Tony Middlehurst

1 week ago | pistonheads.com | Tony Middlehurst

Another Shed debutant today in the intriguing shape of this Volvo C30. Volvo called it a Sports Coupe, two words not normally associated with this outfit, but the spec of our shed hints that they might be justified on this occasion, so let’s give it a chance before we dismiss it. That isn’t exactly what happened when the C30 came out in 2006. The press quite liked the solidity of the three-door hatch, but they damned it with faint praise on the basis of it not handling as well as a Fiesta.

2 weeks ago | pistonheads.com | Tony Middlehurst

Shed has been feeling guilty recently. All the cars he’s been bringing you have been tripped up by UK vehicle excise duty, a tax designed for the express purpose of putting peppy and perfectly useable old motors off British roads. To make amends for his failings, in this week’s SOTW research effort Shed has widened his search pattern to take in cars that are less powerful and therefore potentially less interesting, but also certainly less expensive to run.

2 weeks ago | pistonheads.com | Tony Middlehurst

Available for £112,000 4.0-litre V8 twin-turbocharged petrol, all-wheel drive Sportier than a W12 and not much slower than it BMW’s iDrive infotainment is arguably better… …but the Bentley is so much more special in so many ways If you can afford it, a real treat for your family (and yourself) Designed, engineered and hand-crafted in Britain for launch in the summer of 2019, the third generation of the Flying Spur was described by Bentley as a unique combination of limousine luxury and sports...

3 weeks 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.

3 weeks 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.