Paul Walker has joked that his Fast And Furious co-star Vin Diesel is terrible behind the wheel.

Taking advantage of the hardman’s absence from the press line-up at the film’s premiere in London, Paul slated Vin’s driving prowess.

Paul, who is a car junkie and owns 17 motors, said of his own driving: “I could kick the hell out of any one of these guys. He’s a horrible driver by the way. I promise, Vin Diesel can’t drive!”

The actor, who plays rogue policeman Brian O’Connor in the franchise, said he was blown away by how cool the special effects are in the movie.

“In the first one you know we had quite a few visual effects but it’s come leaps and bounds. I mean the stuff that they pulled off on this one, a few years ago it would’ve looked hooky, it just wouldn’t have looked right. It’s hard to tell now what’s real and what isn’t,” he said.

“I said to Justin (director Justin Lin) after seeing it the first time, ‘So this was fake, right?’ I was wrong like three or four times, he was like, ‘No actually that was practical, those were real cars there’, and I couldn’t tell the difference.”

Fast And Furious, which also stars Jordana Brewster and Michelle Rodriguez, opens in the UK on April 10.