AN INTERNATIONAL Southampton sports star revealed his love of cars after tweeting a picture of a car worth tens of thousands of pounds.

Iwan Thomas, who is from Netley, posted a picture on his Twitter account of a grey and black Mercedes-AMG C 63 Coupé, which can be worth more than £61,000.

The caption accompanying the photo read: “10 days & counting.”

Thomas said: “I am changing the colour of the car, I am a bit of a petrol head and I have been forever.

“It is a Mercedes C63 AMG in all black at the moment but I saw the picture of the one on the internet in grey with black grills and I am getting that done.

“I am a bit nervous because it looks great as it is but I saw the picture and thought it looked really, really good.

“It is just my everyday car - it is a good car unless you’re worried about your miles to the gallon, it gets about nine miles per gallon.”


Thomas, who regularly runs the Netley Abbey parkrun event, has represented Great Britain at various Olympic games and picked up the silver medal in the 1996 games in Atlanta for the 400 metre sprint.

He recently appeared on Strictly Come Dancing and can currently be seen on the BBC Two show Natural Born Winners.