Chris Harris

It took a brave enthusiast to say, you know what, I'm going to ditch my 991 GT3 because I prefer the 997.

Most people wanted to be in the latest thing.

I think that's what's changed now is I think a lot of people will rock up somewhere in a car that's three or four years old because they prefer driving it.

And they don't give a monkey's whether people don't think they've got the latest, greatest thing that's just come out.

So in some respects, in the way that people have an inner confidence, they allow to be seen in public.

I think it's quite a good thing that I have always sort of been that way.

I don't look like a bit of a tramp.

I don't really care what I'm seeing it.

But

I think there has been a snobbishness and an addiction to just having the latest thing on the latest plate for 30, 40 years in the marketplace.

But I think it's gone almost overnight.

People don't really care, do they?

Yeah, it's a perennial subject, and I agree with Neil.

It's the one that seems to come up most on my groups with car people and friends, is that why would you...

I like the new M5.

I really do.

But if you gave me that or an M5 CS, I'm taking an M5 CS all day long.

Of course I am.

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.