The list goes on, and we were there for 48 hours. The cars, the passion.

And they spent, I just couldn't believe they spent $1 billion developing that car.

It was called the F1, and they went for it.

The BMW 7 Series was a great car and was probably the better than the Merck by then,

but still had its shortcomings. It was more a car for a driver rather than driven it.

Hello and welcome to episode 38 of the Collecting Addicts Podcast.

Once again, you find us spread them out all over the globe. Managed Pound is in London.

Chris Cooper is near London. Chris Harris is in Bristol, which isn't that far from London.

Edward Lovett is in New York, and Neil Clifford is in Mexico, where he is not going to be watching the Grand Prix this weekend,

which I think is a quite brilliant piece of organisation.

We're going to kick off this. We're going to need a nerd subject.

Someone, well, one of this group, Chris Cooper, posed the interesting observation.

I think on the back of a new Lexus that's been launched in Europe, which is actually a minivan,

that's being sold as a replacement for the Lexus LS.

I'll call them LS 400, because that's what they were when they were launched.

But the LS Lexus appears to sort of be dead in Europe, and that was one of the first cars,

perhaps more than the NSX, that signaled the arrival of Japanese manufacturers

as a real test for the mainstream executive car makers of Europe.

So, why is it the LS is dead, and is it a shame, do we care? Chris Cooper?

It does seem to be dead, and we'll put a picture up while we're talking.

This LM, I mean, it's a train carriage for the road.

It's just some chairs being conveyed on something that might be a man.

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