Watch Chris Harris Rate And Slate 2017's Hottest Performance Cars
Harris helps trim down Top Gear's 13 Performance Car of the Year contenders to the final seven, and he doesn't hold back...
Even amid the scourge of downsizing, it’s been an incredible year for performance cars. 2017 is, after all, the year that gave as the likes of the Lamborghini Huracan Performante, the McLaren 720S and - at the other end of the scale - the Honda Civic Type R.
But none of these cars are perfect, so who do you call it if you want to cut a roster of 13 fast cars down to seven? That’s easy: Chris Harris.
Here, as part of Top Gear’s Performance Car of the Year showdown, he heaps praise and gives out scathing criticisms in equal measure. Sometimes for the same car. All of this is set to numerous of shots of awesome cars going very sideways. Even the humble VW Up GTI gets in on the action…
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Understeer at 1:52
Yea. That Baldhead has done it well!!
Imagine a car show with Chris Harris, Henry Catchpole and Jethro Bovington as the presenters…
Heaven for us
And Alex in the background like:
YES
I don’t understand what they mean with the Golf always doing bad at these
They mean that the these kinds of tests are mainly about emotion. The Golf GTI isn’t an emotion car - it’s a more utilitarian choice. Put it this way, if I had the choice between taking a GTI or the Civic Type R for a 1-hour drive, it’d be the Type R, but if I had the choice between owning one of them, it’d be the GTI.
PORSCHE 991.2 GT3 FOR THE WIN LETS GOOOOO
Sorry but my inner fanboy is getting too excited. Hoping for:
The GT3 didn’t win
While of course I was rooting for the 720S and the E63 S, props to them for including the “underdogs” (Up GTI and LC500).
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