Motoring megamouth and Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson turns 48 years old today.
Television presenter, author, part-time historian, quiz show panellist, honorary university alumni, would-be Prime Minister and one of the wittiest people in Britain – Jeremy Clarkson has amused and courted controversy in equal measure.
To celebrate the big man’s birthday, we’ve rounded up his greatest ever quotes.
Are there any we’ve missed? Have you got a favourite?
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At the beggining of the first amphibious car challenge.
James: “It’s a sailing boat”
Jeremy: “No it’s a Triumph Herald with a twig sticking out of it.”
On The Aston Martin DB9 To France.
And Then Your Off Like A scolded Cock!!!
“It stands to reason that the fewer parts you have on your Porsche, the more expensive it becomes. Until you get to the point where someone with no Porsche at all walks past a showroom, they’re gonna get charged a million pounds.”
Had me in stitches.
1 – Praising an aston martin: I’d rather be in this than in Keira Knightly.
(on the Ford GT. ) ” ’It takes you back to a time when Detroit was humming to the petrolhead-rhythm of the motown sound, … a time when the street echoed to the sound of dancing and the raw of last chance heroes in their V8 muscle cars, racing… between the lights.’’
..AND ON THAT BOMBSHELL
“about as much good as a snooze button on a smoke alarm”
‘That’s not a car that’s just pornography’- Said about the new Aston Martin DB9
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When they take a trip to the north pole
“Please do not write to us about drink driving because I’m not driving I’m sailing”
either when he says:
1. WOW in a really sarcastic way
2. having a small vauxhall is like having a small tumor