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.
Jeremy ClarksonI wore a groove in the kitchen floor with endless trips to the fridge, hoping against hope that I had somehow missed a plateful of cold sausages on the previous 4,000 excursions. Then, for no obvious reason, I decided to buy a footstool.
Jeremy ClarksonAsking the front wheels of a car to do their normal job of steering while handling more than 170 is like asking a man to wire a plug while juggling. Penguins. While making love. To a beautiful woman while on fire, on stage. In front of the Queen. It's all going to go wrong.
Jeremy ClarksonIf the Scottish want to break away, I shall stand on Hadrian's Wall with a teary handkerchief, and say: 'Good riddance to the lot of you, and take your stupid bagpipes with you.'
Jeremy ClarksonItโs what non-car people donโt get. They see all cars as just a ton and a half, two tons of wires, glass, metal, and rubber, and thatโs all they see. People like you or I know we have an unshakable belief that cars are living entitiesโฆ You can develop a relationship with a car and thatโs what non-car people donโt getโฆ When something has foibles and wonโt handle properly, that gives it a particularly human quality because it makes mistakes, and thatโs how you can build a relationship with a car that other people wonโt get.
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