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The £160 Gadget That Could Put Your Car at Risk
Picture this: you’ve locked your car, double-checked the doors, and strutted off feeling smug. Then along comes a bloke with what looks...
Mike Stamp
Aug 28, 20251 min read


How Long Do Batteries Last in Electric Cars?
Should you worry about your EV running out of puff? Spoiler: probably not. Imagine you’ve just spent sixty grand on a shiny new electric...
Mike Stamp
Aug 28, 20254 min read


Jaguar’s Greatest Hits and Misses: When the Big Cat Roared and When It Just Fell Asleep on the Sofa
Jaguar has always been a bit… unpredictable. One decade it’s producing the most beautiful car in the world, the next it’s bolting...
Mike Stamp
Aug 28, 20255 min read


Land Rover Defender Churchill Edition: A V8 Tribute to Britain’s Bulldog
Imagine Winston Churchill today. Not the cigar-chomping titan of 1940s newsreels, but a modern bloke in his mid-70s, squinting at his...
Mike Stamp
Aug 28, 20254 min read


Britain’s Roads: A National Joke with Craters to Prove It
I used to think the worst thing about driving in Britain was other drivers. Tailgaters, middle-lane hoggers, the odd bloke in a Nissan...
Mike Stamp
Aug 27, 20252 min read


F1’s Future Is Here: Think Less Mad Max, More Iron Man
The future of Formula 1 looks less like Mad Max, more like sci-fi thriller Formula 1 is about to get a little less “hold my beer” and a...
Mike Stamp
Aug 27, 20252 min read


ULEZ Compliance: VIP Pass or Daily Fine?
Picture this: you’ve just found the perfect car. The right colour, the right mileage, even the cup holders pass the vibe check. You’re...
Mike Stamp
Aug 25, 20252 min read


Insurance Write-Offs: Cheap Cars, Terrible Ideas, and the Odd Miracle
So, here’s the thing: when an insurer writes off a car, it doesn’t always mean it’s been folded in half like a deckchair in a hurricane....
Mike Stamp
Aug 25, 20253 min read


FSH Sounds Fancy — But Here’s What It Really Means
“Full Service History (FSH)” does sound reassuring, doesn’t it? Like the car equivalent of saying you’ve been to the dentist every six...
Mike Stamp
Aug 25, 20252 min read


Your tyres called. They’d like some attention.
Imagine this: you’re running late, coffee in one hand, Spotify battling with the satnav in the other. You jump in, hit the road… and...
Mike Stamp
Aug 25, 20252 min read


HP vs BHP: The Great Motoring Lie
BRMMM BRMMM! You know what’s always baffled me? Horsepower. Not because I don’t get it — obviously, I do. But because car manufacturers...
Mike Stamp
Aug 25, 20253 min read


Which Cars Actually Qualify for the UK’s New EV Grants – And What It Means for Your Wallet
So, here’s the headline grabber: the UK government has dangled a shiny £650 million pot of EV grants, promising up to £3,750 off a...
Mike Stamp
Aug 21, 20253 min read


Used BMW 5 Series (Mk7, 2017–2024): The Classy Exec That Still Knows How to Party
Some cars are brilliant at one thing. A hot hatch that corners like a caffeinated terrier. A luxury saloon that’s basically a leather...
Alex Stamp
Aug 18, 20255 min read


Alpine A290 - The Electric Hot Hatch That Refuses To Behave.
The Alpine A290 is Renault’s cheeky little electric hot hatch, and it’s coming to revive the joy of fun-sized performance cars without...
Alex Stamp
Aug 18, 20252 min read


UK Car Show 2025: Farnborough in Full Throttle
Car shows are funny things. You go in thinking you’ll just “have a look around”, maybe sit in something shiny, collect a tote bag, and...
Alex Stamp
Aug 17, 20254 min read


Your Road Trip’s Not a Netflix Series — You Can’t Just “Skip Intro”
You wouldn’t jet off for two weeks in Spain without checking your passport, packing your toothbrush, and making sure the kids aren’t...
Alex Stamp
Aug 11, 20253 min read


