# Quote — Jeremy Clarkson, I Know You Got Soul

> You get the picture. And so did BMW. When they bought the company they could have fitted a new body to one of their 7 Series. That's what Mercedes did to create the Maybach. But instead of wandering around the BMW spare-parts division saying, "What do we want?" the engineers fired up their computers and asked, "What do we need?". Plainly they looked at what Henry Royce and Charles Rolls were trying to achieve a hundred years ago, and thought, "Zis is vot ve must do also." And as a result the Rolls-Royce Phantom is quite simply the best car in the world.

- 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: 24
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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.

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