According to international reports, Porsche is set to unveil a unique new Porsche Panamera wagon concept car at the 2012 Paris Motor Show in September. (Rendered speculation only) The Porsche Panamera is currently Porsche’s only sedan offering, with four doors and a decent sized boot. Word has it Porsche may […]
Brett Davis
Brett is the editor and founder of PerformanceDrive. He's obsessed with driving, having played with Matchbox cars until he was tall enough to drive a real one. After initially working as a mechanic, Brett earned a degree in journalism and entered media as an editorial assistant at Top Gear Australia magazine. He then worked at CarAdvice. His dream is to live next door to the Nurburgring in Germany.
2012 BMW M5 preview
The new 2012 BMW M5 is one of only a handful of vehicles – including supercars – currently on sale in Australia with over 400kW of power straight from the factory. We thought we’d take the new model over to Marulan Driver Training Centre test track for our upcoming review. […]
FPV GT limited edition ‘Panther’ to be revealed next week
FPV has released a teaser image of the new FPV GT limited edition onto its Facebook page. The new model will be revealed next week, and is expected to be the ‘Panther’ model that was rumoured last month. No other details of the new car have been revealed at this […]
Video: Porsche Archive Museum with complete collection: part 1
Porsche has released the first of a multi-part video series which showcases the new Porsche Archive Museum, not open to the public. The museum features a complete collection of Porsche vehicles, including special one-off prototypes and rare race cars. The secret storage facility is located somewhere in Stuttgart and contains […]
Overfinch Range Rover Sport GTS-X with 429kW
Range Rover aftermarket specialist Overfinch has created a new package of the Sport, called the Overfinch Range Rover Sport GTS-X. It showcases vast revisions to the interior and exterior, as well as a modified engine. Under the bonnet the Sport GTS-X features a 5.0-litre supercharged V8. In standard form the […]
Walkinshaw Performance Holden Cruze priced from $48,485
Renowned Holden tuner Walkinshaw Performance has revealed the new Walkinshaw Holden Cruze hot hatch. It gets plenty of mechanical enhancements and increased engine power, as well as a number of styling tweaks inside and out. Holden doesn’t currently offer a proper hot hatch. It has the Cruze SRi-V, but it’s not […]
Opel: More Australian than you might think
Although Opel has never officially sold a vehicle locally, in the Sixties and Seventies the German brand had a strong influence on some of Australia’s most iconic cars. The Holden Commodore, for one, borrowed a platform from Opel since the first model came out in 1978, the VB Commodore. It […]
BMW M builds a Z3 with a V12 engine
BMW’s performance team at M Division have built a interesting and fairly wild engine conversion for the old BMW Z3, shoehorning a big V12 engine into the engine bay. We’ve seen a Z3 with a BMW M5 V10 engine, but this takes it to a whole new level. Images of […]