# Quote — Jeremy Clarkson, I Know You Got Soul

> In order for a car to have personality, an X factor, the company that makes it must be able to take guidance and inspiration from one man, the man who started the company in the first place. This did not happen with the car outside my window, which was undoubtedly built in a jungle clearing by a company that makes cars to make money. No one began Proton or Hyundai or Daewoo because they harboured a dream of making something extraordinary or special. They are just enormous engineering and construction conglomerates that have been told by their respective governments to make cars so that the locals can get off their oxen and get modern.

- Author: [Jeremy Clarkson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeremy-clarkson.md)
- Book: [I Know You Got Soul](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeremy-clarkson/i-know-you-got-soul.md)
- Page: 18
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jeremy_Clarkson#I_Know_You_Got_Soul_(2004)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeremy-clarkson/i-know-you-got-soul/in-order-for

## More from this book

> It's no more daunting in there than in a Georgian drawing room. You sit on a supremely comfortable chair- it'd be even better if it were a wingback, I'm surprised it's not- overlooking acres of leather and wood. You're never tempted, as you are in a Maybach, to push a button just to find out what it does. And then having to spend the rest of the journey trying to find which button undoes whatever the first button did. This makes for a hugely relaxing drive. So relaxing, in fact, that you sometimes forget that you're in a car. I did.

p. 25 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeremy-clarkson/i-know-you-got-soul/its-no-more.md)

> Small boys everywhere know that in a fight between Superman, James Bond and the Terminator, James Bond would win. Well, it's the same story in Star Wars. In a fight between the Enterprise, Stingray, Thunderbird 2 and the Millennium Falcon, the Falcon would reign supreme. It just would. The end.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeremy-clarkson/i-know-you-got-soul/small-boys-everywhere.md)

> The Flying Scotsman was the first train, ever, to do 100 MPH. 147 tons doing the ton.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeremy-clarkson/i-know-you-got-soul/the-flying-scotsman.md)