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Is it actually though? I haven't seen it admittedly, but stories like this make me doubt whether it's actually a realistic look at farming at all. > 'Today the
by swores 4y ago
Is it actually though? I haven't seen it admittedly, but stories like this make me doubt whether it's actually a realistic look at farming at all.
> 'Today they’re made in Germany but they still look Lambo-mad,' writes Clarkson, who turned his back on the tractor models recommended to him by other farmers to buy one. 'If an Aventador were to make love to a spaceship, this is what you’d end up with.'
> The result is huge, even by tractor standards, he admits: 'Every single farmer type who’s seen it says the same thing. ‘That,’ they intone with a rural tug on the flat cap, ‘is too big.’ But in my mind tractors are like penises. They cannot be too big.'
> His Lambo is so huge, in fact, that Clarkson had to build a new barn to house it in. And a new driveway, because it wouldn’t fit through the gates.
> Operating it requires great care for more reasons than just its proportions, Jeremy has discovered — due to the amount of torque generated by its straight-six turbodiesel engine (775 lb ft), fitting machinery to the back is a risky business.
> 'Not that I can attach anything to its rear end. It’s all heavy engineering back there and I just know that if I tried, you’d be reading about yet another farmer walking for four miles across his fields with his severed arm in a bag.'
> Therefore, Clarkson has been forced to hire someone to do that for him. All this together means that the Lamborghini has ended up costing a little bit more than the £40,000 he initially paid for it.
https://www.driving.co.uk/news/diversions/clarksons-farm/jeremy-clarkson-bought-lamborghini/ https://www.driving.co.uk/news/diversions/clarksons-farm/jer...
I wouldn't know enough about farming to judge the show even if I had watched it, but ultimately his job with the show is to create entertainment, not to accurately document the realities of a British farm, so I find it hard to believe he's managed to do that.
- theshrike79 4y agoThe Lambo tractor also has the wrong type of connection in the back (Brits use a different standard or something). He just bought the biggest one he could without thinking. He does go in being The Clarkson, buffooning about and doing things the stupid way. But he does learn and begins to actually enjoy it during the show. And he has Caleb, 20something a farmer who does call him on his buffoonery repeatedly.