In the future people will want to buy real cars like they want to buy real watches: You’ll still pay a fortune for P1 McLarens because everyone still wants the mechanical deal. And for the man on the street who wants to buy a car for $5000, he’ll just buy a self-driving thing.”

Lord March was Stateside debuting a selection of his latest photographic work at the Venus Over Manhattan gallery on Madison Avenue.

He has taken pictures seriously since the age of 10 and by the age of 16 had begun apprenticing for Stanley Kubrick.

While showcasing his work he also observed how the young have turned their backs on what had been a rite-of-passage for the older generation.

He said: “Urban today kids don’t pass their test anymore. They’re uninterested in that. In the future they’ll just get a card, take a car, drive to the country. I worry that the joy, the mobility joy, has been taken away by the digital world. Car manufacturers feel it’s a real concern that not so many people are taking their test any more. It’s catastrophic.”