Believe it or not, there have now been GT-badged Kias for almost 15 years now. The original Cee’d and ProCee’d GT hatchback didn’t exactly set the world alight, but as smart and stylish warm hatches they weren’t half bad. The performance sub-brand has grown slowly but surely since then, perhaps most famously with the lovable […]

The Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadfoglio shows no sign of stopping, even after an entire decade without vast evolution, and this Luna Rossa – limited to ten units – makes sure the spirit of the old GTAm gets to live on too. It’s the work of Bottegafuoriserie, a tie-up between Alfa and Maserati’s ‘few-off’ divisions to […]

Don’t judge him, but back in the ’80s when things were so very different in so many ways, Shed was contractually obliged to attend photo shoots involving scantily-clad models and motorbikes. Actually, scantily clad is an exaggeration. Completely unclad would be more accurate. Charming girls to a fault, these professional models were so at ease […]

While Subaru in the UK is now much more about Outbacks and electric SUVs, the situation in Japan remains much more old school. At the Tokyo show this weekend, Subaru has confirmed half a dozen cars for its display: one is a rally car, one is a Super Taikyu touring car, three have STI badges […]

Aston Martin V8 Vantage Roadster S, 2013, 42.5k miles – sold for £38,000* Aston Martin has well and truly got its mojo back. The new Vanquish Volante made it onto the PH Favourite Car list in 2025, while the Vantage featured on our roundup the year before. However, only time will tell if either has […]

Having now been on sale for a decade, there can’t be very long left for the current Alfa Romeo Giulia. Towards the end of last year, it was suggested that it might continue till 2027, as Alfa’s EV strategy was reassessed – which doesn’t seem like a terrible idea in the current climate – but […]

It was a thrilling revelation. At the launch of the recent BMW 1 Series facelift – so hefty they gave it a new internal model code (F70 rather than F40) – the updated M135 lost its ‘i’ suffix but gained a tantalising new option. The M Dynamic Pack is a relatively sizeable £3,000 extra, though it […]

It wasn’t so long ago that Volvos were fairly nondescript family-focused machines, great at getting the job done but hardly objects of true desire. There were some handsome saloons, wagons and SUVs made, though nothing properly covetable. How things have changed; we can all debate when exactly that happened, but the important thing is that […]

History is littered with British sports cars. Big, small, fast, slow, affordable and expensive, we can’t get enough of two-door, two-seaters. Britain does it better than anyone. And actually there’s still plenty out there today, despite the doom and gloom, from Lotus Emira to Morgan Supersports and Ariel Atom to Caterham Seven. While there are […]

While we should probably be grateful for any kind of motor show in 2026, it’s hard to imagine Brussels ever ranking as one of the major ones. Even by current standards, it’s a pretty small event, which makes it the ideal place for Renault to give the new Twingo E-Tech Electric its public debut. The […]