Forget 0-60 times, the new metric is how fast can you turn off all the driver assist bullshit.

Lowest point in auto industry of not caring about customers is "everything touch-screen", "bits of piano-black here and there", "annoying beeps for everything" and "fake exhausts".

For the first time in my life, I've completely lost interest in new cars. There isn't a single car on sale today that I'd want. They're all too big, they're too complicated, with too much silly tech, and they're all far too expensive to own. Nowadays when I'm buying a car, I tend to choose from the 1980s catalogue. For me, that's the sweet spot.

Tech runs out of date, phones, TVs, batteries, headphones…. Everything. Cars used to be just mechanical engineering, and that’s what makes them evergreen. Digital watches will never overtake analogue. Great video as ever Harry

The cost of new cars is ridiculous!

Not wanting to buy a new car is becoming a big theme amongst petrolheads

That new Ferrari looks exactly like it was designed to be a full size Lego Technic model.

Regardless of cars, it feels like we live in a time where everything feels the same. Music, movies, games, politics, anything. Nothing feels new anymore or exciting.

The tech that is available in $30k cars is not making Lamborghinis cost $700k.

I think we passed peak car around 2010 - 2015.
There's so much power that can't really be used that is also driving up the price.
It's a bit like having a stadium sound system at home. You might crank it up for a few seconds to impress your mates, but the rest of the time you don't turn the dial above 1

iPad Pro - $1200. iPad Pro with four wheels - $2,000,000. The feel of driving a base 993 Carrera - priceless.

Excellent analysis and insight.  Your words, “we never asked for this tech” ring so true for car enthusiasts like us who grew up admiring the raw emotion and mechanical brillance of cars from yesteryear.

My brand new royal enfield cost £3500. It doesn't have traction control. Doesn't have an electronic dash. It's an air cooled single cylinder. And I absolutely love it. It makes me grin from ear to ear and I could bin it and buy a new one every year and not loose as much money as buying the average, new small car.

I so agree. Glowing radiator grilles, crystal in the lights, like a Christmas tree drawn by a kindergartener, full of useless things, 2-3 or more screens, a Lotus weighing 3 tons (a Lotus, get it!?!) only Gordon Murray designs a decent car, but a mortal one can't buy it because of the price. I totally agree! The funny thing is that I'm a modern tech guy, I work in IT, I use the latest technology, but I'm a car enthusiast and no, I don't need 3-ton cars stuffed with unnecessary things. Simplify and add lightness!

Cars are depreciating because the population’s income can’t sustain the new prices.

They immediately lose 20% VAT. Then they drop to a viable market price.

When a family car is £40k + we are back to the 80s when having a new car was a big deal

The 90’s was peak automotive engineering

I work in automotive R&D. When I had the 2024 safety regs explained to me I was in disbelief, then over the last couple of years every one of my friends that I mentioned them to thought I was making it all up!
I'm convinced that they'll go down in history as a case study on the dangers of unchallenged committees and legislators. They're bringing a globe-spanning industry to its knees, with millions of jobs at stake.

Cars are too expensive and wages are stagnant.  Car companies thought they could charge $100k for EV’s and people would buy them.

Harry nails it with every sentence he says. Car manufacturers thought that high technology would attract younger generations, but younger generations are generally not able to earn that kind of money. And so, car manufacturers managed to produce only computer applications on four wheels that have a shelf life as an integral part. That's so sad and stupid at the same time.

I own a Ferrari 458 Spider, the last mid-engine Ferrari before regulations started to spoil the industry, and I have no plans to “upgrade”to a newer supercar loaded with failing ridiculous and unnecessary technology.