Jeremy Clarkson Car Quotes - Top Gear

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Jeremy Clarkson Car Quotes

[On a Ferrari]




“I’d like to consider Ferrari as a scaled down version of God.”


[On the Porsche Boxster]




“It couldn’t pull a greased stick out of a pig’s bottom.”


[When driving the Mercedes SLR McLaren through a tunnel]





“When they debate as to what the sound of the SLR engine was akin to, the British engineers from McLaren said it sounded like a Spitfire.
But the German engineers from Mercedes said ‘Nein! Nein! Sounds like a Messerschmitt!’

They were both wrong. It sounds like the God of Thunder, gargling with nails.”


[On Aston Martin]



“I’m sorry, but having an Aston Martin DB9 on the drive and not driving it is a bit like having Keira Knightley in your bed and sleeping on the couch.
If you’ve got even half a scrotum it’s not going to happen.”


“Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary… that’s what gets you.”

[On the Koenigsegg]





“Koenigsegg are saying that the CCX is more comfortable More comfortable than what… being stabbed?”


[On the TVR]



“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.”


[On the Renault Clio V6]






“I think the problem is that it’s French. It’s a surrendermonkey.”

[On the Enzo Ferrari]




“I rang up Jay Kay, who’s got one, and said: “Can we borrow yours?” and he said, “Yeah, if I can borrow your daughter, because it amounts to the same thing.”


[On the Porsche Cayenne]



“I’ve seen gangrenous wounds better looking than this!”


[On the Toyota Camry]



“Whenever I’m suffering from insomnia, I just look at a picture of a Toyota Camry and I’m straight off.”


[On the BMW]





“If you were to buy a BMW 6-series, I recommend you select reverse when leaving friends’ houses so they don’t see its backside.”


[On the Pagani]





“That [Pagani] Zonda, really! It’s like a lion in orange dungarees. Kind of fierce, but ridiculous all at the same time.”


[On a Chevrolet Corvette]




“The Americans lecture the world on democracy and then won’t let me turn the traction control off!”


[On the Alfa Romeo Brera]



“Think of it as Angelina Jolie. You’ve heard she’s mad and eats nothing but wallpaper paste.

But you would, wouldn’t you?”
 

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[On a Turbo charger]

“A turbo: exhaust gasses go into the turbocharger and spin it, witchcraft happens and you go faster.”

[On the Renault Espace]



“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!’”


[On the TVR Again]




“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.”


[On the Mercedes CLS55 AMG]



“It sounds like Barry White eating wasps.”


[ On the Ford Glaxy]






“I’d rather go to work on my hands and knees than drive there in a Ford Galaxy. Whoever designed the Ford Galaxy upholstery had a cauliflower fixation. I would rather have a vasectomy than buy a Ford Galaxy.”

[ On the Range Rover]





“Usually, a Range Rover would be beaten away from the lights by a diesel powered wheelbarrow.”


[ On the Bus lanes]



"I don’t understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?”
 
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