Author Darryl Sleath

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...

Only a decade ago, if you’d got yacking with your chums about planning some long-distance automotive adventure, it would have conjured up images of sun-parched desert highways, Easy Rider and drop-top Yank...

At the turn of the millennium, when most hot-hatch boffins were busy lashing turbos to humdrum four-pots, Renault decided that their flagship pocket-rocket deserved something a little more avant-garde. A V6 in...

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...

We're long-time fans of the shirts knocked up by our chums at t-lab - clobber for the car fanatic that doesn't try too hard. Screen printed on 100% organic cotton, they aren't the cheapest Ts out there, but...

How things have changed! Porsche today makes about €2 billion profit per year, has broad mainstream appeal from its six model line-up and can now afford to chuck millions at courting new customers, through...

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,...

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...