Chris Harris

And I think you can make the predecessor argument with just about every car at the moment.

And therefore, for me, and this is probably another topic of conversation next week, if you apply the predecessor argument, the cars that really succeed in that sphere are the ones that have been in production for a long time and are a bit long in the tooth.

suddenly you're thinking well actually there's a real benefit in being a bit of an old buddy daddy because you don't have all the stops quite the level of lane departure shite or some of the modern stuff I simply can't handle it's not there you're away and free aren't you I think the joke is they've even stopped it's sort of almost worse than that isn't it Audi R8 you can't buy one anymore can you

Well, yeah, part of the reaction to this crazy European Union electric vehicle push is that a whole load of cars have gone out of production.

But now there's probably a suggestion, if you're a car company boss, you'd be thinking, do you know what?

The reaction to this could mean that we could do this again.

I think so.

But the cost of retooling, the cost of doing it, will be so great, I don't think it'll happen.

I can't see it.

And what might happen, in my prediction, is that there'll be some very low-volume efforts.

And if I was a car company, if you can't do it yourself, I'd be looking to buy a little car company that could maybe do something on behalf of yourself.

If you...

you know, if you were BMW and you stopped making the Z4, why couldn't you buy a Wiesmann and buy Wiesmann and say, well, we'll do 2000 Wiesmanns a year or something.

I think that we're going to see some interesting relationships emerge from this, but it's a positive story because I round off what Neil said.

I think when we started doing these podcasts under a different guise many years ago, we were, we felt we were absolutely saying with some certainty that that's the last of these sorts of cars you're going to see.

And I don't, I think we were wrong.

I think we were wrong.

I think it's coming back.

I think you're right.

Okay.