Chris Harris Audiobooks

In Variable Valve Timings, a Top Gear presenter with a racing licence talks cars

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Who is Chris Harris?

Chris Harris, born in 1975, is a British automotive journalist, professional racing driver and television presenter – a rare triple qualification that explains why car enthusiasts trust him. He has served as reviewer, writer and editor across the motoring press, including Evo, Autocar and Jalopnik, presented series through NBCSN and DRIVE, and built his own YouTube operation, Chris Harris on Cars, producing and filming reviews with Neil Carey. Then came the biggest gig of all: from 2017 to 2022 he was one of the three main presenters of Top Gear, having appeared regularly through the 2016 series.

What sets Harris apart in a crowded field is the racing licence. He does not merely describe cars; he competes in them, and that professional driver’s understanding underpins everything he says about a machine. In 2016 his web series moved from YouTube to the official Top Gear website and launched on BBC America – confirmation that his independent work had outgrown its corner of the internet.

Chris Harris in audiobooks

Our catalogue carries Variable Valve Timings, a title only a true engine obsessive would choose, and Harris in audio makes immediate sense: he has spent his career talking about cars, on screen and online, and the voice-led format is his natural register. Car writing lives or dies on enthusiasm and authority, and he owns both – the journalist’s eye and the racer’s hands.

For UK listeners, especially anyone who knows him from Top Gear, this is an easy recommendation within its lane: motoring passion delivered by one of the country’s most credentialled car communicators. It is niche in subject, universal in energy, and ideally listened to – where else – on the road.