I have come to thoroughly enjoy Chris Harris's adventures in automotive journalism (
/DRIVE - with Chris Harris). He has carved out a rather fabulous and quite unique niche for himself in this modern version of testing cars and rating their performance. He has established quite a following, and in my view, for good reason. He is a talented driver, whether you like his style or not. And he has great depth of understanding in the advancement of automotive technology. And maybe not the least of which, he has a very entertaining manner in his communication. Or is it that he is so excitable? I think he is just really passionate about his 'work' ~ if you can call that work. While I'm sure there are moments and even periods, as in almost any other life pursuit, of less than pleasing or even downright difficult circumstances ~ there are also these moments, ones where Chris acknowledges ~ "I may not ever get to drive a P1 again, I just wanted to enjoy it, and not be blabbering to the camera."
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Posted Feb 20th 2014 8:00PM
Even if you're the manufacturer responsible for producing them, you don't just hand the keys over to a seven-figure supercar to just anyone. You hand-pick just the right man for the job. But even then, you still don't want to give him a brand-new car. Which could be why when
McLaren invited
Chris Harris and his crew from
Drive down to Abu Dhabi to capture the new
P1, they put him in XP7 – a pre-production prototype that's undergone 64,000 hard km (40,000 hard miles) of testing in extreme climates around the world.
