Author Dan Anslow

This is a big story for us motorists to watch and it’s hard not to call it a good idea. Drivers who hog the middle-lane or tailgate other cars could face on-the-spot fines of £100 and three points on their l...

Fat is definitely good when it comes to 911s, and over the years only the fastest and most expensive 911s have enjoyed the benefit of a chunked-up, wide-arch tail section. Unless it's a limited-run car. And for...

The UK’s fastest one-make racing series comes to Brands Hatch again this weekend, and with championship leader Bradley Smith winning four-from-four so far, the rest of the field will be racing on maximum atta...

BMW has tweaked up the M5’s styling to match a recent 5 Series model facelift, but along with the facial refresh, the new M5 can now be had with the rather tempting-sounding Competition Package, making it the...

It’s true that the game of supercars is all about harder, faster, stronger. You’d get laughed out of the supercar boys’ club as a manufacturer if you released something that wasn’t at least 10 per cent ...

Judging by the sound this 208 T16 makes, it's clearly a super-serious racecar. Lightning-quick, full-throttle gear changes, absolutely thumping boost from the 3.2-litre, V6 twin-turbo motor, and neck-snapping b...

For 30 years Nismo has been heating up Nissan models and their latest work on the 370Z is more than just a gentle warm through. Sharper styling, beefier brakes and suspension, and an extra 15bhp of shove makes ...

Tuning or modifying cars is a costly and time-consuming process that can bring joy, excitement, high blood pressure and bankruptcy to those that do it. Messing around with what car manufacturers spend a ton of ...

I’ll eat my Davy Crockett hat if you don’t play this Audi R8 V10 plus dyno video at least three times.  It’s short, very sweet and burrows deep into a petrolhead’s pleasure cortex – or whatever tha...

It must be quite difficult for the Aston Martin designers to come up with exciting concept cars when the brand already makes and sells one of the most alluring, concept-like sportscars ever to turn a wheel; the...

Colin Chapman, the famed Lotus engineer of old, would design his cars using his now well-oiled mantra: Adding power makes you faster on the straights. Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere. Wise words ...

Another day, another even faster Mercedes AMG breaks cover. It seems that the AMG engineers have upped their coffee intake recently and ECUs are getting reflashed and cam timings fettled in a seemingly endless ...

It’s not new news that Honda is to resurrect their highly respected NSX supercar moniker, with the new hybrid NSX scheduled to go on sale in 2015. What is news however is that the all-new car will be engineer...

More power, exclusive styling and a quicker to-62mph sprint time earn the fastest ever E-Class super-saloon its £83,740 price tag... (more…)...

Nine times world rally champion Sebastian Loeb’s been trying out his new 875bhp Pikes Peak Peugeot racer, and the flying Frenchman excitedly reports that it goes like a rocket! Indeed, it’s unlikely that th...

It seems that the petrolheads at VW aren’t going to let their Spanish cousins at Seat steal all the motorsport-inspired thunder at this year’s VAG enthusiasts Wörthersee show in Austria, on Lake Wörtherse...

A hardcore, full racing spec Seat Leon Cup Racer has been unveiled to customer racers and modifying fans all over the world, with a £60k price tag, 325bhp turbocharged motor and ultra aggressive, super-wide ae...

Sixty-two mph in just 3.4 seconds should do the trick, right? That’s 240bhp, around 450bhp per ton on the power-to-weight scale, and a top speed of around 150mph. Yes, wig wearers beware, it’s the new Cater...

You’ve got to hand it to McLaren. Not only do they build some deliciously vicious road cars, they also produce some suitably serious videos to promo their next motor – the 903bhp P1 hypercar. Just released ...

Ever fancied getting away from it all in something a little cooler than the family hatchback? Well, as family camping and road trip transport goes there’s surely not much more too-cool-for-school than these V...

We’re back at the famous Santa Pod drag strip and show ground again – where Performance Direct sponsors the left-hand drag racing lane – and this time we’ve got a nice ‘n’ juicy Motor-Vision show ...

It looks like the engineers at Audi get to have all the fun. They’ve just built this hot new TT ultra quattro concept to wow the crowds at the upcoming Wörthersee show in Germany; a huge event that celebrate...

Two of Ford’s fastest and finest handling STs hard-lapped around the quick and twisting Llandow racetrack, near Cardiff. Tyres died and high octane fuel was burned, all in the name of hardcore hot hatch testi...

One of the biggest, shiniest and fastest shows for all things Blue Oval built and RS powered rattled the scenery at Santa Pod yesterday, with plenty of big-bhp and big-dB drag strip action, miles of RS owners c...