Clarkson-isms...

[tony]

A selection of the big mans best...

"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."

Illustrating the lack of power of a Boxster - 'It couldn't pull a greased stick out of a pig's bottom'

"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. If you've got even half a scrotum it's not going to happen."

"We start tonight with the highlight of my childhood. It's the Ladybird Book of Motorcars from 1963, and as you would imagine it's full of rubbish really. Just endless boring grey shapes, until you get to page 40, where you find the Maserati 3500 GT. Now this for me, when I was little, was like kind of Jordan and Cameron Diaz. In a bath together. With a Lightning jet fighter. And lots of jelly."

About the Porsche Cayman S: "There are many things I'd rather be doing than driving it, including waiting for Bernard Manning to come off stage in a sweaty nightclub, and then licking his back clean."

..."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"

"America: 250 million w****rs living in a country with no word for w****r"

On the Alfa Romeo Brera... "I only have to imagine this in black, with tan leather and I'm nursing a semi!"

Clarkson on the Vauxhall Vectra VXR: "there is a word to describe this car: it begins with "s" and ends with "t" and its not "soot".
Hammond: "So its fairly terrible then?"
Clarkson: "Oh no...losing your leg is fairly terrible: this is another league of badness!"

"some say, that he used to throw microwave ovens at homeless people - and that he long before anyone else realised that Jade Goody is a racist pig faced waste of blood and organs............all we know, is that he's called the Stig!"

"the Suzuki Wagon R should be avoided like unprotected sex with an Ethiopian transvestite"

"Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary... That's what gets you."

'The air conditioning in 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?"

"The only person to ever look good in the back of a 4-seater convertible was Adolf Hitler"

(Fed up during the caravanning trip): "You aren't allowed to have a party, you aren't allowed to have music, you aren't allowed to play ball games, you aren't allowed to have a camp fire, you have to park within two feet of a post, you have to keep quiet, you have to be in bed by eleven. This is not a holiday, it's a concentration camp!"

(Mercedes CLs55): "Braking in this car is so brutal, it would be less painful to actually hit the tree you were trying to miss."

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

Clarksons 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'

"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 N**i."

"Britain's nuclear submarines have been deemed unsafe...probably because they don't have wheel-chair access"

"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."

"Now as you can see I lost the battle to have two engines on the back because of three very important reasons. One: weight. This is 600 Lbs and that's the same as having a whole American sitting on the tailgate..."

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.

"the DB9 has rear seats but no mammal yet created, not even when God was on the LSD trip that gave us the pink flamingo, could fit into them."

Assessing Hammond's crash:
Clarkson: "you can see from the tape that the tyre is starting to come apart. Now why didn't you spot that?!"
Hammond: "I had a lot on: I was doing 288 mph."
Clarkson: "What do you mean you had a lot on? I can be in the office on the phone, doing the paperwork, kids are shouting at me, wife etc, but if a lion walks in, I'm going to notice it!"

"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 animals 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"

"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."

"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 the tweed. I do, and it helps."

"you can't have this car with a diesel, its like saying, I wont 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 sports car... in the same way, I guess, that George Bush is the equivalent of a President.

Jeremy said this of the Porsche Cayenne! "Honestly, I have seen more attractive gangrenous wounds than this. It has the sex appeal of a camel with ginger pubes"

[Ghostbat]

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

I found this one just hilarious.

[toffytofik]

Good old british humour. By far the main reason i enjoy watching Top Gear and other Clarkson stuff!

Thanks for list, tony!

[HeilSvenska]

Originally Posted by toffytofik Good old british humour. By far the main reason i enjoy watching Top Gear and other Clarkson stuff!

He's not being funny. He's serious.



I've been keeping a list of my own for a while now.

*Jeremy Clarksonisms "...if I see a man looking good in a pair of trousers, I know what hell he’s been through to find them. This can only mean his life is empty, shallow, pointless, and that he’s vain and possibly homosexual." "...as I’ve explained many times, the only person who ever looked good in the back of a convertible was Hitler." "So what of the International Space Station? Well, so far as I can tell, it’s nothing more than a ramshackle garage where astronauts spend their days fixing bits of equipment that have gone wrong. What’s it for? I’m afraid I haven’t a clue." "In fact the only thing I loved more than physics was chemistry, because we could put acid in one another’s pockets and make bombs. No, really. Put a tiny piece of sodium in a bit of water and you had a fizz that could blow up another boy’s homework. Put a lump of the stuff into a filled sink and you could take half of Derbyshire off the map. I used to sprinkle it in the teacher’s hair and hope for rain."

[RC45]

Tiff on Clarkson:

"That gorilla with the Kevin Keegan hairdo".

Pretty much sums it up - JC's humour is barely funny on his best day, and he hasn't had many...

*and before anyone goes off about "you dont understand British humour etc etc" I grew up on "British humour"... and then grew out of it *

[tony]

Originally Posted by RC45 Tiff on Clarkson: "That gorilla with the Kevin Keegan hairdo".

You can't say that about King Kevs do!

[gigdy]

Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys!!!

[Dendroica]

"I would rather be in that, than in Keira Knightley."

And while not an actual single line, last seasons Reventon (pronounced with a "b") sequence was very good. That car will get you a lot of "badge."

[Pokiou]

Originally Posted by RC45 Tiff on Clarkson: "That gorilla with the Kevin Keegan hairdo". Pretty much sums it up - JC's humour is barely funny on his best day, and he hasn't had many... *and before anyone goes off about "you dont understand British humour etc etc" I grew up on "British humour"... and then grew out of it *

you hate clarkson.. that renders your input worthless lol

[RC45]

Originally Posted by Pokiou you hate clarkson.. that renders your input worthless lol

About as worthless as clarksons inane drivel that does as poor a job of imitating humourous prose, as the health and safety council does at making anything safe

[79TA]

Originally Posted by Pokiou you hate clarkson.. that renders your input worthless lol

You know, making a conclusion contrary to your own or having plain bias in no way completely invalidates a starement.



At any rate, some of those are pretty great quips.

[fordgt84]

hehe these are my favourite

clarkson on BMW M3 CSL: think of it as a bmw with bulimia... i suppose if you brimmed the tank right to the top, it would find that an affront to its weight saving program and would simply vomit it all out again

clarkson on dodge viper: it's as stupid and as wonderful as owning a pet elephant

[Mattk]

You know, making a conclusion contrary to your own or having plain bias in no way completely invalidates a starement.

Jeremy Clarkson would disagree.

[79TA]

and has been proven wrong on quite a few occasions

[MidEngine4Life]

"...TT drivers, or titties as I like to call them..."