-100km/h mark in just 2.0 seconds. There’s also speak […]
Video: Can you drive an Audi A7 Sportback on the sand?
Audi’s famed Quattro all-wheel-drive system has won the company countless championships across many facets of automotive racing, and now the system has taken a two-tonne sedan through mountainous sand dunes in Dubai. Audi released this promotional clip of its A7 Sportback cruising through the streets of Dubai, and then out […]
Lotus SUV under development, here by 2020 – report
Lotus is currently developing a new crossover SUV a report has revealed, which will be produced in Lotus’s new factory in China. The English manufacturer in years past has suffered some serious financial hardship, but its latest move is expected to bring Lotus back into the black with its ambitious […]
Toyota to sell $4.2b in shares to fund fuel cell development
The world’s largest manufacturer Toyota has announced it is planning on selling more than $4 billion worth of shares to secure funding for research and development for fuel cell technology. The company is expected to sell more than 150 million unlisted shares, nicknamed “Model AA” after Toyota’s first passenger car, […]
Video: BMW X5 xDrive40e stars in Mission Impossible – Rouge Nation
There’s a new Mission Impossible – Rouge Nation trailer out, and by the looks of it BMW has cosied up to the franchise yet again, with the X5 playing a large part of the short clip. The model in question is the X5 xDrive40e, BMW’s plug-in hybrid version of the […]
2016 Subaru WRX & WRX STI revealed, new in-car tech
Subaru has released a number of updates for the 2016 model year version of its iconic WRX and WRX STI performance sedans. The updates are for the US market specifically at this stage, but are likely to land in Australia later this year. The base WRX will be offered in […]
Audi Q6 to be “sexy” and “sporty”, here in 2018 – CEO
Germans, there’s absolutely no doubting they make a damn fine beer, sausage and car. However, the one thing they aren’t normally famed for is their flair, that’s usually provided by the Italians. Alas, during an interview with Auto Express specifying Audi’s upcoming all-electric BMW X6 rival, likely called the Q6, […]