MOT Panic: What Actually Gets Checked
Let’s be honest — the MOT test creeps up on most of us like a dentist appointment we forgot to cancel. One minute your car’s just ticking...
Alex Stamp
Aug 8, 20255 min read


So, you’re about to buy your first car. Exciting, right?
So, you’re about to buy your first car. Exciting, right? Also slightly terrifying. And that’s totally okay! Getting your own car opens up...
Alex Stamp
Aug 8, 20255 min read


Everything You Need to Know About Finance (Without the Headache)
Let’s be real—car finance feels like the IKEA instructions of the adult world. You start off optimistic, but by step two you’re confused,...
Alex Stamp
Aug 6, 20253 min read


Don’t Freak Out Over Weird Car Smells
It hits you the second you open the door. A whiff. Not the nice kind. Definitely not the "freshly valeted, lemon-scented ambition" kind...
Alex Stamp
Aug 6, 20255 min read


Porsche 911 GT3 RS — The Road-Legal Obsession
There are sports cars designed to impress people outside a restaurant. And then there’s the Porsche 911 GT3 RS. A machine engineered by people who probably consider “comfort” to be a design flaw and “reasonable” to be something that happens to other manufacturers. Because this thing isn’t really a car in the traditional sense. It’s a scalpel with number plates. Every vent, every carbon-fibre blade, every ridiculous aerodynamic surface exists for one purpose only:to annihilate


The Jaguar XJ220: The Supercar That Arrived From The Future And Terrified Everyone
There are fast cars. There are rare cars. And then there’s the Jaguar XJ220 — a machine so wildly ambitious, so brutally futuristic, that when it arrived in the early 1990s it made everything else look like it had been engineered with a spoon and mild optimism. This wasn’t just Jaguar building a supercar. This was Jaguar marching into a room full of Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Porsches, slamming a set of blueprints onto the table and saying: “Right. Move aside.” And for a brie


Dodge Charger R/T: The Moment America Decided Subtlety Was Overrated
The late 1960s and early 1970s were a completely ridiculous period in automotive history. Manufacturers looked at rising fuel concerns, tightening safety regulations and growing public anxiety about horsepower… and responded by building enormous V8-powered lunatic machines capable of liquefying rear tyres at a moment’s notice. And perhaps the maddest of them all was the Dodge Charger R/T. Because this wasn’t merely a car. It was America on four wheels. Long bonnet.Aggressive


Porsche 911 GT3 RS — The Road-Legal Obsession
There are sports cars designed to impress people outside a restaurant. And then there’s the Porsche 911 GT3 RS. A machine engineered by people who probably consider “comfort” to be a design flaw and “reasonable” to be something that happens to other manufacturers. Because this thing isn’t really a car in the traditional sense. It’s a scalpel with number plates. Every vent, every carbon-fibre blade, every ridiculous aerodynamic surface exists for one purpose only:to annihilate


The Jaguar XJ220: The Supercar That Arrived From The Future And Terrified Everyone
There are fast cars. There are rare cars. And then there’s the Jaguar XJ220 — a machine so wildly ambitious, so brutally futuristic, that when it arrived in the early 1990s it made everything else look like it had been engineered with a spoon and mild optimism. This wasn’t just Jaguar building a supercar. This was Jaguar marching into a room full of Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Porsches, slamming a set of blueprints onto the table and saying: “Right. Move aside.” And for a brie


Dodge Charger R/T: The Moment America Decided Subtlety Was Overrated
The late 1960s and early 1970s were a completely ridiculous period in automotive history. Manufacturers looked at rising fuel concerns, tightening safety regulations and growing public anxiety about horsepower… and responded by building enormous V8-powered lunatic machines capable of liquefying rear tyres at a moment’s notice. And perhaps the maddest of them all was the Dodge Charger R/T. Because this wasn’t merely a car. It was America on four wheels. Long bonnet.Aggressive
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