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Panda
2nd July 2008, 12:00 PM
Don't know if this has already been circulated, but it brought a smile to my face! :D


Quotes from Jeremy Clarkson, writer and presenter of Top Gear
"I'm sorry, but having a DB9 on the drive and not driving it is a bit like having Keira Knightley in your bed and sleeping on the couch."
"... the last time someone was as wrong as you, was when a politician stepped off an aeroplane in 1939 waving a piece of paper in the air saying there will be no war with Germany "
Illustrating the lack of power of a Boxster: "It couldn't pull a greased stick out of a pig's bottom"
On the Vauxhall Vectra VXR: "there is a word to describe this car: it begins with 's' and ends with 't' and it isn't soot
"The Suzuki Wagon R should be avoided like unprotected sex with an Ethiopian transvestite"
"The air conditioning in a Lambos used to be an asthmatic sitting in the dashboard blowing at you through a straw."
"Koenigsegg are saying that the CCX is more comfortable. More comfortable than what... BEING STABBED?"
"This is the Renault Espace, probably the best of the people carriers. Not that that's much to shout about. That's like saying 'Ooh good I've got syphilis, the BEST of the sexually transmitted diseases.'"
"I don't understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?"
Clarkson's highway code on cyclists: "Trespassers in the motorcars domain, they do not pay road tax and therefore have no right to be on the road, some of them even believe they are going fast enough to not be an obstruction. Run them down to prove them wrong."
" Britain 's nuclear submarines have been deemed unsafe...probably because they don't have wheel-chair access."
On Mandela's claim that Cuba is a good advert for democracy: "Well Mr Mandela why don't you go and ask one of the 12 year old Cuban prostitutes which way her parents voted?"
"Now we get quite a lot of complaints that we don't feature enough affordable cars on the show......so we'll kick off tonight with the cheapest Ferrari of them all!"
On the Lotus Elise: "This car is more fun than the entire French air force crashing into a firework factory."
"Sure it's quiet, for a diesel. But that's like being well-behaved...for a murderer."
"I don't often agree with the RSPCA as I believe it is an animal's duty to be on my plate at supper time."
"There are footballers wives that would be happy with this quality of stitching... on their face."
"Much more of a hoot to drive than you might imagine. Think of it if you like, as a librarian with a G-string under her tweed pants. I do, and it helps."
"You cannot have this car with a diesel. Its like saying, I won't go to Stringfellows tonight, I'll get my mum to give me a lapdance, she's a woman!"
"Tonight, the new Viper, which is the American equivalent of a sportscar... in the same way, I guess, that George Bush is the equivalent of a President."
On the Porsche Cayenne: "Honestly, I have seen more attractive gangrenous wounds than this. It has the sex appeal of a camel with gingivitis."

Anya45
2nd July 2008, 12:17 PM
I love Jeremy Clarkson, it certainly made me chuckle.

:D:p:D:p

V8Landy
2nd July 2008, 12:28 PM
MMMM funny man:D:D

V8Ian
3rd July 2008, 12:48 AM
The man has a way with word alright, rather like saying Shakespeare was a bit of a writer ;)

Panda
3rd July 2008, 05:12 AM
I noticed he didn't say anything about Land Rovers/Range Rovers. Don't know if that's a good thing or not! (One would hope it's a good thing!)

long stroke
3rd July 2008, 08:16 AM
I noticed he didn't say anything about Land Rovers/Range Rovers. Don't know if that's a good thing or not! (One would hope it's a good thing!)

They all like land rovers, Richard has a worked defender!!

TIM.

Rayngie
3rd July 2008, 09:13 AM
I was watching a Top Gear winter challenge DVD last night, Clarkson and May had some kind of race between a Volvo and Audi 4wd's, Clarkson was carrying on about the Volvo was always going to win etc etc ( did'nt ), he said, 'who would ever want to come 2nd in a race anyway....it's like driving Buzz Aldrin'....very good.

