Some say that after making love, he bites the head off his partner. And that he’s had to give up binge drinking now that it’s gone to one pound eighteen to a litre. All we know is, he’s called The Stig.

There are heaps more Clarkson jems in the his book “The World According to Clarkson’

Some say he showers with his white overalls on, and that caravan makers consult him on hubcap designs. All we know is he’s called the stig

Nought to 60, for instance takes more than 10 seconds and that makes it slower than a 1.8 litre Kia Shuma. Which in turn is slower than an asthmatic pensioner running across a ploughed field in muddy wellies.

“It’s a supercharged great white, a fearsome beast, a killer, a man hunter”