There is an argument to say, there is an argument to say it is the favour,

because that sort of changed lots of things forever.

I've never given anything that's so far wide of the mark from what it's done out to be.

You know, I was told this thing was supposed to be in the electric S-class.

The most beautiful thing I have ever, I wouldn't even sit in it.

Hello, and welcome to the Collecting Alex podcast episode number 35.

First, some housekeeping.

We all want to apologise for being absent for the last few weeks,

but we needed a summer break in the way the F1 drivers do.

We are highly tuned pieces of technical equipment.

We've been running flat out for 34 episodes.

34 hours of us talking utter bobbins had taken its toll on our larynxes and our adult brains,

but we're back. We're stronger, we're better.

We are, we're McLaren. We've come back stronger after the off season.

That's who we are. That's the analogy.

And we're going to begin with an issue that my learned from Neil Clifford raised

on our little WhatsApp group a while ago.

Top Gear magazine.

Let's just decided to vote the following car as the best vehicle of the last 30 years,

the BMW i8.

I replied on the group that I thought that was utter bobbins,

and what shite were they writing?

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