Author Darryl Sleath

Just after Christmas I stumbled across an TED Talk by an American fella called Matt Cutts about the 30 Day Challenge, a little motivational trick to overcome that soul-sapping inertia you sometimes get when...

In the 1970s mk1 Minis were having their dinky rear lights cut out, bonkers-wide arches lashed on and their lovely brocade seats glossed with Dulux in botched attempts to make them look more modern. In the 80s...

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...

Ask any car-savvy forty-something about Sunbeam and the conversation usually goes one of two ways. If he’s a “glass half-full” kinda bloke then he’ll probably get all misty-eyed about the Talbot...

Who remembers when Formula One was about hungry drivers and oily garagistas sticking it to Ferrari with small budgets; British pluck and bags of ingenuity?  A time when those now regarded as legends were just...

So the sun is finally managing to break through the clouds and there’s a potential rollover on the Lottery. If one lucky MotorPunk were to get his numbers up, what should he buy for a bit of cruising along...

Our good chums over at T-Lab have kindly prepared a new batch of the MotorPunk Ts just in time for for your spring wardrobe's annual refresh. Available from a petite 'Bernie' sized Small to a whopping-great...

We love skidding; always have. But it was only last week when we were filming a new little feature for XCAR on the British Land Speed Record cars that the question came up: What was the World’s longest...

I’ve always loved Lego Technics, in fact I actually have the very first kits from 1977 (Set 850 Fork Lift and 851 Farm Tractor) which are now proudly on display in my fab new mancave. I passed on this love...