Jeremy Clarkson Quotes About Cars

Quotes about: Cars

• Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Love, Motor Racing, Car

• It’s what non-car people don’t get. They see all cars as just a ton and a half, two tons of wires, glass, metal, and rubber, and that’s all they see. People like you or I know we have an unshakable belief that cars are living entities… You can develop a relationship with a car and that’s what non-car people don’t get… When something has foibles and won’t handle properly, that gives it a particularly human quality because it makes mistakes, and that’s how you can build a relationship with a car that other people won’t get.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Mistake, Two, Glasses

• [on the BMW X3] If you are clinically insane, by which I mean you wake up in the morning and think you are an onion, here's your car.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Morning, Mean, Thinking

  "Top Gear (Episode #4.10)". TV Series, August 1, 2004.

• Asking 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 Clarkson

  Beautiful, Jobs, Queens

  "Top Gear", July 12, 2009.

• You're a car, but most of all, what you are, what you've become, is a mate. And that's what makes a car special. That's what makes a car great. You start to think of it as a person. You start to love it.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Thinking, Car, Special

• We all know that small cars are good for us. But so is cod liver oil. And jogging.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Oil, Car, Jogging

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• No, no, no. There's no such thing as cheap and cheerful. It's cheap and nasty & expensive and cheerful.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Car, Cheerful, Nasty

• 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.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Editing, Car, Racing

  "Top Gear". TV Series, www.imdb.com.

• I was reading The Mirror the other day and came across a letter from a reader who wrote, 'I was riding my bike to work when this red Ferrari pulled up next to me. Out of the window, Jeremy Clarkson shouted 'Get a car', and drove off.' What I actually said was, 'Get a car you hatchet faced, leaf-eating tw*t

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Reading, Mirrors, Car

• 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.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Car, Complaining, Top Gear

• This car is more fun than the entire French air force crashing into a firework factory.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Fun, Air, Car

• Then there’s the biggest problem of them all – the problem of being in an Audi TT when you are not called Angela. I do not know why it can be driven by only people named Angela, but that’s a fact and there’s nothing we can do about it. If you have a TT and you aren’t called Angela, you have the wrong car.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  People, Car, Audi

• When you've finished using a car, put the f***ing seat back, so humans can use it afterwards.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Car, Use, Offensive

• 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!

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Car, Ferrari, Tonight

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