Shed, the notorious car enthusiast, has chosen a 2004-05 MG ZT+ as his first contender for Shed of the Year 2025. The car boasts a 190hp V6 engine, a manual gearbox, and a potential Firefrost Red paint job. Shed acknowledges the car's capable performance and willing chassis, but warns of its less economical tendencies. The choice marks a departure from Shed's usual automotive preferences, hinting at a possible shift in his tastes.
Good Lord - a Shed of the Year 2025 contender right out of the gate! With one minor drawback...They don’t do New Year’s resolutions in the Shed household. They do amnesties. The deal is that Mrs Shed doesn’t touch Shed with her frying pan as long as Shed doesn’t touch, set eyes on, mention in passing, or accidentally think about the postmistress.
Last year Shed managed three headache-free days before the unpapered walls of the family residence once more resonated to the dolorous clang of aluminium on cranium. Mrs Shed’s choice of lightweight non-stick cookware for this job isn’t because she’s getting soft in her old age, by the way: it’s because it’s a lot harder to get Shed’s Brylcreem off her cast iron skillet. In contrast, Shed’s first selection of 2025 – a late, low-mileage, facelift with a 190hp V6 engine, a manual gearbox and what he thinks might be Firefrost Red paintwork – looks like it would be a pleasure to clean. You could argue, and maybe some will, that by the time MG Rover went into administration in 2005 it was producing some pretty good cars. Not everybody liked the 2004-05 facelift models, but if you could get past that the ZT (which appeared in MG brochures from 2001 right up to that fateful day in the spring of 2005) was a very capable machine with a willing chassis and a ride quality that was more than decent, if not quite as plush as the Rover 75’s. You had to stir the motor up to 6,500rpm to attain max power, a tuneful if not especially economical process that could drop the mpg down from 29mpg combined to somewhere in the teens. Maximum torque of 181lb ft came in at 4,000rpm, the 0-60 was 7.7 seconds and the top whack was 141mph. Unless they’ve changed it since Shed pinned the VED table up on his wall, which is entirely possible, the CO2 emissions figure of 235g/km puts it into the mystery K* £415 tax bracket. The ‘+’ part of the name referred to the Plus pack which was the only official non-standard spec option for the ZT
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