Quotes from Chris Harris

Top Gear' reflects the behaviour of the motorist in the U.K.

You don't reinvent something that had three amazing presenters without a few bumps along the way.

I'm not really into houses, well other than I'd just like to have somewhere to live.

The big picture, for me, having grown up with 'Top Gear,' is that it was loved. We need to get that back. It needs to be an institution.

Top Gear' is for the whole family, regardless of gender, sitting down together to enjoy some slightly silly escapism.

I don't know much about football but I know when Alex Ferguson retired this guy called Moys came in and he was doomed to fail. He could have been the best manager in the world, but karma tells you that after that prolonged success you're always going to have problems.

I think 'Top Gear,' it's about people knocking about.

If you tried to transplant an internal combustion engine and gearbox into another car, you have to bring with it all the systems and everything else to communicate with each other. But in an electric car, it's much simpler.

The Road & Track audience is basically me, you know, the car geeks. But, we have to acknowledge that most people find that, socially, very, very boring. We huddle in corners and we talk about differentials and final drive ratios, and most people just don't care. You have to acknowledge the fact that 'Top Gear' can't be about that.

I'm not really interested in people. I just like messing around in cars.

If you mess around with your mates, you get into rough and tumble then you remember you're in your mid-40s and you can't land the way you used to, so it's great fun.

There's no less serious thing than making TV, knocking about in cars.

You think you can drive accurately in confined spaces until someone puts something like a shipping container in the way and you suddenly think: 'I'm going to hit that.'

People think the future is all about being green and clean. It's going to produce the fastest cars the world has ever seen. It is going to be incredible, it is going to be a speed fest.

As parents we all have that underlying guilt about how much time we give to our careers.

Top Gear,' for entirely understandable reasons, started to focus on its international status because it was selling so well in international territories.

We like to be involved vaguely in the creative process so we know what's going on and we have some input, but actually, 'Top Gear' is at its best when the producers spring something on you and we respond naturally to it. The more you know, the less realistic your reactions.

I think you can tell just how much fun we're going to have making 'Top Gear' with Paddy and Freddie. They're both brilliant, natural entertainers - and their mischief mixed with the most exciting cars on the planet is sure to take the show to the next level.

Unlike Fred and Paddy, I don't get many offers of work other than 'Top Gear,' because I'm crap at everything else.

You'll Never Feel as Tall as When You're Ten

My first car was a Mini, a little red Mini. I cherished it and I stripped the seats out of it and 'boy-racered' it.

The ecstasy of driving a new Ferrari is now almost always eradicated by the pain of dealing with the organisation.