Neil Clifford, the CEO of Kurt Geiger and a co-host of the The Car Podcast with Chris Harris and Friends, has admitted it took him two months to spot a feature on one of his favourite cars
A multi-millionaire CEO and car obsessive has shared the “favourite” car he owns – admitting it took him two months to realise its feature.
Neil Clifford, the boss of fashion brand Kurt Geiger, recently made the confession on The Car Podcast, which he hosts alongside Chris Harris, Manish Pandey, and Chris Cooper. He was talking with his co-hosts about which cars have the most pathetic boots.
Chatting about everything from Audis to Ferraris, Neil also shed light on his treasured Alpine A110 and a discovery he had made during his tenure with it.
He confessed to his co-hosts: “One of my favourite cars that I own has the most pathetic boot which is the Alpine A110. I owned the car for two months before I realised it had a boot.
“It’s really really really true because I’d read the Autocar test and you know it’s the best car that’s ever been built since the 1970s, and the only problem is the storage. But I could only find the back boot.”
“And then it took me a couple of months to realise there is a front boot. When you open it up it’s clearly very underwhelming the front boot because you can only fit a banjo in it and clearly the banjo is that useful for us.”
Despite the initial oversight, Neil was full of praise for a car that’s been praised from top to toe and corner to corner for its handling since hitting the roads in the late-2010s, reports the Express.
Neil’s commentary comes ahead of the launch of Alpine’s highly anticipated electric SUV, the A390. However the French manufacturer, owned by Renault, has postponed the US launch due to Donald Trump’s 25 percent tariffs on imported car parts.
This setback comes amid wider caution over the future of electric vehicles, which commentators suggest has prompted Alpine to hit pause on their US expansion, reports Autocar.
Renault’s Chief Financial Officer Duncan Minto told the publication: “Considering what’s going on in the US at the moment, I don’t think it’s the right time to be spending on those studies.”
Alpine is one of several manufacturers hit by the tariffs with Jaguar Land Rover halting exports to the States.
A JLR spokesperson explained: “The USA is an important market for JLR’s luxury brands. As we work to address the new trading terms with our business partners, we are enacting our short-term actions including a shipment pause in April, as we develop our mid to longer-term plans.”
