[identity profile] jim-lane.livejournal.com 2006-03-20 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
Yep. He hit the proverbial nail on its proverbial head, all right--- Sad but true...

[identity profile] acelightning.livejournal.com 2006-03-20 01:56 am (UTC)(link)


[identity profile] bunyip.livejournal.com 2006-03-20 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
Interesting article

[identity profile] targaff.livejournal.com 2006-03-20 10:07 am (UTC)(link)
Of course, the best-known car enthusiast in the UK writing a pro-car article in a newspaper's car supplement is not at all one-sided. I think the preceding paragraph is more telling, where he basically says that he likes cars because they give him an adrenaline rush.

He obviously makes some good points - the so-caled eco-mentalists are no less annoying than he can be with their insistence that they're right (and you're right, his writing style is great, though he does tend to resort to jingoism rather more than he should). What confuses me, though, is that this is the same person who a couple of years ago wrote a biting imagined future dialogue with his grandchildren about the folly of those "turn of the century" people for using up all the world's oil on things like cars and plastic bags...

[identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com 2006-03-20 11:34 am (UTC)(link)
As I said, he is an opinionated git. I love watching him on Top Gear. SBS showed the 2004 season here a few months ago, and we'll be seeing to 2005 season soon.

[identity profile] hespa.livejournal.com 2006-03-20 01:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmm, Jeremy Clarkson. Even just reading his words, I can hear that deep, jowl-voiced English accent. He really does have one of those voices that just melts me. And then makes me laugh as well...

[identity profile] tatterdemalion.livejournal.com 2006-03-20 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)
jeremy clarkson is my hero

I adore Top Gear, and have more than a few eps d/loaded, i dont particularly like cars, other than getting from a to b..

BUT i want a DB9 or a Zonda.. or both.

I want to have jeremy clarksons babies, and hopefully they'll be as funny as he is.
8-)

[identity profile] wyrm.livejournal.com 2006-03-23 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
...but as he doesn't like motorcycles or kit cars (even the very good ones) at all, he doesn't rate highly in my book. Much prefer Richard Hammond (who also presents Braniac which is just an excellent show).

[identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com 2006-03-23 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I love RH. He gets to do all the good things: Car Darts, Caravan Conckers, ad of course Braniac.