Ray,

Ben
3rd July 2008, 09:13 AM
I noticed he didn't say anything about Land Rovers/Range Rovers. Don't know if that's a good thing or not! (One would hope it's a good thing!)

On the Discovery:

You could have given one to an asylum seeker as a sort of welcome-to-Britain gift and he’d have gone straight back home again.
Jeremy Clarkson Land Rover Discovery review | Driving - Times Online (http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/driving/jeremy_clarkson/article472151.ece)

On the "proper old Land Rover":

I do not understand the appeal. It offers what’s best described as Sealed Knot motoring, giving its devotees an idea of what life might be like if they had to go about their daily business wearing a full suit of armour.

On the TD5 Defender:

It’s rubbish: uncomfortable, slow, impractical and with prices starting at £20,000, not that cheap. But nobody has the courage to pull the plug on a 60-year tradition, and start again. But somebody should.
Jeremy Clarkson Land Rover Defender 90 Td5 Station Wagon review | Driving - Times Online (http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/driving/jeremy_clarkson/article656317.ece)

Panda
3rd July 2008, 09:56 AM
On the Discovery:

Quote:
You could have given one to an asylum seeker as a sort of welcome-to-Britain gift and he’d have gone straight back home again.
Jeremy Clarkson Land Rover Discovery review | Driving - Times Online (http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/driving/jeremy_clarkson/article472151.ece)

On the "proper old Land Rover":

Quote:
I do not understand the appeal. It offers what’s best described as Sealed Knot motoring, giving its devotees an idea of what life might be like if they had to go about their daily business wearing a full suit of armour.
On the TD5 Defender:

Quote:
It’s rubbish: uncomfortable, slow, impractical and with prices starting at £20,000, not that cheap. But nobody has the courage to pull the plug on a 60-year tradition, and start again. But somebody should.
:Rolling::Rolling::Rolling:

Landy110
3rd July 2008, 10:00 AM
Brilliant! The man has an almost Aussie irreverent turn of phrase!
I'll be pointing a few friends to this thread.

scarry
3rd July 2008, 12:12 PM
he also did a good one on the monaro.he was testing it in england....something about pommy poofters & traction control etc.it was on u tube

it would be good if someone could post it on here:)

i cant do it as i am completely computer illiterate:(

djhampson
3rd July 2008, 01:02 PM
YouTube - Top Gear Vauxhall Vxr8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE69RoNGH0E&feature=related)
YouTube - Top Gear - Stig in Vauxhall VXR8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LtKEAw2Jkk&feature=related)


Let's see this limp wristed pom open up the tapsLove that line!

scarry
3rd July 2008, 01:46 PM
djhampson....that one is good...there is a better one,they use a red monaro goes for 8min 13 secs....calledTOP GEAR MONARO.

cheers....one day i will have to work out how to post these.....maybe off a 12 year old:(

djhampson
3rd July 2008, 01:50 PM
djhampson....that one is good...there is a better one,they use a red monaro goes for 8min 13 secs....calledTOP GEAR MONARO.

cheers....one day i will have to work out how to post these.....maybe off a 12 year old:(


Its easy... go to youtube and start watching the video, then copy the address from your address bar and paste it in your reply. Thats it.

The address will look something like this hxxp://www.yxxtube.com/watch?v=3LtKEAw2Jkk&feature=related without the xs obviously.

scarry
3rd July 2008, 03:25 PM
YouTube - Top Gear Monaro (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBAdmfq6sRk)



looks like i may have done it:):)

thanks djhampson:)

i reckon this one is a cracker

cheers

Yorkie
3rd July 2008, 04:27 PM
if you read jc's earlier books he ended up in quite a bit of pain after testing the monaro, put his back out but did not regret any of it.
the fact he had to buy another set of tyres for the rear during the test says something about how he was driving it :o
cheers
yorkie