Jeremy Clarkson: The Dangerous Ten

[TurnerGTX]

10: Noble M12 GT0-3R 170mph

"In a world obsessed with image, you can’t beat a Porsche. But in a world obsessed with time, a Porsche is a library. A TVR is the internet. And the Noble is broadband"

9: Aston Martin V8 Vantage 175mph. £51,500.

"Thanks to heavy steering, heavy brakes and a heavy six-speed manual gearbox, they’ve made the syllabub-light body feel like a meat pie. The 911 is for nancy boy racing drivers. The Aston’s for gentleman thugs"

8: Chevrolet Corvette C6 180mph. £52,595.

"This car has a head-up display, just like you get in an F-16 fighter. It’s fantastic. Whole bus queues are hidden behind the digital speed read-out, which is going to make for some wonderful insurance claims"

7: Vauxhall Monaro VXR 185mph. £36,995.

"Think of it as an Aussie from the outback. Maybe he can’t quote Shakespeare. Maybe he’s never heard of Terence Conran. But he can smash all the teeth clean out of your mouth with a single punch. That's the Monaro"

6: Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder 190mph. £115,000.

"So why, you may be wondering, am I so fond of this car? I’ll tell you why. Because it’s got orange seats. And because it is so pretty. And because when you go above 3500rpm it makes a noise like a punctured sumo wrestler. And because you sit so far forwards you feel like you’re on the nose of some giant, snarling power-crazed animal"

5: Lamborghini Gallardo 192mph. £115,000

"It changes direction like a fly, grips like a barnacle and goes like a jet fighter on combat power. At one point I saw 175mph on the clock and there was plenty more where that came from"

4: BMW M5 204mph. £61,760.

"Eventually I relocated Bob Seger but unfortunately I was approaching a roundabout and the sat nav woman had decided I was an idiot. So she told me to go straight over and then repeated herself and then repeated it again. And by the time she’d shut up Bob had been replaced with a miserable sounding girl called Dildo"

3: Porsche Carrera GT 205mph. £330,000

"I’ve been in some pretty fast machinery over the years, but nothing prepared me for the neck-snapping, spleen-bursting, hammer blow explosion of power that came the first time I floored the Carrera’s throttle"

2: Koenigsegg CCX 250mph £368,700

"The noise is hard to explain. There’s a lot of it, and in some ways it sounds like an amplified version of that sound you make when you hit the brakes at 193mph. A sort of AAAAAAAARGH"

1: Bugatti Veyron 16.4 253mph £810,345

"On a recent drive across Europe I desperately wanted to reach the top speed but I ran out of road when the needle hit 240mph. Where, astonishingly, it felt planted. Totally and utterly rock steady. It felt sublime.

Not quiet, though. The engine sounds like Victorian plumbing — it looks like Victorian plumbing as well, to be honest — and the roar from the tyres was biblical. But it still felt brilliant. Utterly, stunningly, mind blowingly, jaw droppingly brilliant"

http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol...cle1549519.ece

[anTo]

no TVR in the DANGEROUS TEN? :O

[3Colin]

His analogy for the Noble makes no sense! It's a series of

[Blythy]

fucking brilliant

[epp_b]

"In a world obsessed with image, you can’t beat a Porsche. But in a world obsessed with time, a Porsche is a library. A TVR is the internet. And the Noble is broadband"

You mean Clarkson knows what those terms mean?

[Capacious Boot]

Haha, I love the M5 one. I would like to drive one of those just to see if the car is as annoying as he says it is. I also love that he's listening to Bob Seger.

[ykickamoocow]

Im suprised the Monaro is on the list.

[Zegna]

Originally Posted by Blythy

fucking brilliant

I noticed that as well. That's our Jeremy!

[AnGuRuSO]

My God! Jeremy took the Veyron to 240 MPH on public roads! What a complete nutcase. He's really going to get a lot of shit for writing that.

[AnGuRuSO]

Originally Posted by ykickamoocow

Im suprised the Monaro is on the list.

Probably because he likes it so much, also because the price is right. Its a kind of silly thing to say considering its out of production.

[Blythy]

Originally Posted by AnGuRuSO

My God! Jeremy took the Veyron to 240 MPH on public roads! What a complete nutcase. He's really going to get a lot of shit for writing that.

deutschland deutschland uber alles

[cookie720]

Just looking at this, id rather go 3MPH less and have a koenigseg than paying SOOO much for a veyron, although acceleration is abit faster in a veyron hey?

[SL65]

I don't know why he put the 'big friendly giant' Monaro on that list but I love what he said about it

[Alok]

Originally Posted by cookie720

Just looking at this, id rather go 3MPH less and have a koenigseg than paying SOOO much for a veyron, although acceleration is abit faster in a veyron hey?

I am expectingng you havent heard of relative stabilities of both the cars at nearing top speeds...

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally Posted by AnGuRuSO

My God! Jeremy took the Veyron to 240 MPH on public roads! What a complete nutcase. He's really going to get a lot of shit for writing that.

lol you only just found this out?

i think he mentioned how fast he went before that show even aired. i think he might of mentioned it at show similar to MPH

[Buba]

Originally Posted by otispunkmeyer

lol you only just found this out?

i think he mentioned how fast he went before that show even aired. i think he might of mentioned it at show similar to MPH

And again, I very much doubt that. Its 10 km/h faster then the car does in handling mode, and you can't drive in topspeed mode on the streets, since you will have to lift your right foot a tiny bit even on the best Autobahn... It would go back to handling mode then.
Don't simply believe eyerything Jezza writes, its Gonzo Journalism, he exagerates all the time to make a point!

[AnGuRuSO]

Originally Posted by Alok

I am expectingng you havent heard of relative stabilities of both the cars at nearing top speeds...

I sort of think the Veyron's stability at the Top Speed makes it a little bit lame, I think it takes away from the fun of driving that fast.

[donkapone]

well, in that race he said he had gone from "def con 3" to "def con 4" in french highways...

[AnGuRuSO]

Originally Posted by Blythy

deutschland deutschland uber alles

Take a look at a map.

[Blythy]

Originally Posted by AnGuRuSO

Take a look at a map.

he said across europe I provided an example - he won't specifically say an example because it'll more than likely get him into the shit, of course EVERYONE with some common sense knows he was talking about france, but they can't prove it.

And who's to say he didn't get some extra time across germany :p