# Quote — Jeremy Clarkson, Born to be Riled

> You really could call the new TVR Cerbera heavy metal were it not fashioned from plastic. The best way to experience this car is to be about seven miles away. As it comes toward you, it's like being in a horror movie. The monster is getting closer. The Thing. The Blob. Terror has no shape. But God, what a noise.

- Author: [Jeremy Clarkson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeremy-clarkson.md)
- Book: [Born to be Riled](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeremy-clarkson/born-to-be-riled.md)
- Page: 6
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jeremy_Clarkson#Born_to_be_Riled_(1999)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeremy-clarkson/born-to-be-riled/you-really-could

## More from this book

> If you're limited by budget, don't buy a new small car. Buy a used big one.

p. 212 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeremy-clarkson/born-to-be-riled/if-youre-limited.md)

> Then there's power. There was a time when people cooed over Ferraris that developed 200 horsepower, whereas today 2.0 litre Escorts can manage that. It's almost impossible to buy a car that won't do a hundred. (If you really want one, various Mercedes diesels make a pretty good stab at it.) Then there's the environment. The Volkswagen Beetle could kill a rain forest at 400 paces whereas today's Golf trundles around with tulips coming out of its exhaust. The gas coming out of a Saab is actually cleaner than the air that went in. That's true, that is.

p. 21 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeremy-clarkson/born-to-be-riled/then-theres-power.md)

> Now that's contentious stuff. You can say a car manufacturer's new product is a waste of the world's resources and they'll do nothing. You can liken it to a cup of cold sick and refuse to test it, saying it's more boring than dying, and still they won't react. But call a car dangerous and whoa, what's this? A writ? Blimey.

p. 194 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeremy-clarkson/born-to-be-riled/now-thats-contentious.md)