With customer demand overflowing for the new Ferrari 458 Speciale, some customers are apparently being forced to add optional extras to guarantee their order. High demand for the Speciale has led Ferrari to prioritise deliveries based on the total of optional extras a customer adds to their car, rather than […]
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.
VW investing $106 billion to overtake Toyota as largest carmaker
The battle to become the world’s largest manufacturer is well and truly heating up, with Volkswagen announcing it will invest US$106 billion over the next five years to meet its goal of becoming the biggest auto manufacturer by 2018. Volkswagen has shed some insight on its new business plan which […]
Audi Q8 sporty SUV confirmed, based on next-gen Q7
Audi has confirmed that it plans to produce a new range-topping Q8 SUV to take on the likes of the BMW X6 and upcoming Mercedes-Benz MLC, in the high-end coupe SUV class. The Q8 is set to lock horns with the likes of the BMW X6, Range Rover Sport and […]
Police seize 12 supercars in China after caught racing
Beijing media outlets are reporting that Chinese police have arrested one of the largest and most dangerous street racing crews, and confiscated all 12 supercars that have been involved in recent street races. The group of street racers were said to have escaped the cramped and congested streets of Hong […]
Video: Amazing record truck jump, leaps over Lotus F1 car
The Lotus F1 team and its major sponsor EMC have teamed up for a world record-breaking new marketing campaign which involves a Renault truck jumping over a moving F1 car. That’s right. In a short clip released online, a Renault semi trailer has set a new world record for the […]
Video: New world record tightest parallel park set in China
Do you think you’re a good parker? Think again. Chinese stunt driver Han Yue has broken the world record for the tightest parallel park, using the latest MINI Cooper S three-door. During the China Drift Championship held in Chongqing, and under the tight supervision of Guinness World Records staff, Han […]
$3.3m in high-end cars burnt to a crisp in Russia, possible arson attack
Around US$3.3 million worth of supercars have been destroyed in what Russian authorities are calling a possible arson attack near Red Square in Moscow. Only minutes away from Moscow’s famous Red Square, firefighters were called to stop the blaze that was raging in a private car park in the early […]
McLaren Sports Series ‘911 rival’ to debut in April 2015
McLaren has announced it is scheduling an April 2015 release for its latest baby supercar, the ‘Sports Series’. It will compete squarely at the likes of the Porsche 911. If the name seems a little confusing, bare with us a minute. Also known by its codename, the P13, the Sports […]