People were also being asked to come forward if they saw a blue Vauxhall Vectra parked in a small lay-by across the road from Cherry Tree Cottage on Sunday.
And he certainly isn't the first secretary of state for Wales to do so - Labour's Paul Murphy faced flak for taking a similar journey (albeit in a more humble Vauxhall Vectra) more than a decade ago.
As a leading project engineer in 2002, Mark Apicella had been working on a project for the latest Vectra model, when the shock announcement came of the plant closure.
The prime minister gets an armour-plated Daimler, the deputy prime minister a Jaguar, cabinet ministers a Rover 800 or Vauxhall Omega and junior ministers (poor things) a Ford Mondeo, Vauxhall Vectra or Nissan Primera.