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And yet he has Porsches all over his very own "greatest cars" list... including the 356, the original 911, the 928, the 944 Turbo, and the 996 turbo near the top of the list.
I understand his point, though. He has immense respect for what a Porsche is, he just doesn't feel anything for them. I wonder if he is just compensating for the fact that he (apparently) cannot drive a 911 well?
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Best show crew since Monty Python. British, of course. They could probably have debated any topic and being successful.
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12-02-2007, 11:26 PM
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Just to keep you entertained here is a Clarkson comment about the Cayenne and in case you didn't know Lurpak make butter...
"What was Porsche thinking of? An SUV off-roader? That’s like the board of directors at Lurpak deciding to branch out into video recorders" He goes on... "It really is absolutely hideous. They’ve obviously spent much time and effort giving it the Porsche family nose, but this is like fitting Meg Ryan’s conk on the front of a buffalo."
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I've never seen that r8 vs 997 clip before. Hands up who else cheered when they showed the 997 winning?
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I sounds like the audience did too - for good reason, the R8 is one of the ugliest cars on the road, IMHO, and the 997 Carrera is gorgeous (not so much for the turbo).
Now that I think about it, it seems like Clarkson is almost ALWAYS wrong. Wrong about buying a FordGT, wrong in his predictions about almost all the road tests. Come on, a S2000 over a Z4 or a Boxster?
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Why did they put the R8 against the 997S as opposed to the 997TT? It seems that that is a more fair comparison in terms of money.
Note they haven't gotten lap times on any of the higher performance 997 yet. And when they do test a Porsche it is almost always raining.
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In that drive through teh Alps with the 3 supercars, I just loved how Clarkson kept referring to Hammond's "Beetle". Cracked me up.
It really is a great show, lots of interesting cars and the hosts have great dynamics. Sure makes all the other car shows look lame... counting cupholders in minivans.
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yeah, really, it's not like Porsche has any experience racing in the dirt/gravel. 
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Clarkson- "Hammond, how's your Beetle?"
Hammond= "good, how's your Audi?" It's those type of exchanges that keep me addicted to this show.
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12-03-2007, 07:50 AM
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Actually when you read the rest of the article he starts to really appreciate what Porsche have done with the vehicle dynamically. He can't believe that the car is so fast, corners so well, AND is good off-road. QUOTE: "This, then, is a simply staggering engineering achievement, a car with the build quality of a volcano that will match anything from Land Rover on the rough and go home as though it’s being fuelled with extra-hot horseradish sauce." He still thinks it's ugly though... Link: http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/driving/jeremy_clarkson/article1005563.ece
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