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1 day ago | 
pistonheads.com | Tony Middlehurst
Time to stoke up the fires of righteous indignation once more as we bring you this Peugeot 407 Coupe, a car almost guaranteed to generate high levels of frothing among the forum faithful. Shed brought us one of these 3.0 manual petrol 407s in early 2023, just after the SOTW limit had been controversially raised from £1,500 to £2,000. That ’23 shed was a 98,000-mile GT from 2006.
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6 days ago | 
pistonheads.com | Tony Middlehurst
Right, it’s time for part two of our running report on the Dacia Spring Extreme 65, still the cheapest and, at 951kg, the lightest electric vehicle on the UK market. Despite using it exclusively for darting between Powys townships, and despite owning three other cars, in three months we’ve managed to rack up well over 2,000 miles in our Spring.
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1 week ago | 
pistonheads.com | Tony Middlehurst
During a low mood the other day, Shed was looking at a website that promised to come up with an accurate prediction of when he might pass away. Unfortunately, once he’d finished tapping his medical and lifestyle details into the boxes and pressed Enter, the site told him he should have died eighteen and a half years ago.
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1 week ago | 
pistonheads.com | Tony Middlehurst
Available for £35,000Dual electric motors, all-wheel drivePredictably quick and classier than a TeslaCrazy amount of weight limits the driving funWell built and so far largely problem-freeYou can get a Taycan for the same money The G26 i4 M50 was the first all-electric M car. Prior to its announcement in late 2021, the number of M cars with a motor as well as the drive at the back had been the same as the number of fingertips on Ranulph Fiennes’ left hand, i.e. none.
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2 weeks ago | 
pistonheads.com | Tony Middlehurst
This week we will be viewing a blend of classic practicality and classy appeal in the commodious and executively posh shape of this Mercedes-Benz E 320 CDI wagon. Yes, we did have an E 320 CDI a couple of weeks back, but you can hardly count that as it was a Star Wars saloon with R2-D2 and C-3PO glued to the roof and a dirty great X-wing bolted to the bootlid. Today’s E 320 example is a far more sober affair.
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3 weeks ago | 
pistonheads.com | Tony Middlehurst
Every now and then, we welcome new cars to the Shedly fold. It’s always a delight to see once-expensive vehicles brought down by the ravages of time, taxation and a total lack of interest. This week’s entry will probably end up being both a debutant and a swansong at the same time.
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3 weeks 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...
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4 weeks 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.
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4 weeks 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.
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1 month 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.
