Author Darryl Sleath

Jenatzy was a larger-than-life Belgian race car driver at a time when most the Flatland’s turnip-eating peasantry wouldn’t have even seen a motor car. At the turn of the last century these mechanical...

Is it possible for a Formula One car to drive through Monaco's infamous Portier tunnel upside down? Well, the short answer is yes. Assuming you can solve a few technical wrinkles relating to oil and fuel...

We are about to wade into a thorny conundrum – a daydream dilemma that’s been fretted over by every car nut that’s ever bought a lottery ticket: how to pick the perfect three-car garage. Of course,...

The De Tomaso Pantera might not be the best known seventies supercar, but it certainly has the most colourful backstory. In this ten-minute treat from Carfection, our chum Alex Goy takes you on a fact-packed...

Everyone knows that the Beatles loved their motors. Ringo once bought a Facel Vega right off the stand at the 1964 Earl’s Court Motor Show, and was dailying a '60’s Mustang until fairly recently. John...

Planning a post-pandemic road trip? Well, you're not alone. Most motoring researchers reckon that in a post-COVID world, more and more folks will be shunning the budget airlines and rental cars in favour...

Crude, gutless and rejected by the military, this is the unlikely story of how the reinvented Moke charmed civvy street to become a '60s style icon. In downtown Los Angeles is the Museum of Failure, a...

This is the potted history of console-based racing sims over the last forty years, and it's certain to get many MotorPunks of a certain age screaming at their monitors "I had one of those!" However, our...

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...