{"id":1806225,"date":"2026-03-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1806225"},"modified":"2026-03-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:00:00","slug":"jeremy-clarkson-wants-to-buy-a-lexus-lfa-oh-my-god-this-is-just-absolute-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1806225","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Clarkson wants to buy a Lexus LFA: \u2018oh my god this is just absolute joy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cAn LFA still lives in my head as a car I\u2019d love to own,\u201d said Jeremy Clarkson. \u201cThey\u2019re just pre \u2018peak car\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Autocar podcast, the former Top Gear <\/em>and The Grand Tour<\/em> presenter admitted that if he could buy anything today, he\u2019d quite like a Lamborghini Revuelto<\/a> \u2013 \u201castounding, so unbelievably exciting, what a Lamborghini should be\u201d \u2013 and a V10 Lexus LFA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Despite not being able to put the seat belt on, or that he thinks it\u2019d be more practical to have an EV because it\u2019s got a \u201czippo lighter for a fuel tank\u201d, he still covets Lexus\u2019s limited edition 5.0-litre Noughties supercar because \u201cit\u2019s the sound it makes\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"JEREMY<\/p>\n

A sound created by an internal combustion engine that \u2013 according to Clarkson \u2013 is the \u2018soul\u2019 of a car.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWhen the LFA came out, the reviews were kind of\u2026 nobody got excited by it. And then I drove it, and I was priapic. The sound [was like] a \u2018wounded bear\u2019 is how I described it, a wailing noise. Also, it had that dashboard you could move around which was unusual in those days.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought \u2018oh my god this is just absolute joy\u2019. And I got the loveliest, loveliest letter from the guy [who engineered it], who said \u2018nobody really got my car until you came along\u2019. So he was thrilled. He sent me a book on it. The world\u2019s most boring book, [but] very detailed!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThat\u2019s a car I still treasure,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

His views on electric cars are well documented, of course. \u201cI\u2019m never having one,\u201d he added. \u201cI don\u2019t understand them, and I don\u2019t like the driving characteristics. I think if you take a car\u2019s engine away, you\u2019ve taken away its soul. And you can\u2019t love something that has no soul. What else gives a car its soul? It\u2019s its engine.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t understand how engines work, really. I love it when I find a good one because it\u2019s like witchcraft. Sorcery has happened to create this amazing-sounding engine,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Photography: Lee Brimble\/Justin Leighton<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cAn LFA still lives in my head as a car I\u2019d love to own,\u201d said Jeremy Clarkson. \u201cThey\u2019re just pre \u2018peak car\u2019.\u201d Speaking to the Autocar podcast, the former Top Gear and The Grand Tour presenter admitted that if he could buy anything today, he\u2019d quite like a Lamborghini Revuelto \u2013 \u201castounding, so unbelievably exciting, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,237],"class_list":["post-1806225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-topgear-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1806225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1806225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1806225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1806225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}