Just a few Jeremy Clarkson quotes for a chuckle.
It [Koenigsegg CCX] sounds like the Norse god of thunder gargling a hammer.
Old Jags were all full of wood and pipe tobacco. It was like being inside James May.
Racing cars which have been converted for road use never really work. It’s like making a hard core adult film, and then editing it so that it can be shown in British hotels. You’d just end up with a sort of half hour close up of some bloke’s sweaty face.
Now we get quite a few complaints that we don’t feature enough affordable cars on the show, so we’re kicking off tonight with the cheapest Ferrari of them all.
A turbo: Exhaust gasses go into the turbocharger and spin it, witchcraft happens and you go faster.
Owning a TVR in the past was like owning a bear. I mean it was great, until it pulled your head off, which it would. One day, it would pull your head off.
In the olden days I always got the impression that TVR built a car, put it on sale, and then found out how it handled. Usually when one of their customers wrote to the factory complaining about how dead he was.
Think of it [Alfa Romeo Brera] as Angelina Jolie. You’ve heard she’s mad and eats nothing but wallpaper paste. But you would, wouldn’t you?
Listen to that noise! It [Mercedes CLS55 AMG] sounds like Barry White eating wasps.
Aston Martin DB9: That’s not really a racing car, that’s just pornography.
Telling people at a dinner party you drive a Nissan Almera is like telling them you’ve got the ebola virus and you’re about to sneeze.
This is a Renault Espace, probably the best of the people carriers. Not that that’s much to shout about. That’s like saying ‘Oh good, I’ve got syphilis, the best of the sexually transmitted diseases!’
We were brought up on a diet of drizzle and fish fingers and we built the biggest empire the world has ever seen.
I'll stop there before the complaints start.
Here's another gleaming beauty.
BPITW won 7 times.
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