Tony Middlehurst

England

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Jaguar F-Type R P575 | PH Used Buying Guide

4 days ago | pistonheads.com | Tony Middlehurst

Available for £50,000 5.0-litre supercharged V8 petrol, all-wheel drive You won’t feel the need for more performance or comfort 2020-on facelift cars were much improved in both drive and reliability Infotainment isn’t Pivi Pro They don’t make it any more, so it could be one to buy and enjoy Today we’ll be looking at the last and most powerful V8 iteration of the Jaguar F-Type, namely the 2020-on facelift F-Type R P575 with a supercharged 5.0 litre V8 producing 575hp – the same as the previous...
Mercedes E320 CDI (W211) | Shed of the Week

6 days ago | pistonheads.com | Tony Middlehurst

If you’re one of the eight people on the planet who haven’t seen Star Wars, this week’s Shed is Luke Skywalker’s T-65B X-wing Starfighter. Oh all right then, it’s actually a 2006 Mercedes W211 E320 CDI Sport, a charity auction item for St Helena, which Shed thinks is a hospice in Essex. That tallies with the dealer’s location in Manningtree. This is where earthly geography ends because this car is from another dimension, one possibly fuelled by lager.
Shed of the Week | Mercedes E320 CDI (W211)

6 days ago | pistonheads.com | Tony Middlehurst

If you’re one of the eight people on the planet who haven’t seen Star Wars, this week’s Shed is Luke Skywalker’s T-65B X-wing Starfighter. Oh all right then, it’s actually a 2006 Mercedes W211 E320 CDI Sport, a charity auction item for St Helena, which Shed thinks is a hospice in Essex. That tallies with the dealer’s location in Manningtree. This is where earthly geography ends because this car is from another dimension, one possibly fuelled by lager.
Dacia Spring | PH Fleet

1 week ago | pistonheads.com | Tony Middlehurst

So, on a website whose founding motto was ‘speed matters’, here we are driving a car where speed – or top speed at least – would appear to play little part in the proceedings. The Dacia Spring that we’ll be running for a few months still feels important though. At its launch in mid-2024, it was the UK’s most affordable new electric car.
Jaguar XJ SE | Shed of the Week

1 week ago | pistonheads.com | Tony Middlehurst

A honey-smooth dose of lounge-lizardry with a side order of schmooze this week with this rather nice powder blue Jag XJ. Is it nice though? Potentially, yes. We had an indigo blue one of these on here last June, an ’03 Sport with 167,000 miles and a £2,000 price tag on it. The MOT on that car expired a couple of weeks ago. Despite the last test coming up squeaky clean and the ones before it raising no cause for alarm, it has not yet been put in for another one.
Peugeot RCZ GT | Shed of the Week

2 weeks ago | pistonheads.com | Tony Middlehurst

There’ll probably be some mooing in the back rows this week as the ‘no comeback’ disclaimers for this week’s Shed get promoted from their usual quick mention at the end of the ad to headline status. We’ll get onto why this car is being disowned in a minute, but first let’s celebrate the SOTW debut of something that few expected to see in Peugeot showrooms, let alone Shed of the Week.
Porsche Cayman GT4 (981) | PH Used Buying Guide

3 weeks ago | pistonheads.com | Tony Middlehurst

Available for £56,0003.8-litre boxer six nat-asp petrol, rear-wheel driveA fabulous all-round driving machineMost ‘flaws’ are more about a search for perfectionA rawer experience than the 718 successorValues remain very firm ten years on The 981 Porsche Cayman GT4 was announced in February 2015 in response to basically ten years’ worth of shouting for a high-performance, track-capable Cayman.
Vauxhall Vectra 3.0 CDTI | Shed of the Week

3 weeks ago | pistonheads.com | Tony Middlehurst

Ever since his apprenticeship days building Class 55 Deltic locos at English Electric’s Vulcan foundry in Newton-le-Willows, Shed has been partial to a big diesel. To this day he runs a Mercedes S124 wagon powered (ha!) by an OM606 3.0 straight-six oil burner. He won’t hear a bad word said about it. To be more accurate he won’t be able to hear a bad word said about it, on account of all the clattering.
Toyota GR86 | PH Used Buying Guide

1 month ago | pistonheads.com | Tony Middlehurst

Available for £27,5002.4-litre flat-four, rear-wheel driveBigger engine largely plugged the GT86’s torque hole Revamped chassis still great, though steering maybe wasn’t quite as goodOne spec fitted all and there was no room in the backPrices finally starting to come down a bit but still highGuess when the original Toyota GT86/Subaru BRZ went on sale? The answer might surprise you. 2012. That’s right, 13 years ago.
Mercedes-Benz E350 CDI | Shed of the Week

1 month ago | pistonheads.com | Tony Middlehurst

Yes folks, it’s that time again, eyes down and dobbers out for a quick round of your favourite SOTW game, ‘if it was that simple to fix, the dealer would have done it by now’ bingo! To give you time to get your pens and papers out we’ll start by rambling on about the gen-four W212 E-Class which first popped up in 2009 at the Geneva show. In time-honoured fashion, Mercedes called the coupé you’re looking at here an E350 even though it was actually built on the W204 C-Class platform.