Since then I’ve always driven it very slowly – into six gates, a hedge, a telegraph pole, another tractor and a shipping container. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
The story goes that Lamborghini founder, Ferruccio Lamborghini, as a So yes, you can still buy Lamborghini tractors but truth be told, they aren’t produced by the Italian supercar giant as the Lamborghini tractor rights were sold off in the seventies.Jeremy Clarkson has been chronicling his farming exploits alongside his girlfriend, Anyway, back to the Lambo tractor – in one of his articles with the Sunday Times, Clarkson went into a bit more detail on owning a tractor Lamborghini:“Today they’re made in Germany but they still look Lambo-mad.
None of them is labelled, which is a worry as all of them are designed to engage stuff that will tear off one of my arms.”Due to this, he’s had to hire someone to risk their limbs for him, which will have ended up costing him a fair bit more than the original £40,000 he paid for it.However, as a man who’s living is to travel the world testing the wildest cars that money can buy, Jeremy does appreciate the simplistic lifestyle that owning a farm can have – especially for a man as busy as “When I’m trundling along and the air-conditioning is on and there’s a constant dribble of socialism coming from Radio 4, I confess I start to understand why Forrest Gump was happy, after all his adventures, to end up on a tractor mowing the school football field.”As someone who has lived a very exciting and adrenaline fuelled life, Jeremy clearly enjoys the little things his new farm life brings him:“It’s not nursing or doctoring, I understand that, but growing bread and beer and vegetable oil is somehow a damn sight more rewarding than driving round corners while shouting.”Get all the Latest GTN stories right to your inbox! To view the Lamborghini tractor in all it’s glory, be sure to check it out over at ‘Jeremy Clarkson Has Bought A New Lamborghini (Tractor)’ by The Sunday Times. If an Aventador were to make love to a spaceship, this is what you’d end up with.”Jeremy goes on to explain that other farmer types who’ve seen his Italian tractor tend to tell him it’s too impractical:“Every single farmer type who’s seen it says the same thing. But I did count 164 buttons before I opened the arm rest and found 24 more. Currently known as ‘I Bought The Farm’, this new show follow Jeremy Clarkson as he stores away his car keys in return for a set for the tractor, as he goes about managing and working on his own farm. One of the biggest names in broadcasting, Jeremy Clarkson, has shocked the world by declaring himself a farmer – speaking out about how red tape is thwarting his efforts to farm without subsidies. For the unaware, Lamborghini actually started life out as a tractor maker.
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.”Clarkson went on to explain how complicated a Lamborghini tractor is to drive:“There are, I’m told, 48 gears forward and reverse.
And he has constructed a new driveway as it was too wide to go through his old front gate.The petrolhead described his new toy as the offspring of a love affair between a Lamborghini Aventador sports car and a spaceship.The 6ft 5in presenter said: “It’s huge. If an Aventador were to make love to a spaceship this is what you’d end up with.“Every single farmer type who’s seen it says the same thing: ‘That is too big.’ But in my mind tractors are like penises. ‘That,’ they intone with a rural tug on the flat cap, ‘is too big.’ But in my mind tractors are like penises. host Jeremy Clarkson has said he's 'terrified' of going faster than 25mph in his brand new Lamborghini after knocking it 10 timesThe TV motoring guru-turned-farmer splashed out £40,000 on the second-hand, nine-tonne monster to help him tackle his 1,000 acres.He was so keen to get his hands on the vehicle – which boasts 48 gears and 188 buttons – he did not check to see if it would fit on his farm.Clarkson has had to build a new barn because it was too big for the old one.