Relationship With A Car By Jeremy Clarkson

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“It's what non-car people don't get. they see all cars as just ton-and-a-half, two-tons of wires, glass, metal and rubber. That’s all they see. People like you or I know, we have an unshakable belief that cars are living entities. You can develop a relationship with a car. And that’s just what non-car people don’t get… when something has foibles and won’t handle properly, that gives it a particularly human quality because it makes mistakes, and that’s how you can build a relationship with a car that other people won’t get.”( Jeremy Clarkson, 2005) Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson is English broadcaster and journalist specializing in automotive topics and the Author of more than dozen books. Everyone know him as a host of British television …show more content…
Together with James May was the who achieve the Earth's north magnetic field on the car, which was included in one of the editions of TV shows «Top Gear». This book of Jeremy Clarkson destroy the stereotypes. Everything what did you know about life and cars you should forget. Just read this book and you will understand, you didn’t know nothing about such cars Lexus IS 25, Mercedes ML 320, BMW M3 CS, Lamborghini Gallardo and about regular Ford Focus. In this book you will find a lot of interesting information about Great Britain and its morals, about London’s kitchen and Albanian emigrates, about Iraq war, and Moscow millionaires, about such weapon like AK-47, about British actor Stephen Fry and about climates changing. Nevertheless, there is information about Jeremy Clarkson. This book is another view for all this things, when you read it, you will understand how much you know about all …show more content…
The good work of the designer. Perhaps the book would have looked a little more interesting if it has illustrations. Puzzled (and a little scared at first) series title "Reading Dyuaristov", but after the explanations at the end of the book understood. The book is very comforting for those who wanted to buy something from the represented cars brands and for some reason did not this. Each article is constructed the same way - most of the author writes on any distractive subject, usually sarcastically tells what is annoying him on this week, and at the end add two pages to one paragraph of text about the car, about is a head. The first half funny, it is full of things which is clear only for English people. A lot of names, names of restaurants and other things. Fortunately editor added definitions for the most of not understandable things, it is really helps. The second half is about cars this is not really value information. There are only technical terms which periodically operates author used constantly repeating the phrase "excellent chassis" / "horrible chassis", without explanation. The reason is the author writing personal preferences and dissatisfactions about vehicles which are in this book. General, it comes down to the personal preference of the author at the level of "excellent driving and good looking" and "Machine of course expensive and powerful, but I have a bag of potatoes it

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