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As fans of classic cars we often chunter about how mundane the majority of modern cars seem to be, yet there is no doubting that modern cars have their advantages. As much as we talk about taking a family of five on holiday to the south of France in a Lancia...

Banger racing. It’s the past, and the future, and the most entertaining form of motorsport I’ve watched in a very long time. I had intended to watch the Russian Grand Prix highlights but after some selfish oaf spoiled the result for me I drove over to...

You don’t expect road safety campaigns to be high on the list of priorities of murderous batshit-crazy Middle Eastern dictators. Left with a pack of crayons and a sketch pad you’d expected someone like Colonel Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi to...

Ralph Bagnold is one of those Brits who quietly went about doing great things. He was a soldier, innovator, explorer, and feted amateur scientist. His odyssey of motor adventures melded the car to the desert in peace and war. After three years of the...

PCP Claims are an offshoot of Personal Contract Purchase (or PCP) which, in simple terms, is a form of finance you get from a finance company that makes you eligible to borrow and use a car from them. The way PCP works is that you will first be mandated to...

To get to the Moon you don’t just need to successfully get off the launch pad. You first need to get on the Launchpad. Hauling a rocket and its launch platform that weighs a combined 5200 odd metric tonnes and reaches 36 storeys off the ground, requires a...

MotorPunk doesn’t do stuff about fancy expensive watches. But thankfully, the Japanese G-Shock is neither of those things. Starting at around fifty quid, that rufty-tufty aesthetic isn’t just for show either: they were one of the first digital watches to...

It’s hard to throw away old cars mags but, as everything surges online and my office is overly-stuffed with dog-eared copies of publications that have long since vanished from the shelves of WHSmiths, it’s time to get recycling. I always have one last...

We all love a Cafe Racer. And if we apply what I see as the same basic recipe to classic British sports cars – leaner, cleaner and performance focussed - then we have a genre of motors that we at MotorPunk have coined the Café Roadster. And while that...