Top Gear (TV Series)

Patagonia Special: Part 1 (2014)

Jeremy Clarkson: Self - Presenter

Quotes 

• Jeremy Clarkson - Presenter : [Jeremy drives past a sign]  Map of the Falkland Islands with "Argentina's forever". That is a straight face I'm pulling right now. Straight. I will not spark fury on this trip. This is the new me, the smart me, the clever me.

• [Jeremy comments on a mysterious yellow 2CV that has been following them] 

  Jeremy Clarkson - Presenter : I hate the 2CV. I absolutely loathe it. I got a job on the original Top Gear as a result of a screen test I did on the 2CV, but all I did was rant and rave for 20 minutes about how awful it was, and I could have gone on for a fortnight.

• Richard Hammond - Presenter : [Richard shows Jeremy a map with a better route to Tierra del Fuego]  I don't do this very often but I'm going to take charge. Let's go back to Argentina, pick up the good road. We've been to Argentina, the roads are good. We'll find a way across the Andes that we can survive, and then we can head south, all of us together, we stand a chance of arriving as a team.

  Jeremy Clarkson - Presenter : [Jeremy throws up his hands in resignation and replies]  Well don't come crying to me if it goes wrong.

• Jeremy Clarkson : [explaning the reason why he chose the Porsche 928]  "I know Hammond and May think my 928 Porsche is a bit dull, but for one very good reason, it isn't dull to me," Jeremy Clarkson revealed during Top Gear season 22's 'Patagonia Special.' "See back in 1994, I was living in London and I got a call one evening from my mum to say that my dad was desperately ill in a hospital in Sheffield, and I needed to get there as quickly as possible." "And I'd just taken the chicken out of the oven and I thought, 'Well I'll take that for my mum because she won't have eaten.' I ran outside and I had a 928 on test that week. When I arrived in Sheffield, the chicken was still warm and my dad was still alive. In fact, he died half an hour later. And the truth is, if I hadn't been driving a car which could sit quite happily at 170 miles an hour, I wouldn't have had the opportunity to say goodbye to my dad. So as far as I'm concerned, the 928 is alright."