# Quote — Jeremy Clarkson, I Know You Got Soul

> Over the years the Flying Scotsman has travelled the world and been owned by pretty well everyone except my wife, and possibly Kate Moss. As I write he's for sale again, for a not inconsiderable 2.5 million Pounds. That may seem a lot for something that no longer has a purpose, even if he is Britain's engineering heritage. But he is not simply a machine. Like an Aston Martin DB7 or an F-16 fighter, he works as an art form too, a piece of sculpture. So what if you can't go anywhere in him anymore. Put him in your garden and spend your days just looking at him.

- 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)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeremy-clarkson/i-know-you-got-soul/over-the-years

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> 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)