Chris Harris

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.

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.