Chris Harris
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
We've been waiting for it for many, many years.
We knew it was coming.
We knew it was going to be controversial.
Did we think it was going to look like the most beautiful sports car on the planet?
No, we didn't.
Did we expect what we got?
I'm not sure.
I'll go over to Manish first.
He seems pretty vociferous on the subject.
Stop there.
How can you say all of those words if you can't say Bentayga?
I think what this does is two things.
Neil's touched on one.
It reminds us that the electrification strategy defined by some politicians has caused a catastrophe that reaches the very bottom of the car market and now, as we've seen, the very top of the car market.
No one's immune from it.
The second thing is IPOs.
When you send a company public...
And suddenly the reason for that car company's existence is not to carry on being what it is, to be the brand it is, but to give maximum value to shareholders.
You send yourself on a trajectory that you can never recover from, really.
So I think that you have to ask the existential question, which is.