Dan Prosser

Bristol

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Man Maths: Audi TT RS

Dec 7, 2024 | the-intercooler.com | Dan Prosser

If ever there were a sports car that really didn’t deserve that moniker, it must be the Audi TT. Call it a performance car or even a sports coupé, but that particular phrase – sports car – means something different. At least to me. A sports car is one designed from a clean sheet for that very purpose. They’re packaged and laid out with driving dynamics as the top priority. A110s, 911s and MX-5s are sports cars. They are not related to more humdrum vehicles in any way.
Top Gun: E30 BMW M3 v Porsche 911 Club Sport

Dec 5, 2024 | the-intercooler.com | Dan Prosser

At Ti we think carefully about every story we run. Okay, almost every story. On the happy day that Gordon Murray’s people ring up and ask me over to try a T.50, I can’t see the deliberations dragging for long, but the rest of the time we have to think and think hard. Which is why most of the ideas that come our way get turned around at the door. And when we think about what stories might work, it is to you we turn.
Man Maths: Jaguar XFR

Nov 23, 2024 | the-intercooler.com | Dan Prosser

Well, that was quite the week for one of Britain’s best known car makers. While its incumbents are busy deleting ordinary and creating exuberant – and while we await the full reveal of the new concept car in the early hours of 3 December – I’ve been thinking about some of my favourite recent Jaguars. And the XFR is certainly one of those. The first arrived in 2009 and was soon facelifted with the sleeker, far more attractive front end, seen here, in 2011.
First among sequels? Original Audi R8 v R8 GT

Nov 21, 2024 | the-intercooler.com | Dan Prosser

Take it from me, when a Nevada state trooper approaches the car you have just been driving at a substantially illegal speed across his wilderness, it is time to be scared. And when the sun glances off his mirror shades and dazzlingly white teeth as his hand reaches into his holster, you’ll start scanning the horizon for itinerant underwear vendors earning a living in the Mojave Desert.
Jaguar’s new brand identity

Nov 19, 2024 | the-intercooler.com | Dan Prosser

The Jaguar reinvention drip, drip, drip continues. Last week it was a handful of photographs of a heavily camouflaged development prototype. This week it’s the reveal of nothing less than an all-new brand identity, says Jaguar. And no, that’s not the background cast of – they are the sort of exuberant, creative and artistic people to whom the next generation Jaguars are designed to appeal, it seems.
Woman Maths: BMW 7 Series (E38)

Nov 16, 2024 | the-intercooler.com | Dan Prosser

Of all the cars I’ve owned and driven, the E38-generation BMW 7 Series was the most popular with people at petrol stations (to which visits were depressingly frequent). Hardly a journey went by without a thumbs up or a road wave. For those insufficiently sad to know all their E-numbers by heart, the E38 was the third-generation 7er, built between 1994 and 2001 and the last before the revolutionary iDrive operating system made its debut on its E65 successor.
How to fix Maserati

Nov 14, 2024 | the-intercooler.com | Dan Prosser

Maserati has a problem, said one keen observer last month. He pointed out that the marque was losing money, its marketing was poor and its positioning in the market unclear. It’s just another opinion and everybody has one, except that this opinion belonged to Carlos Tavares, CEO of Stellantis, the group that owns Maserati. A week earlier Tavares had fired Davide Grasso, Maserati CEO since 2019, because of it.
Man Maths: Jaguar XE SV Project 8

Nov 2, 2024 | the-intercooler.com | Dan Prosser

If a 911 GT3 and a humdrum Jaguar saloon somehow had children, they’d probably look a lot like this. The XE SV Project 8 was many things – the most powerful Jaguar road car ever, the fastest four-door on the Nürburgring, a saloon car unlike any other and almost certainly one of the slowest selling Jaguars of all time. Jaguar planned to shift 300 – not exactly a production run to make Toyota quake with fear – but even that proved ambitious.
BMW M5 (G90) review

Oct 24, 2024 | the-intercooler.com | Dan Prosser

We rumble out of Munich heading north, six or seven brand new M5s running nose to tail. The Frozen Black car ahead has a racer’s stance, wide at the base like a pyramid, wheels pressed out to each corner. Another Speed Yellow M5 lurks in our rearview mirror like it might pounce. The bright pinstripe of light that illuminates the outline of the grille means you spot a new M5 long before you’ve worked out what it is, or how fast it’s coming at you.
Man Maths: Lamborghini Aventador

Oct 19, 2024 | the-intercooler.com | Dan Prosser

You’re either a Lamborghini person or you’re not. And to contradict myself in the very next sentence, I sit somewhere in the middle. The trouble is, if ever there was a supercar maker whose cars are bought more for their show than their go, Lamborghini is it. They are the show off’s supercar. Driving a Lamborghini makes you look very much like a Lamborghini driver. But you shouldn’t let that put you off.